Tag: youtube

My new project: Thinking in public

Jun 21, 2021

in Learning

channel, learning, personal information management, personal knowledge management, personal learning environment, pim, PKM, ple, video, youtube

What would a serious approach to knowledge work and academic productivity look like? How do knowledge workers manage information as part of a framework for turning it into something valuable? These are the kinds of questions I’m trying to explore with this new project.
AMEE conference (day 3)

Aug 31, 2011

in Conference

AMEE, AMEE11, collaborative learning, confidentiality, facebook, informal learning, knowledge, knowledge interaction, knowledge transfer, Online identity, professional identity, social interaction, social networks, youtube

Today was the final day of AMEE 2011. Here are the notes I took. The influence of social networks on students’ learning J Hommes Collaborative learning is supposed to facilitate interaction and it’s impact on student learning Difficult to quantify the role of informal learning Informal social interaction: behaviour is the result of interactions and…
Notes on podcast from Stephen Downes

Jun 18, 2010

in Education, Learning, Teaching

access to services, Amazon, artificial intelligence, e-learning, educational services, ims, learning objects, oauth, Online identity, open web, openid, personal learning environment, ple, podcast, primitive recommender algorithms, random access, scorm, stephen downes, teaching and learning, youtube

I thought I’d make some notes while listening to this podcast interview from Stephen Downes., where he talks about personal learning environments, problems with e-learning and open vs. closed educational content. ———————————— Mentions Plearn as part of the opening discussion and bio. What is a PLE? Compares LMS to PLE. LMS is based around the…
Chromium browser and extensions

Nov 7, 2009

in Technology

chromium, chromium browser, extensions, Firefox, Google, google chrome, linux, the Chromium daily, twitter, ubuntu, youtube

So the Linux build of Chromium (the open source browser than Google Chrome is based on) has been out for a while now and every now and again I’ve been upgrading to the latest developer release just to see how it’s coming along. Lately, the builds have been a lot more stable, font rendering hasn’t…
An anthropological introduction to YouTube

Nov 6, 2009

in Social media

anthropology, michael wesch, social video site, youtube

I recently watched “An anthropological introduction to YouTube“, a 56 minute long insight into some of the amazing stories being told through the social video site. While there are many great ideas, these quotes caught my attention: YouTube is about new forms of expression, new forms of community and new forms of identity It is…
Giving good presentations

Jul 30, 2009

in Social media

design, Dick Hardt, garr reynolds, lawrence lessig, lessig, presentation zen, presentations, Seth Godin, TED, youtube

I gave my first conference presentation in June, 2008 and thought that it was terribly boring. I presented the results of my Masters thesis and since I’m quite new to the whole “being an academic” thing, I did it the same way that everyone else was doing it. In other words, I fired up OpenOffice…
Digital course readers

May 23, 2009

in Education, Technology

biomed central, course readers, creative commons, digital, ijahsp, michael wesch, pubmed, semantic web, study materials, wikis, youtube

When I took over the modules I currently teach, I inherited several folders containing the course readers for each subject, which had been “developed” over many years. They consisted mainly of a selection of photocopied or typed pages, loosely related, inconsistently formatted, poorly referenced, often duplicated and impossible to search. When students needed to find…
Did you know?

May 21, 2009

in Education, Technology

did you know, education, internet, video, youtube

I recently came across an updated version of the Did you know 2.0 video that was doing the rounds in 2006/2007. Did you know 3.0 has new statistics (although they’re probably already outdated) and a different visual appeal. If you haven’t seen it and are interested in the role the internet is playing in fundamentally…