I just saw a note from someone on the forums which was to share resources about networks. So attempting to simply gather some about mobile networks in this post. There are many different networks and ways of connecting with mobile…
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cck09 – Xtreme learning part 2
Since when did learning get to be so exciting, challenging and fun ! If this is a new way of learning then more please !!! Currently whirling around in a few deeper pools this week, pulled by undercurrents and occasionally…
cck09 – taking the Xtreme learning route for now, part 1
What a fantastic experience so far ! I would recommend to anyone right now, to try the adrenalin junkie approach and see where it ends up ! Right now I don’t care how many rocks I crash over or slip…
Emptying my cup – Connectivism 09
First – logistics – they will be tagged but have also set up a new category feed http://learn4kicks.wordpress.com/category/cck09&feed=rss2/feed/ I haven’t posted my introduction yet, wanted to quickly & briefly scribble some things here first. I didn’t get involved last year…
Design Fiction: A Short Essay on Design, Science, Fact and Fiction
In a brilliant post about Learning and Debunking (How to Peek over your wall) today from Ikigai, we can choose to build up our walls, peer over them or pull them down as a result of maybe observing, interacting with…
Expectations – can you collaborate with multiple agendas / directions at once ?
Weird & waffly post warning !! Open dialogue, open participation, transparency – all these sound like great principles. Principles are great things to have except when you have to use them, then you have to find ways of moving through…
Day 1: 30 days to be a better martial artist and person
I posted this morning but decided to delete it, thought it would be better to do when I have actually achieved some of the things I mentioned. I have just completed day 1 of Urban Samurai’s challenge “For the next…
Virtual communities, relationships and being somewhere different
Self Control First a bit about self-control which is not related to the rest of the post but I saw this and feel the need to… So, according to an article in THE “Tough situations in which students have to…
Martial Arts wikis
Why? Yossi Sheriff asked “Why we need a martial arts wiki in addition to wikipedia?” His post explains that they found they needed an alternative, additional method for their specific research, some issues with copyright of non-textual media types and…
Taekwondo slipped, but carrying on with the fitness and a short note about open GSM
Haven’t been to tkd for over a week and not going to get there this weekend either. However on the plus side I have been practising some forms, kicking. My new poomsae (pattern) to learn is Taeguk Oh Jang ,…
Community Action initiative from Elgg, getting the best deal for users and developers
Brett has asked and started up a great initiative at Elgg recently “How can the Elgg developers enhance their interactions with Elgg users? Comments, questions, and discussions encouraged!!” There are two fantastic threads already one on ideas how developers can…
Communities, networks and arguing about arguing
A couple of projects I’m involved with have had various initiatives over the past few years and in fact my organisation has been created to support connecting services amongst other things. One of the projects is where a number of…
Your friendship has been deleted…
There was a friendship??? In one of the collaboration tools I have worked with, in the back end, it had defined connections as friends similar to Facebook, Twitter, Friendfeed friends and had that message showing as default for when someone removed…
Community registration form and communication preferences
Just a quick afterthought from yesterday’s post. Maybe prior to joining a community you could opt in or opt out of communication preferences with one question – similar in principle to when you fill in a registration/account form for anything…
More on communities and quick SMS-web update
I was so completely impressed by Robert Kraut’s presentation that I delved down further – maybe I have been asleep and everyone has been talking about these for several years, but its amazing to find project/s that have looked into…
Designing online communities, interesting seminar from Robert Kraut
I’ve just been watching this seminar from Robert Kraut, Professor of Human-Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon University. I found it very interesting, especially his research looking at behaviours of newcomers and their interaction with other members. They tested a hypothesis of expected…
Inhabiting the same spaces as people who make you feel uncomfortable
It can happen all the time offline – at social events, travelling on public transport, also online too. We naturally have people that we feel more at ease with than others for loads of completely valid reasons. If the sense…
Inclusion – collaborating whether you’re present or not
Yes, I have heard of asynchronous communication! I was asked today about using static content and online collaborative spaces (how exactly do you collaborate in a space, anyway – team spaces, group spaces, community spaces and why are they spaces…
