To structure or not

Sunday, August 3rd, 2008

This wiki course always gets me thinking.  We have such a diversity of students that some thrown themselves almost bodily into working on the wiki, while others seem to be much slower to take up the challenge.  This makes it a challenge for us to shape tutorials in a manner ...

Flexible learning with wikis

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

I have to say, it seems we have some very keen students this semester.  We got their wiki logins set up by about 3:30, notified them by 3:45 and the first one had logged in by 3:55.  Nearly 10 % of them have already logged in and it's only 2 ...

Web2.0 and Learning

Monday, July 28th, 2008

I've often wondered what the buzz is with Web2.0 and learning.  It's not like it's something so new as to be worthy of some of the overly hyped notions of what we do.  Sure, Web2.0 signalled a shift to a read/write platform from the read-only web, but we had interactivity ...

Wiki Pedagogy in colour

Saturday, July 12th, 2008

So hot on the heals of the whole EduPunk rethunking, and to elaborate for our wiki paper, Luke suggested a diagram of what wiki pedagogy was in our course. So I've put together a first draft trying to demonstrate how things interconnect in our wiki teaching. There are ...

I have a solution

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008

It seems that I got so far behind in the Designing for Flexible Learning course that I am finally getting around to Week 4 just as the course is heading into its last week.  I've just read the reading ((Annand, D, 2007, Re-organizing Universities for the Information Age, The International ...