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Article by Amy Cavender on issues and gains from using eportfolios with college students. Mentions several eportfolio possibilities in article and in comments, such as Google Sites, Mahara, Yola, Weebly, or WordPress.

This research is why I was encouraging host ambassadors to upload their pictures and profiles--they can be far more successful than I at engaging their peers in Polilogue-learning prior to the Conference.

Apparently, crowdsourcing of scholarly work requires support just as online networks/communities require assistance for 'voluntary' members to identify desired outcomes within a fleshed out change model; design and rollout processes and collaborative technologies; sometimes analyze content generated, provoke movement or change in tactics, etc.

Curt Bonk is an amazing instructional design professor at Indiana University. Here he has 27 videos (about 10 minutes long each) covering everything from discussion forums (I learned a lot!) to Blended Learning to wiki uses and applications. All free!

Thanks to Doris and Diana for sharing - like the idea of the databank of 10 min videos. Excellent subjects that are of interest to KPI! I liked the one on Online Collaboration. - Stephanie

Interesting look-see by retiring community college president Eric Reno in TX. He points out that the failure to get an AS degree is not an indicator of failure but simply that a person may have chosen a different transfer point to enter a four year college. Yet lawmakers and policy makers look to the AS completion degree as the end of story for community college effectiveness. According to this single measure, I am a failure because I did not obtain an AS degree but my sister who received an AS in nursing is a success! We both have master's degrees.

"Corporations use TWO process form, BOTH missing entirely from dowdy lazy sloppy dishonest (Harvard) universities; a) process weaves----emediated process flows PUNCTUATED with mass workshop EVENTS b) pulsed systems---rhythms of engagement with disengagement, sameness with difference, local with global---so that mere addition of connectedness is not allowed to destroy all creativity. "

Excellent course site. This is where I have taken some web technology courses and I love how they do it. Learnable's tag line: "Ordinary people. Extraordinary knowledge." Also a platform where you can BUILD a course and collect fees from it.

By Michelle M. Kazner in The Electronic Library vol 20 (5) 2002, p 395-400. This article looks at the library support that is required by the students of LEEP, the distance learning option at University of Illinois-Champaign.

Many of the ideas expressed here might be helpful as we navigate the role of digital librarian supporting the various existing KPI communities as well as any courses/new communities that might develop in the future. Part of SM's Instructional Design course 7/11.

JISC is a UK-based group that "inspires UK colleges and universities in the innovative use of digital technologies...." The e-learning program offers 5 tracks to will help teachers learn how to teach in the e-learning environment. Support includes OER.

Website for the new textbook Key Concepts in Geomorphology by Paul Bierman and Dave Montgomery, published by W.H. Freeman. This text is, in effect, being "crowd-sourced," with members of the community invited to vet the work and to submit "vignettes," which are brief electronic supplements.

Hosted by The New York Times September 22, 2011, a panel of distinguished speakers (see Speakers on left navigation) on how technology can transform how students learn. A live stream of the conference will be available here on September 22.

By Cathy N. Davidson, Viking, 2011.

An interesting and provocative read...the case studies (both of schools and of workplaces) are exciting and the writing is lively. Davidson stresses "collaboration by difference."

Content curation tool "to make stories using social media." Incorporate pages and links from social media sites to create your story. SM mentions in Curation in Education bookmark. See tag ed__curation

Examples I viewed appear in a linear format.

"Making Data More Usable with ScraperWiki," by Jason B. Jones in PROFHACKER, The Chronicle of HE. Includes a short (2.36 minutes) video on ScraperWiki, a tool to gather information systematically from websites, Twitter, etc. and download it into an Excel spreadsheet for further study. September 20, 2011

"Unlike most traditional academic conferences, sessions at an unconference don't consist of one or three or five people delivering papers to an audience. Instead, they might feature project demonstrations, discussions, creative work sessions, or other formats that build on the knowledge and expertise of whoever attends. For the Texas THATCamp (and I think this is fairly typical at others), participants posted session ideas beforehand on the website, followed by a 45-minute scheduling process as THATCamp began. Topic headings generated by those initial session ideas were posted on the walls of a large meeting room, and participants circulated through the space to meet up with others interested in similar topics. After some productive chaos (which admittedly tested my structure- and schedule-loving personality a bit) the group developed a schedule of sessions that represented not only a variety of interests but also the desire to cluster certain topics into tracks. Like any conference, I frequently wanted to be in two places at once - which I see as one marker of the event's success."

This blog acts as the home home space for the online course Connectivism and Connective Knowledge, considered to be an early example of a MOOC. The course (and this blog) were developed by Stephen Downes and George Siemens, who co-facilitated the course. Using this interface, the course was offered in 2008 and 2009.