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What does an educational microblogging service need?

Category : English, Teaching, Uni, ePedagogy Design

etherpadLast time in my Seminar about blogging in education we talked about the question if one would like to use microblogging in education, what would be needed to be a good educational microblogging service.
To discuss that and share some general information we used an etherpad document. And I have to admit that I was a bit surprised that instead of just thinking about the task everyone started creating content in this document. I shared the Information that we are working on this right now on twitter an so other seminar participants who can’t joint today and other twitter users joined as well. Thanks for that!

In my opinion the collected features might exclude each other sometimes, but it is a first collection and might be improved during the next weeks.

PS: During working with etherpad we discovered that there is a limitation to 8 users working on the document at the same time.

Intermediate Results at the end of the seminar:

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Pedagogical Media Theory – Blogging and its possible relation to education

Category : English, Erziehungswissenschaft, Teaching, Uni, ePedagogy Design

Description for my Seminar in Summer 2009:

blogging

Since Blogs are an easy way to publish information to the web the use of them is still increasing, even in educational settings. The question for this seminar is how could blogging and microblogging be used efficently for teachers and learners. What are traps and what are benefits in using those technologies for learning processes? What kind of understanding of the relation between teacher and student are common and meaningful if social software is used in education? We will deal with different learning theories and how they adapt to blogging. You will also try blogging and microblogging during the seminar to discover relevant aspects for judging about the relevance and to take didactical aspects in account for future learning arrangements.

Links for this Seminar will be bookmarked at delicious with the tag: seminarappeltsose2009

This Course will take place between Apr. 7th 2009 and Jul. 14th 10:00 – 12:00 h (cet).

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Improve your learning

Category : ePedagogy Design

If you ever asked yourself how to improve your learning skills and ever asked yourself how support that e.g. with social software read the article Hacking Knowledge: 77 Ways to Learn Faster, Deeper, and Better at the Online Education Database. Concerning visual knowledge building the point “Visual Aids” might be very interesting.
One hint I like very much is #66 Collaborate.