Working in ePedagogy contexts often means to work online. David Krug put together a list about 5 Ways to Work Less and Get More Done Online. In his opinion the five key points are:
To get some more information about these aspects go directly to 901am.
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The first step is done. This is a translation of a blogentry I made in my german language blog. It is about my first exam on my way becoming pedagogue. The exam was about social software and how it can support on-the job training. It was based on constructivism. Some sources are listed below, even a lot of them are in german llangauage.
You can find more sources in my links.
To all my visitors, especially to the ePedagogy fellows a Happy 2007.
If you ever asked yourself how to improve your learning skills and ever asked yourself how support that e.g. with social software read the article Hacking Knowledge: 77 Ways to Learn Faster, Deeper, and Better at the Online Education Database. Concerning visual knowledge building the point “Visual Aids” might be very interesting.
One hint I like very much is #66 Collaborate.
Garr Reynolds is discussing about criterias of good or bad logos based on this years fifa world-cup logo in his blog.
According to Paul Rand (1914-1996), the effectiveness of a logo depends on several elements including;
• Distinctiveness
• Visibility
• Usability
• Memorability
• Universality
• Durability
• Timelessness
Read his article and proof logos you see on this seven criterias 😉
In my opinion there are several very bad logos out there but I am pretty satisfied with the “red cross” for example.
Tony is asking in his Blog how peaople are interacting with blogs.
I like this question and I also like to answer. I hope his blog will receive my trackback.
Now his questions:
- Do you only read the RSS feed?
- Do you ever click to the blog post itself (as opposed to the links it provides – which would be on another blog)? If so, why did you click?
- Do you ever leave comments?
- Do you ever read comments? If so, how did you find them?
Dear guests, what about your interaction habits concerning blogs? Would you prefer to get only teasers via RSS?
Owen Kelly, Alexander Tscheulin and me set up 7 first questions to get closer to the answer about “What is ePedagogy?”
1. Definitions: what do we mean by epedagogy?
2. Background: what is the philosophical background to epedagogy?
3. History: what is the cultural and educational history of epedagogy?
4. Current work: what approaches are there to epedgagogy?
5. Tools: what online collaborative tools can we use for epedagogy?
6. Strategies: how can we teach using epedagogical approaches?
7. Assessment: what issues are involved in assessing work in a manner that harmonises with epedagogy approaches?
We agreed already to put some subquestions to this and I will try to write down my ideas in this blog.
Question 5. Tools: what online collaborative tools can we use for epedagogy? for instance could be answered by splitting up into
a) What Kind of LMS do you know.
b) What kind of social Software do you know.
Both, a and b should be devided in Open Source/Free vs. commercial Software.
If you (want to) know more visit ePedagogy.org, contribute your knowledge and see what others wrote there. Or post your suggestions diectly into this blog…
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I.B.4 HAUPTSEMINAR (WEITERFÜHREND) AEW, Diplom: H1, H8, 18
Veranstalter: Torsten Meyer, Inst. 10
Raum: Erzw 504
Zeit: Mo, 14:15 – 15:45, Beginn: 23.10., Ende: 05.02.
Kommentar: Eine Pädagogik, die ohne Mittel und Mittler auskommt – un-mittel-bar sozusagen -, ist nicht denkbar. Und eine Bildungstheorie, die das Verhältnis von Subjekt und Gesellschaft ohne Berücksichtigung medientechnologischer Bedingtheiten zu beschreiben sucht, erscheint vor diesem Hintergrund lückenhaft. Seit von “Neuen” Medien, von “eLearning”, “Wissensmanagement” usw. die Rede ist, erst recht seit eine neue Generation von “Digital Natives” (Prensky) in Schulen und Hochschulen eingezogen ist, sind (neue) Medien zu einem “prioritären Thema” der Erziehungswissenschaft geworden. Vor diesem Hintergrund widmet sich das Seminar insbesondere den Phänomenen, die zurzeit unter dem Schlagwort “web 2.0” gefasst werden. Es wird gemeinsam geforscht zur Bedeutung von “social software” für den Erwerb, die Produktion und die Verteilung von Wissen, für das Selbst-Verständnis und die Selbst- und Weltverhältnisse im “Neuen Medium?”
Voraussetzungen: Auseinandersetzung mit pädagogischen Grundfragen und mit dem World-Wide-Web. – Scheinerwerb: durch Referat und schriftliche Ausarbeitung oder Projektarbeit, z.B. Konzeption von Learning Objects.
I found today an free journal which only requires registration.
Innovate is an open access, bimonthly, peer-reviewed online periodical (ISSN 1552-3233) published by the Fischler School of Education and Human Services at Nova Southeastern University. The journal focuses on the creative use of information technology (IT) to enhance educational processes in academic, commercial, and governmental settings. Our basic assumption is that innovative uses of technology in one sector can inform innovative uses of technology in each of the other sectors.
They also have a RSS-Feed.
The past four days I participated in the third international Seminar of ePedagogy Design – Visual Knowledge Building. It was held in Hamburg for the first time and I had been in the group of students who where planning it. (Hey folks it was nice to work with you ;-))
Antti, one of the finnish students stayed at my place and together with him and all the other epedagogy Students I had a great time.
One purpose of this meeting was to form new groups for the upcoming semester-project. Together with Owen and Alex and may be hopefully more people I will work on a wiki concerning ePedagogy. There had been taken been a lot of photos which can be found at flickr.
The documentation of the seminar is available at the Me/We in ePedaogy Design Blog.
Regarding to our trip to the Dialoge in the Dark and the included Boat-Trip and some requests of our guide “Please make a snake” I found this video.