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Started this discussion. Last reply by Terence Armentano Nov. 30, 2007.
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Hey Mary, that is interesting. I'm surprised they don't support open source applications considering many of their web server software is probably open source (ie. linux). I'm pretty excited about our new blogging, website, and podcasting system w...
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- At 4:21pm on August 28, 2009,
Ken W. White said…
- Thanks, Terrance. I look forward to the discussions.
Ken
- At 7:09pm on March 31, 2008,
Mark Cruthers said…
- Hi Terence,
I started live and started smallo to develop a reputation. Then I had a little foloowing among home schooers and I took it online. You can start small online though.
Wiziq can help facilitate that.
- At 12:21pm on March 31, 2008,
Will Taylor said… - re using Pligg/Drigg in the online learning environment (distance or blended) -
I've set up an installation - initially using Drigg, and now using the custom platform used on my sandbox.similibus.org site - that automatically imports rss feeds from relevant news sources (I'm teaching at a medical school, so am using the Health news feeds from BBC news and National Public Radio; Terri Gross's Fresh Air interviews; and some feeds from the CDC). This imports all items in these news feeds as individual drupal "nodes".
News items show up then as node items, each with a voting form permitting each user the option of one "up" vote; with a form allowing community tagging of the content; and with treaded commenting enabled. Raw news items can be viewed as a "river of news" (all items, most recent on top), or as a table.
A variety of views are available - including cloud views of item titles - with promotion of items based on user ratings, comment density, and/or user-created tags. The interface using Pligg or Drigg would be simpler, but quite workable (I do love those cloud view pages - being a dominantly visual learner).
This permits our user community to "float" selected stories judged relevant to our community discussion, into the forefront for continued discussion.
This is one "corner" of my social learning platform (the remainder being based on user-generated content). My sense is that a Pligg/Drigg-like platform will handle this 3rd-party content well, but other approaches might be best for user-generated content.
So far, I only have experiments with a small number of selected users (some cybersavvy folks who could weather the early glitches in the system). Will go live in one week, I'll post my success and failure stories here.
- At 11:59am on March 31, 2008,
Will Taylor said…
- Thanks, Terence. I'm having a hoot testing out these installations - as an introvert in an extrovert's profession, site development gives me some good respite at the end of a long day ;^)
As things look now -
If you need a good social ratings site directly out of the box, which accepts distributed content submitted as individual items (and can accept feeds submitted by those with admins privileges), Pligg is a great platform. Very simple user interface. The provided "pligg this" link makes it easy to directly submit items while browsing. Sets up out of the box easily. Haven't played around with themes yet, there are a few simple ones available & the default one is simple & elegant.
Drigg provides almost equivalent features, within a Drupal installation. Requires a bit more attention in setup (tho not daunting by any means). This would be my recommendation if one needed to integrate Digg-like features into an existing Drupal installation, or needed to build other features into a site (such as direct blogging in addition to displaying imported distributed content, &c.). This module suite is developing rapidly, so I'd keep an eye on it, it is only likely to get much better over time.
I'm very fond of the custom platform I've developed in Drupal (at http://sandbox.similibus.org). Drupal's Views plugin permits all sorts of creative page views, and in conjunction with the NodeCloud module permits awesome content cloud pages. If folks wish to clone this, the site is documented on my blog at http://wt.similibus.org.
One advantage of a custom platform, is that it permits one to play with alternate algorithms for social promotion of submitted items, not being locked into a ratings formula. I remain a bit perplexed about the most pedagogically sound approach to promoting peer-submitted content in a community blog or in an aggregation of peer-created distributed content. Clearly user rating (voting up) works nicely for user-submitted 3rd party content (as in Digg), or for items from an imported 3rd-party feed (such as a relevant news feed). I'm concerned tho, with the pedagogical implications of user rating of peer-submitted content. I've currently configured my installation to promote items based on comment density - how much discussion did an item provoke. I'd really like to see some discussion on this point, and perhaps some other proposals re alternative algorithms for promotion of content-items on a community site.
