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Twitter mediated co-presentation

Wednesday, May 2, 2007

Today was the day that I drank the [Twitter](http://twitter.com) kool-aid. I have moved from [Stage 2](http://stigmergicweb.org/2007/04/26/stage-2-i-still-dont-get-it/) to Stage 6 (at least) in Doc Levine’s description of the [epidemiology of Twitterosis](http://cogdogblog.com/2007/04/26/splj-20/). I spent (most of) my day attending the [TLt 2007 conference](http://www.tlt-itsummit2007.ca/) in Saskatoon, which is about a 90 minute drive from home. During the drive, [...]

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Blogs as tools to support a Community of Inquiry

Sunday, December 3, 2006

I’m reading a paper right now entitled Comparing Weblogs to Threaded Discussion in Online Educational Contexts by Donna Cameron and Terry Anderson, published in the November edition of the International Journal of Instructional Technology and Distance Learning (thanks to Stephen for the pointer to this). When I write that I’m reading it right now, I [...]

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Day of the Longtail

Friday, August 25, 2006

YouTube – Day of the Longtail :: I just saw this after Stephen mentioned it in OLDaily today. The message reminds me vaguely of the tagline for V for Vendetta – “People shouldn’t feel threatened by the media, the media should feel threatened by people.” Two thoughts struck me as I was watching this. First, [...]

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Read-Blend-Write Web

Thursday, March 2, 2006

We’ve all become fairly accustomed to this read-write web thingy where we are all consumers and producers of information. I use the pronoun we assuming that if you are reading this, you are probably also involved in creating some sort of online content (blogging, wiki-ing, podcasting, contributing to discussion groups) or you soon will be. [...]

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