I’m new to this and I’m still trying to get my head around the relationships and distinctions between wikieducator and wikiversity, amongst other things. Through my interests in digital culture and education and my attempts to get students interested in ‘open’ ed, I met this year with someone else at my university who is far more advanced along the line I’m dabbling in than I am currently, and whose work I really like. That was David Blackall, and he is teaching his journalism course on wikiversity….
I asked uncle google about the difference today and found this.. so as I continue to dabble in wikieducator as a platform on which to develop and teach my module on using corpus tools for research students who use English as a second language, I continue to try to develop my understanding of what these platforms are and what they enable us to do that moodle doesn’t… I hate the metaphors, but I don’t know how else right now to describe what’s going on in my head, apart from big learning ‘curve’ or ‘journey’…
I’ve been a bit quiet this month here because I’ve been busy with marking, but also because I’m thinking in confused ways about what I’m doing here. It seems to go like that… I/you/one gets all enthused when dots seem connectable and there’s a flurry of activity, and then there’s the period of digestion and the periods of too much going on at once to be able to properly digest any of it… and then the return, in a calmer state of mind, and the synthesis (hopefully)…
I’ve been busy in the uncourse group of friends crapping on about all kindsastuff otherwise known as rhizo15 and through that I’m now being sucked into various other examples of that type of thing, more or less structured, and I’m trying to create synthesis from the perspective of this still outsider nobody… there are days I feel I belong in this world, and more I feel I don’t or am just ambivalent… I guess the real problem is the old one…. but I won’t waste words on it here. What I am interested in though is the Teaching with WordPress course, so I’ll be forking off from here and going there over the next few weeks, and seeing how that and this course talk to one another and help me move my teaching practice to a better place.
There’s much cross-over between these courses of course, and that’s becoming increasingly explicit, and the twitter feed around TWP is very active and providing links to so many other great things… too many to keep up with so I won’t even try, but I’ll put out bits and pieces, and maybe even join in the course and dedicate a blog to it. I never know if it makes more sense to have one blog and categorise posts, or have several blogs hosting different conversations and interlink them into what is increasingly being called some kind of ‘ecology’ of networked learning spaces… I think I prefer that to one megablog, because I’m not interested in having large numbers of followers, more in having coherence and order in my own world (ha, dream on!)
Jeffrey’s post on twp got me in for real !
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