I've put the sandbox site (link above) up for others to play around in, add content &c., hoping that this might attract some discussion that could serve the further evolution of such installations. Please mess around in it & give me some ideas.
- At 12:33pm on January 31, 2008,
Jen said… - Hello Terence,
Becky and I team teach a pilot project(f2f) for OHVA, once a week to students in grades 2-6. Along with my master's in professional development from UW-Stout, I am working toward a certificate of elearning from the same school. I am interested in what you have to share.
I would have taken your course, but we just started back up and I feel a bit swamped right now.
- At 3:10pm on August 30, 2007,
Thomas Siebenaler said…
- Best place I've lived? Denver, CO....wosrt? a trailer behind Wal-Mart. But most times, I find find the good in life.
- At 4:09pm on August 3, 2007,
Mary Hricko said… - Well, I have a learning community now called WEBTAS which has a ning site. I should just invite you as well into my group. I'll do that today. However, we can create a different LC...maybe you can start recruiting when you do the webinar.
- At 3:44pm on August 3, 2007,
Mary Hricko said…
- Hi Terence,
I am mary.hricko (how boring) on Skype. I don't know where they we put me in Moulton, but I will get back with you so we can do a test with Skype. What learning communities are you in for OLN? Should we start a social networking LC?
- At 12:40pm on July 30, 2007,
Mary Hricko said…
- Hey Terence!
I might be going to Madison as well. I'll write more about the Kent presentation to you later.
- At 11:10am on July 30, 2007,
Sheryl Hansen said…
- Terence, Hi! Nice welcome message. Thanks. You've created a very useful space and I hope to consistently make time to participate. Heather, you and Garrick have been plotting and planning for your webinar and we're looking forward to you sharing your progressive ideas and resources. Let us know how else OLN can be supportive - and be a greater catalyst for connections and collaboration! Sheryl
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Facebook To Open Source Facebook Platform
TechCrunch, a reputable technology blog, reports that "Sometime soon, perhaps this week, Facebook will turn the year-old Facebook Platform into an open source project, multiple sources have told us. The immediate effect will be to allow any social network to become Facebook Platform compatible - meaning application developers can easily take their Facebook applications and have them run on those social networks, too.
This poses some interesting scenarios for Colleges and Universities that would… Continue
This poses some interesting scenarios for Colleges and Universities that would… Continue
Posted on May 27, 2008 at 12:29pm — 2 Comments
IDEAL Presents at The 2007 Annual Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning
[This will be going in BGSU's eLearning newsletter in Sept. and wanted to post it here first to get your comments/feedback]
IDEAL Presents at The 2007 Annual Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning
Institutional Partnering for Success in Distance Education Degree Program Development
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IDEAL Presents at The 2007 Annual Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning
Institutional Partnering for Success in Distance Education Degree Program Development
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Posted on August 29, 2007 at 10:46am —
My Presentation in Madison, WI for the Annual 2007 Distance Learning Conference
Anyone going to the Annual 2007 Distance Learning Conference in Madison, WI. If so, you can check out my presentation...
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Use your blog to communicate with the community
One way to enhance this community is to use your blog space to let us know what you are reading, thinking, researching, etc. in the field of online teaching and learning. Also, If you already keep a blog outside of this community like I do, you can post a link to your blog and also use your RSS feed reader on the left hand side of the page to aggregate your blog onto your page.
Posted on June 4, 2007 at 9:58am —
TerenceOnline
I currently have a blog at http://terenceonline.blogspot.com and you can see the RSS feed for it on this page.
The developers of Ning are working on a way to link external blogs into this blogging system so I will be looking forward to that.
Enjoy the site
Terence
The developers of Ning are working on a way to link external blogs into this blogging system so I will be looking forward to that.
Enjoy the site
Terence
Posted on May 24, 2007 at 5:10pm — 1 Comment
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