The publisher’s site for the book. Read it! Buy it! Tell your friends! Tell strangers in the street!
It’s about lots of things, especially why social software is a better idea than traditional forms, at least partly because it lets learners choose the level of control that is good for them.
Created:Wed, 02 May 2007 15:37:02 GMT

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Posted: May 2, 2007, 9:37 am

Fascinating article giving a breakdown of the different ways people use Web 2.0 technologies. It seems a much higher percentage than previously thought are actually contributing something.
Mac users are *far* more likely to contribute something than Dell users, but this is not very surprising given the relative percentages of people who get the machines for personal use as opposed to business use.On the other hand, the fact that these technologies have not penetrated most businesses to such a great extent seems a big loss to those businesses.
Created:Wed, 02 May 2007 15:30:13 GMT

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Posted: May 2, 2007, 9:30 am

Good summary of what social software is about for those who have not heard of it.
Created:Wed, 02 May 2007 06:36:27 GMT

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Posted: May 2, 2007, 12:36 am

A rather superficial report that skims the area of social software for e-learning, identifying the stuff that appears in more popular blogs but not really telling us much more than a couple of hours’ surfing could provide. Having said that, it does summarise those two hours quite well.
Created:Wed, 02 May 2007 06:32:45 GMT

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Posted: May 2, 2007, 12:32 am

iGoogle gets gadgets. Mostly pretty basic stuff and nothing that we haven’t seen elsewhere, but very social and, of course, it’s Google, so it will probably be big.
Created:Tue, 01 May 2007 08:44:24 GMT

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Posted: May 1, 2007, 2:44 am

Amazing that Blackboard somehow managed to find their way into a Web 2.0 conference, apparently defending Web 1.0 and their shoddy and archaic approach to learner-centricity (by which they mean what most of us would recognise as teacher-centricity).
Created:Mon, 30 Apr 2007 13:37:24 GMT

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Posted: April 30, 2007, 7:37 am

An interesting ePortfolio system from NZ that is not dissimilar to Elgg.
Created:Mon, 30 Apr 2007 13:33:52 GMT

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Posted: April 30, 2007, 7:33 am

Neat system for tracking comments left in blogs
Created:Wed, 18 Apr 2007 03:34:12 GMT

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Posted: April 17, 2007, 9:34 pm

An excellent ‘wisdom of the crowd’ idea – if you are feeling sick, you tell the system. It is therefore able to track the spread of potentially unpleasant diseases without centralised control. Relies a bit too much on altruism, but a nice idea.
Created:Tue, 17 Apr 2007 07:51:53 GMT

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Posted: April 17, 2007, 1:51 am

Sitting here in sunny Wellington at the wrap-up to ePortfolio NZ 2007. 

I have attended the odd presentation on ePorfolios before, but never really paid the area a lot attention till now. What is particularly fascinating to me is how this area has converged almost completely with the social software community and the notion of personal learning environments.

Some great presentations. I particularly liked Derek Chirnside who gave an exemplary talk encompassing issues of control when running an extremely andragogic and learner centric course using many (learner-selected) Web 2.0 technologies. Also delightful to meet the very erudite and creative Serge Ravet, who sees aggregation as much more significant than integration – quite right! This was also my first introduction to Mahara, which is like Elgg on steroids (and the developers recognise Elgg as a major influence) – it has a particularly excellent innovation of views, which allows many different ways of presenting an eportfolio (whatever we think that is) to many different people. There are some big issues of identity management, trust and authorisation yet to be resolved, but things are moving in interesting and convergent directions.

Wellngton, incidentally, is a delightful, vibrant, attractive and friendly city –  well worth a visit.

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By: Jon Dron
Posted: March 29, 2007, 10:35 pm