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 Just woke up and posted a comment with my eyes kindda closed.  I am pressing this here for future access….

 and steer traffic to that discussion.

Moodle for me is as far out to social software as I go.

I am again mentioning the CollabTOOLS module at Moodle since there are examples of rss feeds and de.liciou.s tags fed into the spaces there in as many features as I can think of.  Join the fun!  Share your ideas and experimentation there.

I like knowing who the owner of the server is, in which the platform is housed.  I still don’t have a clue of who owns the information here or at the 43 places we are to populate.

Blogged with Flock

here’s the deal….

I am trying to take shortcuts all over the place…. and OF COURSE I am missing a bunch.  The bunch I am oblivious to. JA! A predicament indeed.

To start, I have the yahoo mail streamed into bloglines and I just look at the headings…. so it would be nice to have a code there about what is primary source, and secondary (as in comments about the former) and then the terciary and so on were the good stuff happens…

But somehow, I’ve been relying on the wiki to really inform myself of the structure of the course…. I am really enjoying the benchmarks…. and the questions for reflection at the end of the week…. YES, I would like to start reflections about the pedagogy of these methods…. of going out all over the place after feeds and leaving comments in blogs about getting stuck in one thing or the next…

And come back to the being overwhelmed by overload, and then cutting down to the headlines and knowing that I am missing out big time!

So I blogged using flock hoping to snatch the icon for the course that appears on the wiki, but was not able… does flock only allow transfers of images from just yahoo?

Blogged with Flock

i make it or break it

loaded and installed flock into my compu… am i hesitant!  now the litmus test… getting the picture into this post… let’s see….

yes, that is nice.

now to the blog…. hitting publish—

IT WORKED!  Now what?  Are the advantages of Flock worth its 2mb space in my laptop?

can I subscribe the whole group into my bloglines in one go?

I notice I have 14 subscribers to this blog recognized by bloglines…. I wonder if they subscribed one by one or there is some way to grab all the feeds in one go?  Maybe importing all of them from whoever has them all.

HEY, WHERE SHOULD I GO TO GRAB THEM?

An issue dedicated to blogging

Paper available as announced at my blogspot blog:

martes, noviembre 07, 2006

Special issue on “Blogging as an Educational Technology” 

Nice collection of articles about blogging at Educational Technology & Society. Some of our thoughts are there… a lot said in just 1000 words!

García, K. and Suzuki, R. (October, 2006). Blogs as Teaching Ethnographies: Blogging Out. The Learning Technology, 6 (4), Available at http://lttf.ieee.org/learn_tech/issues.html

keeping it simple

is the trick.

For those interested in responding to a survey about blogging from students at the University of Nevada…  I clipped the announcement into my bloglines blog which I use alot to gather clips from my list of blog links.  I wonder why people don’t use that feature more often?  It is soooo cool!

about social spaces, private property… and the like

As time passes and I invest more of my effort in using online social tools, I become ruthless.  Like in this blog.  Who owns this place?  How come we so readily open an account a go for the loading of our thoughts and information.  I now press my agreement to the terms of conditions of use of sites without even peeking at the terms. It would be nice if a templet was used across platforms in which the users would now who the owner of the service is, how to contact them and what kind of mutual courtesy could be extended to protect the effort of the authors.

I read a posting somewhere !!!! that a company was selling links that they gathered I think through catching blogrolls.  So that's the latest, you aggregate and others make profit from it.

So, in that vein.... I will look at my links for social platforms and see what I find regarding property.  Still, I am not convinced about leaving my stuff on someone else's server.....  Wonder if this place has a feature in which a mirror backup can be sent to my pc?

my del.icio.us

Synchronic Lectures

I am observing the design of the EVONLINE workshops and noticing gaps in my understanding.  For instance, in the openwebpresence one, for some reason having a “live” session using audio from a particular portal is a happening… of course… figuring out the time according to the gmt and the plus and minus according to geography is a skill of its own.  I had already forgotten that I am GMT MINUS 5…. not plus.

Ok, so I make it to worldbridges, double click on the sand box… and all I could hear was a far away voice overshadowed by someone elses noise closer to the microphone.  OK, so that is an effort… mine and theirs… BUT– com’mon!

It seems to me that if delivery of a message is the priority…. then the message must be secured.  So in that case, having a crisp pre-recorded message available at a particular location would have won my gratitude.  Notice here that a recording would have been more appropriate than a live lecture unreachable by the audience.

I realize that by patching and copying and pasting we make significant inroads.  But in this case I wonder if using Yahoo with audio would have been a better option. .. probably the recording of the session is not possible by Yahoo.  But hey, where is the recording anyway!

So in design, the portal offered a light technology that failed.  I’ll give the strategy one star for effort.  Much more learning is there to come in the next 5 weeks. 

Focusing on this blog tool for a while

I openned this site a while ago…. there are just so many places to update!  Lately, I’ve been just reading from my blogline feeds.  I am trying to figure out how to catch the feed to this one.  Actually, what I REALLY want to do is send the entries here into a webpage.  So that will be my project for the next few weeks.

 It is all about feeds at the moment.  I dedicated a Moodle Collabtools module for exploring how the knowledge management capacity of Moodle allows for the integration of social bookmarks.  I am focusing on tools and tags at the moment.