Category Archives: Web 2.0

Must work on assignment … must work on assignment….

Posted on by
Reply

Yesterday I did not leave the house – for the first time in a very long time… I have an assignment due this week and so should be focussing on that.  So many distractions – all kinda related but still not getting the thing written.

Now I know why Twitter and Facebook are blocked at work.  You can get lost in the web of tweets and blogs and posts.

Social Media overload

Last night I participated in some of the sessions of the Social Learning Summit (started 11pm Brissie time).  I have to admit I nodded off in the second last session I was in – so glad that there is no sound or video on participants generally!

There were some unexpected linkages to my paper though, especially when Dr Kristen  Swanson spoke about the UbD User Group.  I had just been reading the book, Understanding by Design (UbD) which relates to ‘backward design’ of assessment.

The process of participating in the summit was really exciting – 30 minute webinar sessions, so you would join the room, the presenters would go quickly through their presentation, lots of discussion in the chat, and then you would go off to the next session.  Very well put together!  I LOVE how the organisers put the schedule in different time zones, so you just clicked, and your options and times were all there, with the links under each session.

Generous sharing of knowledge from both presenters and participants.

Blackboard Collaborate worked really well too.

Well – enough – better actually do some work on that paper… or maybe I should check twitter first……..

All night on the net

 

Yes – before I published the post I had to Google for an image of social media overload…. so many great pics… so many shiny distractions…

 

Social Media Course with Jane Hart

Posted on by
Reply

So – I should be focussing on two of my Masters assignments… but … I have been reading and reading, seeming to flit between blogs and online video – so much out there….

Two things that are contributing to this sense of distraction is my use of Twitter, and following the Australia Series group on facebook.  And once you start you are lost in a true web of so many interconnected threads….

Anyhow I came across a short course that Jane Hart is running on “:Using Social Media in Formal Learning”.  Cost is only AU$40 so I signed up!  Already behind – four assignments in two weeks – what was I thinking!  But would be great if I can cover it as I think it would really relate to my use of collaborative environments at work, which form the basis of my uni assignments… so… there is logic in my distracted procrastination… I think!

If I manage this course, then I would really like to sign up for the one in about a month that Jane is doing with Harold Jarche, “Personal Knowledge Management“.

Curating collecting type tools – which way to go…???

Posted on by
Reply

I have a strong habit of bookmarking things, and after losing hard drives, the idea of having these available ‘in the cloud’, and being able to share these as well, is very appealing.

So… I am confused about the best way to go.  I have Pearltrees, Pinterest, and delicious accounts, and I can see the value in each of them.  They really have different ways of presenting bookmarks, or resources that are of interest on the web.  I reckon that it would be confusing and ineffective to try to populate all of these – so which one to use??? Perhaps it would work to have hobbies on one, and work type links on another.  But there is a bit of blurring especially around the graphic facilitation type resources…

I feel like I have hit a roadblock….

Interesting that while I type this I am listening to a podcast with Daniel Pink interviewing David Allen, who wrote “Getting Things Done”.  I have listened to Allen’s book on my iPhone.  He has just talked about different tools for collecting, and for organising.  Organisation is about using a structure of what represents meaning to you.  Therefore you need to make decisions about the meaning of things, and the potential meaning could be so broad.

hmmm… he has just said – what works is getting stuff out of your head, and once a week process everything – put a system into things based on what makes sense to you.