http://ubershibs.tigblog.org/post/248681
Giving users ownership of the community is something that some organizations do well, and others… don’t do at all.
http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/dmal.9780262524827.161 page 16
There are two things that determine the value of social networking tools: (1) the functionality of the tools themselves, and what they allow people to do, and (2) the people who are using the service.”27 Having [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Eduspaces'
Community ‘ownership’ a la TIG
December 20th, 2007 No Comments
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Communities or Forums?
October 10th, 2007 1 Comment
The new version of Eduspaces looks great and the forthcoming developments sound really exciting.
Some Forums and Forum view observations/queries:
http://eduspaces.net/mod/forum/forum.php?weblog=impelgg displays the ‘Implementing Elgg in HE’ community blog in forum view. However the forum view seems to be the default for community blogs and there is no link to switch to blog view, i.e. http://eduspaces.net/impelgg/weblog/ which has [...]
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Reflections on ALT-C 2007
September 6th, 2007 No Comments
My intention to blog regularly at the conference didn’t really happen. This was the most exhausting conference I’ve been to, so much to see and not wanting to miss anything, so many people to talk to, so many social events. Something had to give and I’m afraid it was the blogging. As I said in [...]
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Tired, confused and emotional at ALT-C2007
September 5th, 2007 1 Comment
I am sitting in my room totally knackered and badly in need of stimulants and a shower. Got to get up for the big dinner tonight and not fall to sleep in the consome.
Another great keynote today – all teachers are rubbish when they start and get to be moderately good after about 20 years; [...]
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Blogging ALT-C 2007
September 4th, 2007 No Comments
It is 1.00am Wednesday morning and I have just got back to my room from the Wimba sponsored event at Jongleurs, the comedy club. Me and my 5 guests had a great time and the acts were great – tailored I suspect for the ‘corporate’ audience. There were some slightly uncomfortable moments when the compere [...]
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