http://sunsite.utk.edu/ Better Living Through Emerging Technologies en-us kbennett@utk.edu 2005-08-27T13:27:34-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://sunsite.utk.edu/archives/2005/08/000178-writing_for_research.html In response to Joanne Logan’s fine blog entry, I submit these thoughts: Blogging has enormous potential for research activities, but I think the focus may need to be shifted from scholarly publishing and peer review to an earlier phase of... 178@http://sunsite.utk.edu/ Interaction & Collaboration 2005-08-27T13:27:34-05:00 http://sunsite.utk.edu/archives/2005/08/000176-blogging_in_academia.html For those of us in science and related disciplines, the uses of blogs in academia is not as clear as it perhaps for social scientists, communication specialists, commentators, journalists, etc. I recently listened to a 2-hr conference about Blogging in... 176@http://sunsite.utk.edu/ Interaction & Collaboration 2005-08-18T17:08:09-05:00 http://sunsite.utk.edu/archives/2005/08/000174-studying_the_learning_experience.html The writings of Christopher Dede from the Harvard Graduate School of Education always offer provocative and deeper perspectives on emerging technology and learning environments. In “Designing and Studying Learning Experiences That Use Multiple Interactive Media To Bridge Distance and Time”... 174@http://sunsite.utk.edu/ Interaction & Collaboration 2005-08-02T09:01:19-05:00 http://sunsite.utk.edu/archives/2005/01/000165-distributed_classification.html Ulises Ali Mejias has just published a paper on distributed classification, also known as free tagging, open tagging, ethnoclassification, folksonomy, and faceted hierarchy, and associated with such services as flickr, del.icio.us and furl. Mejias' main focus is on how users... 165@http://sunsite.utk.edu/ Interaction & Collaboration 2005-01-13T13:20:03-05:00 http://sunsite.utk.edu/archives/2005/01/000163-using_blogs_to_deliver_science_technology_news.html      To deliver information about library news, services and resources to the science faculty and students at Georgia State University, several librarians developed a blog, Science News ..... This article summarizes the librarians’ rationale for moving to this dynamic format, how... 163@http://sunsite.utk.edu/ Interaction & Collaboration 2005-01-10T17:22:04-05:00 http://sunsite.utk.edu/archives/2005/01/000162-toward_a_literacy_of_cooperation.html      Toward a Lteracy of Cooperation is a course being offered through the Stanford Humanities Lab, led by Howard Rheingold and featuring lectures by Ross Mayfield, CEO of Socialtext; Bernardo Huberman, Director of the Information Dynamics Lab at Hewlett Packard Laboratories;... 162@http://sunsite.utk.edu/ Interaction & Collaboration 2005-01-10T17:03:55-05:00 http://sunsite.utk.edu/archives/2004/11/000155-mlearning_4_generation_txt.html Great article/conversation by Howard Rheingold with Bryan Alexander, codirector of the Center for Educational Technology at Middlebury College in Vermont. "Perhaps we are beginning to see the emergence of learning swarms," Alexander ventures: "We already know the precursors, in the... 155@http://sunsite.utk.edu/ Interaction & Collaboration 2004-11-08T11:26:32-05:00 http://sunsite.utk.edu/archives/2004/10/000150-blackboard_content_system.html A review of the Blackboard Content System by Dr. Helen Barrett. "I think this is a very useful system if a large University has installed Blackboard as a course management system. I especially like using WebDAV to store and update... 150@http://sunsite.utk.edu/ Interaction & Collaboration 2004-10-05T12:19:49-05:00 http://sunsite.utk.edu/archives/2004/09/000148-rss_two_interesting_articles.html Just came across these two articles, one from Summer 2003 (RSS: The Next Killer App for Education) and the other from Summer 2004 (RSS: The Web's Next Big Thing?). 2003. The implications of RSS file syndication for the academy—in particular,... 148@http://sunsite.utk.edu/ Interaction & Collaboration 2004-09-29T18:09:13-05:00 http://sunsite.utk.edu/archives/2004/09/000141-literacies_informational_and_technological.html Just came across these three projects devoted to information and technology literacies: Partnership for 21st Century Skills. The Partnership for 21st Century Skills is a unique public-private organization formed to define and incorporate into learning the skills that are necessary... 141@http://sunsite.utk.edu/ Interaction & Collaboration 2004-09-24T14:51:51-05:00 http://sunsite.utk.edu/archives/2004/09/000140-the_new_literacy.html Interesting article from Technology & Learning. "What do students really need to be learning today in order to be ready for an unpredictable future?" My favorite quote: "Michael Cox, a chief economist for the Federal Reserve Bank, predicted to a... 140@http://sunsite.utk.edu/ Interaction & Collaboration 2004-09-24T12:04:27-05:00 http://sunsite.utk.edu/archives/2004/09/000138-videoblogs_as_collective_documentary.html Jon Hoem gave an interesting presentation at BlogTalk 2.0 (slides here, paper here). "Videoblogs can facilitate practices which promote media literacy and collaborative learning through the making of collective documentaries. Videoblogs with wiki-like functions promise to turn users into producing... 138@http://sunsite.utk.edu/ Interaction & Collaboration 2004-09-24T11:39:01-05:00 http://sunsite.utk.edu/archives/2004/09/000137-blogs_in_higher_education.html Jeremy B Williams and Joanne Jacobs have published an excellent overview and literature survey of blogging in higher education in the Australasian Journal of Educational Technology. One of the many interesting articles cited is Content Delivery in the 'Blogosphere' by... 137@http://sunsite.utk.edu/ Interaction & Collaboration 2004-09-24T10:49:20-05:00 http://sunsite.utk.edu/archives/2004/08/000135-contextualized_learning.html This article, written primarily for a corporate audience, describes three characteristics of contextualized learning: organizational learning; empowered learners; and embedded learning. The latter is the more radical and more interesting of the three: "The nature of work-embedded learning provides content... 135@http://sunsite.utk.edu/ Interaction & Collaboration 2004-08-24T12:39:06-05:00 http://sunsite.utk.edu/archives/2004/08/000133-how_blogs_and_wikis_can_help_knowledge_management.html Interesting article on how blogs and wikis can help capture tacit knowledge and transform it to explicit knowledge.... 133@http://sunsite.utk.edu/ Interaction & Collaboration 2004-08-24T11:49:24-05:00