Facilitating online communities

I’ve just started a new course called Facilitating online communities through wikieducator and so this blog will be mainly dedicated to reflecting on this course over the next couple of months. I’ve been a part of an extremely nurturing online community, one filled with role models, many probably out of intuition rather than theory. So [...]

How many times do we need to recreate ourselves?

In my last post I asked a question about edtags, and one of the responses got me thinking and inspired me to write this post. While listening to one of the NECC webcasts,  Our Students – Our Worlds, one of the points that were made  on the side was that the kids who grow up [...]

EDTAGS – social tagging for educational purposes

The website edtags.org is presented in the NECC 08 presentation from Tuesday at 11am called edtag.org: Academic Social Tagging to Aid Learning and Assessment. The difference to delicious, blinklist and diigo is simply that this site was made by educators explicitly for educators, so it is more limited in this way, at the same time [...]

Your Day in a Sentence and Chinswing

Well, it’s Sunday and time to compile all those days that have been collected either here or over at Chinswing. Matthew was quite busy and in need of a break from the break: There is so much work to do on vacation; I’m ready for vacation. As was Cristina Today it was all about meetings, [...]

Hosting: Day in a sentence

Welcome to Day in a sentence! I am glad to have the honor of hosting it this week for Kevin and am looking forward to hearing from those of you who have stayed home for vacation. If you are new to Day in a sentence, it’s easy. Just tell us about your day or week [...]

The 21 days are over

I really don’t know how many people I motivated to join in the challenge, but not many contacted me. It was the first time for me to organize something like this, and I’m sure I stumbled into all the potholes. naja Nevertheless, I feel a sense of success and happiness at what I saw happen [...]