Tag: community

Weekly digest 35

Aug 25, 2024

in AI, Digest, Education, Research

AI-resilient assessment, community, psychology, reasoning, research community

A weekly collection of things I found interesting, thought-provoking, or inspiring. It’s almost always about higher education, mostly technology, and usually AI-related.
Link: Scientists cutting back on Twitter

Aug 21, 2023

in Note

community, researcher, science, social media, twitter, X

“A Nature survey reveals scientists’ reasons for leaving the social-media platform now known as X, and what they are doing to build and maintain a sense of community.” https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02554-0
Weekly digest (22-28 May 2023)

May 28, 2023

in Digest, Technology

accessibility, Bookstack, community, free, Gitbook, github, Github Actions, Github Pages, Github Projects, Github Repository, in beta, learning community, obsidian, outline, repository, Retype, user interface, version control, version control system, wiki.js

I spent a lot of time this week experimenting with a range of software that we need for a new In Beta project that Ben and I are working on. I wasn’t sure if it was worth writing this process up, but figured it may be useful for someone else, so here goes. It’s also…
Cult or community…

May 20, 2023

in Note

community, cult
Technology platforms aren’t communities

Apr 21, 2022

in Technology

collaboration, community, interaction, relationships, technology

You can use an outstanding technology platform that will facilitate engagement, interaction, sharing, collaboration, etc. but without engaged, interactive, generous people who want to work with each other in community, the technology won’t do much at all. Conversely, a group of like-minded people who want to do interesting things will manage even if they have…
Making websites feel more welcoming

May 5, 2021

in Education, Scholarship, Teaching

communication technology, community, community of inquiry, community of practice, in beta, website

My take is that the web could feel warmer and more lively than it is. Visiting a webpage could feel a little more like visiting a park and watching the world go by. Visiting my homepage could feel just a tiny bit like stopping by my home. Webb, M. (2020). Social attention: a modest prototype…
In Beta and sunsetting consumer Google+

Oct 10, 2018

in Education, Technology

community, Google, google plus, in beta, open source

Action 1: We are shutting down Google+ for consumers. This review crystallized what we’ve known for a while: that while our engineering teams have put a lot of effort and dedication into building Google+ over the years, it has not achieved broad consumer or developer adoption, and has seen limited user interaction with apps. The…
We’re all in beta

Jul 4, 2017

in Education

community, Google, in beta, physiotherapy education, teaching and learning

I was talking to Ben Ellis (@bendotellis) from Oxford Brookes University at the ER-WCPT conference in Liverpool last year and bemoaning the fact that the most interesting conversations – for me anyway – were happening outside of the sessions. This is probably not news for anyone who’s gone to more than a few conferences. We…
Exposing the culture of professional practice

Nov 27, 2012

in Curriculum, Physiotherapy

becoming, belief systems, community, culture, language, norms, profession, social networks, values

I often forget that learning is not only mediated by social relationships, but by cultural relationships as well. To a large degree we are the products of influence that emerge from interactions between thousands of variables within our families, groups of friends, communities, religions and countries. The process of becoming a physiotherapist is also embedded within…
Facilitating Communities of Practice in the Network Era

May 19, 2010

in Learning, Social media

Amy Jo Kim, Barry Wellman, community, community of practice, cop, etienne wenger, game mechanics, gaming in physiotherapy, george siemens, granovetter, howard rheingold, john david smith, legitimate peripheral participation, Lilia Efimova, lpp, manuel castells, nancy white, online communities, online community, Online companion, online groups, online interfaces, online social networks, pdf, physiotherapy, referral systems, slideshare, Sociological Theory, strength of weak ties, virtual community

Two days ago I was lucky enough to get the opportunity to attend a workshop at UCT facilitated by Nancy White (1), who co-wrote Digital habitats: stewarding technology for communities (2) with Etienne Wenger and John David Smith. Presentation slides from the workshop can be downloaded / viewed here. Unfortunately, I could only stay for…
Thoughts on Geekretreat 2010

Jan 18, 2010

in Open access, Scholarship, Social media, Technology

cognician, community, education, geek, geekretreat, p2pu, peer to peer university, social media, stanford valley, technology

I got back yesterday from Geekretreat in Stanford Valley (beautiful, by the way) and these are some of my thoughts after reflecting on the experience. The theme of this year’s retreat was (broadly) the role of the internet in South African education, which is what motivated me to apply for a scholarship. I have to…
TEDx Johannesburg

Oct 25, 2009

in Conference

community, faimer, johannesburg, presentation, speaker, tedx, tedxjohanne, tedxjohannesburg

I’ve been a longtime fan of the TED conferences and found out last night about the TEDx conference being held in Johannesburg in a few weeks time. The theme is “Uplifting communities“, which ties in nicely with the project proposal I submitted to FAIMER last month (see previous post). So I decided to apply as…