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01 06 2005

Weblog Communities - AMTEC 2005 presentation

Posted by: Rob Wall in stigmergicweb podcast, education, weblogs

I recently gave a presentation entitled Weblog Communities to the 2005 AMTEC conference in Calgary. My summary in a nutshell:

distance learners can feel isolated and disconnected from other learners and from the educational organization, despite well designed instruction and tools for fostering community within courses
weblogs allow a blogger to express a great deal of individuality, but also for connections with other bloggers through comments, trackback, blogrolls and RSS feed aggregation
weblog communities can provide a sense of campus community that is usually missing from distance learning

The powerpoint slides and an audio recording of the presentation are available for download:

Feedback via e-mail or comments are most certainly welcome!

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D'Arcy Norman says:
June 1st, 2005 at 09:12
Great! Downloading audio now… Thanks!

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D'Arcy Norman says:
June 4th, 2005 at 14:34
Here, I was upset that I couldn’t make it to AMTEC (despite being on campus this year). Turns out I was able to make an appearance after all Thanks for plugging weblogs.ucalgary.ca, Rob!
Rob Wall says:
June 5th, 2005 at 12:15
The trackpack/pingback example from our “What kind of polyhedral die are you?” interaction went over really well, and was one of the only time I’ve ever explained trackback without everyone staring at me blankly. Sometimes a goofy little example is the best.

I was happy to plug weblogs.ucalgary.ca - I think its a great example of what other universities should be doing (and a great example of the power of Drupal as well!)
Joel Bennett says:
February 6th, 2006 at 22:27
How can I download the audio file, Weblog Communities - AMTEC 2005 presentation. I would like to listen to this on my iPod. Can you make this available on iTunes.

Thanks,
Joel
Rob Wall says:
February 6th, 2006 at 22:47
Thanks for your interest, Joel. If you search for stigmergic web on iTunes, I believe they already have the feed for this blog/podcast. If it is not there, you can right-click on the link to the audio, and choose “Save link as …” (or something like that, depending on your browser).