The idea that I am calling "follower guidance" is about how to relate with chosen others to promote good work, well being, personal growth and development, in an essentially peer-to-peer manner — it's an alternative to "mentoring".
Social software is good for learning if, and only if, the society of learners is, or can be persuaded to be, positive towards learning. But what if you're a teenager in a peer group in which learning is uncool? Perhaps we need software that expressly excludes the peer group?
I was at a meeting in Birkbeck, [...]
You've probably noticed for quite a while that many of us now apply considerable caution at being invited to join a new list, a new forum, a new network, a new way of interacting, or anything similar. Not surprising, I agree. But until now I didn't have a good formulation of why. I've just read [...]
I went to this joint LLN meeting in Sheffield (2008-07-03) because there were several people, and several topics, that I wanted to keep up or catch up with. The meeting fulfilled that and more.
Roger Clark talked about current GMSA work (Pathways and Advance), and about the need for well defined standards and interfaces. Mark Stubbs [...]
When we saw the initial announcement, it looked like a good thing to go to, as it overlaps areas of keen interest. So Helen, Scott and I had written the paper - Social portfolios supporting professional identity - and Helen and I went along to the one-day conference in Newcastle organised by Medev. It was [...]
I saw this article on the BBC and knew instantly that this would be significant for our Portfolio interoperability community. But how significant? The most helpful blogposts that I saw to begin with were
Seb Schmoller put me on to
Marc Andreessen who has also done
a followup on the same topic
Then I was thinking who to [...]
Well, lo and behold! While folks are discussing folksonomies on the METADATA list, the official conference wiki page has this
cetis-2006-conference
If you want to tag an item for a particular session, use one of these:
cetis-2006-conference-media
cetis-2006-conference-games
cetis-2006-conference-portfolios
cetis-2006-conference-accreditation
cetis-2006-conference-ple
cetis-2006-conference-architecture
cetis-2006-conference-institutions
cetis-2006-conference-unthinkable
Very nice example, if I may say so, of, not quite a controlled vocabulary, but the best kind of sort-of "guidance" [...]
Welcome to Blogs.cetis.ac.uk it says. Thanks to Sam for getting this working. I hope this will be my first serious venture into blogging. I've always had certain reservations about the blog as format and as tool. I think this is partly because I've never felt that writing something with a totally undefined audience really [...]
