Reining in interest is sort of going OK, as I have been largely sunk in MOOCery and refining my research interests for a couple of months. Librarians are prone to being generalists, and I often feel envious of people who have a clear focus. Working on sharpening mine a bit more. Related to MOOCs is [...]
At the moment I’m registered on #h817open and #acadmooc, but turns out I’m more interested in how the thing works than the content – the MOOC angle seems to get in the way of my actually learning anything. In the latest on MOOC infrastructures, Wordpress is increasingly used in UK based MOOCs – in particular the [...]
Haven’t done a plain links post for ages. I’m trying to get away from lists, but perhaps a few annotated links can be a good way of tracking current interests. Or a nice Sunday displacement activity. Events…many are still completely unamplified or curated, but for this seminar on the power of social media to support [...]
Having just drawn the curtains on my third MOOC time to take stock. Is it constructivist/connectivist to blog about MOOCing – and not share? Lurkers, lurking and labels implies yes, but also that the practice may be disruptive in xMOOCs, as in #ivmooc (sorry guys!), while Emerging patterns in MOOCs develops a full classification for [...]
Super busy at the moment. On my CPD blog, lots of posts about IVMOOC, being run independently by a team at Indiana University. On this blog, more posts about MOOCing generally. Just how much are MOOCs CPD for the well educated? Posts from lurking at events: How to do community journalism A quick look at [...]
I’ve a post in draft on whether social media will run its course and why I don’t participate much. Meanwhile Steven Poole has written about the invasion of the cyber-hustlers, a polemic so perfect I could weep. Favourite quotes: for most of us, disruption is annoying On Coursera: for a cybertheorist, a brilliant plan to [...]
The latest figures in the Guardian state that “more than half of those with a Twitter account prefer not to tweet themselves”. I’m not quite there yet, but nearly! After my RSS feed-a-like Twitter reader gave up the ghost I stopped looking at my stream every day. I’ve given the new Tweetdeck a whirl, still [...]
Still plugging away with my #sna and #dataviz MOOCs, resulting in a total of seven posts during the month. My MOOC experience shall be wrapped up in December. One short post only here, on community management and start-ups. In terms of event watching, I had a look at SpotOn London and J Boye 2012 in [...]
Back hame tae Alba for the first half of September, but still managed to squeeze in reviews of a couple of events in my Law Teacher 2.0 series. #slsbristol led to some musing on the role of the backchannel and how people actually use it – how many #slsbristol tweeters actually monitor the hashtag, I wonder, in particular after the event?
I’ve joined the MOOC (and blogging about it) bandwagon and have signed up for Lada Adamic’s social network analysis course on Coursera, which started on 24 September. I attended an online course on community engagement in May, but this is rather more serious. I’m blogging about the content on my CPD blog – this post looks [...]