Morgan's Log : living in a garden dell

After trenching the drainfield.

After trenching the drainfield.

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Too much water in the drainfield. Out trenching for an hour in the sleet. Good times. We could be lambing.

2010 03 10 General Comments (0) Permalink

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2010 03 09 General Comments (0) Permalink

bookmarks for March 8th, 2010

Andreessen’s Advice To Old Media: “Burn The Boats” – is longstanding recommendation that they should shut down their print editions and embrace the Web wholeheartedly. “You gotta burn the boats,” he told me, “you gotta commit.” His point is that if traditional media companies don’t burn their own boats, somebody else will. – (print publishing media newmedia )
Who Does What On Wikipedia? – Technology News – redOrbit – Ram and Liu identified seven specific roles that Wikipedia contributors play. 
 
Starters, for example, create sentences but seldom engage in other actions. Content justifiers create sentences and justify them with resources and links. Copy editors contribute primarily though modifying existing sentences. Some users – the all-round contributors – perform many different functions. 
 
"We then clustered the articles based on these roles and examined the collaboration patterns within each cluster to see what kind of quality resulted," Ram said. "We found that all-round contributors dominated the best-quality entries. In the entries with the lowest quality, starters and casual contributors dominated." 
 
To generate the best-quality entries, she says, people in many different roles must collaborate. Ram and Liu suggest that the results of this study should spark the design of software tools that can help improve quality. – (wikis collaborativewriting collaboration )
Andreessen’s Advice To Old Media: “Burn The Boats” – is longstanding recommendation that they should shut down their print editions and embrace the Web wholeheartedly. “You gotta burn the boats,” he told me, “you gotta commit.” His point is that if traditional media companies don’t burn their own boats, somebody else will. – (print publishing media newmedia )
Who Does What On Wikipedia? – Technology News – redOrbit – Ram and Liu identified seven specific roles that Wikipedia contributors play. 
 
Starters, for example, create sentences but seldom engage in other actions. Content justifiers create sentences and justify them with resources and links. Copy editors contribute primarily though modifying existing sentences. Some users – the all-round contributors – perform many different functions. 
 
"We then clustered the articles based on these roles and examined the collaboration patterns within each cluster to see what kind of quality resulted," Ram said. "We found that all-round contributors dominated the best-quality entries. In the entries with the lowest quality, starters and casual contributors dominated." 
 
To generate the best-quality entries, she says, people in many different roles must collaborate. Ram and Liu suggest that the results of this study should spark the design of software tools that can help improve quality. – (wikis collaborativewriting collaboration )
Patterns of Collaboration on Wikis – identifies some of the strategies that create solid collaborative work on wikis by looking at life cycles on corporate wikis – (wikis refactoring collaborativewriting collaboration research system:filetype:pdf system:media:document )

Tagged collaboration, collaborativewriting, delicious, Media, newmedia, print, publishing, refactoring, research, system:filetype:pdf, system:media:document, Wikis

2010 03 08 Delicious Links Comments (0) Permalink

bookmarks for March 7th, 2010

Personal learning environment – EduTech Wiki – Overview – (PLE learning2.0 )
eLearn: Feature Article – E-learning 2.0 – Starts to move elearning away from learning objects and modules and towards PLEs – (PLE learningobjects learning2.0 pedagogy teaching e-learning )

Tagged delicious, e-learning, learning2.0, learningobjects, pedagogy, ple, Teaching

2010 03 07 Delicious Links Comments (0) Permalink

weblogs projects started

Projects have started at Weblogs and Wikis.

More students are using Tumbler than I expected, but that speaks to some pretty tightly focused projects like Music Meeja and Red Sox Nation.

Social Commentating 101, which is making use of longer posts, is on WordPress.

And a few are tying two platforms together, either tweeting the highlights of their posts on Tumblr, or interlinking between mini-blogging and long-form blogging, as don’t panic and bizefingers.

Anyway, all good choices in media and integration. And all taking an experimental attitude towards the project – an attitude that I hope will pay off.

Tagged projects, weblogs and wikis

2010 03 06 Distance Ed
New Media
Web 2.0 Comments (0) Permalink