Academic support for experiments?
Catie Gynn wrote:
“Does the culture at your institution support the idea of blogging? do you have time to experiment and explore? are reward systems in place for sharing the new and different?”
She stated:
“Culture is context.” I’d reshape that a bit and say that culture is one part of the context in which learning objects and blogs try to flourish. I work at a large research institution and the pace seems harried almost by design. No time is carved out of packed work weeks just to think.
Where, then, can experiments with emerging technology tools flourish, be nurtured, shared, and practical ideas disseminated? The National Learning Infrastructure Initiative (NLII) is one such place. Since I first became involved with this organization, I have explored Virtual Communities of Practice, Learning Objects, Next Generation Course Management Systems, and many technology tools intended to enhance professional knowledge management and collaboration. This collaborative blog is one such experiment, being hosted and facilitated by the Learning Objects Virtual Community of Practice (LOVCOP).
We all wade through vast amounts of digital information every day. Any tool that allows us comfortably to gather and arrange our own ideas and those of others is worth investigating, sharing and promoting. Here’s just one example (and there are many more):
Alan Levine promotes both blogs and RSS feeds as key tools in faculty development. See cogdogblog and his work with the Ocotillo Online Learning Group.
Please share any other collaborative blog experiments going on in your institution.
“Does the culture at your institution support the idea of blogging? do you have time to experiment and explore? are reward systems in place for sharing the new and different?”
She stated:
“Culture is context.” I’d reshape that a bit and say that culture is one part of the context in which learning objects and blogs try to flourish. I work at a large research institution and the pace seems harried almost by design. No time is carved out of packed work weeks just to think.
Where, then, can experiments with emerging technology tools flourish, be nurtured, shared, and practical ideas disseminated? The National Learning Infrastructure Initiative (NLII) is one such place. Since I first became involved with this organization, I have explored Virtual Communities of Practice, Learning Objects, Next Generation Course Management Systems, and many technology tools intended to enhance professional knowledge management and collaboration. This collaborative blog is one such experiment, being hosted and facilitated by the Learning Objects Virtual Community of Practice (LOVCOP).
We all wade through vast amounts of digital information every day. Any tool that allows us comfortably to gather and arrange our own ideas and those of others is worth investigating, sharing and promoting. Here’s just one example (and there are many more):
Alan Levine promotes both blogs and RSS feeds as key tools in faculty development. See cogdogblog and his work with the Ocotillo Online Learning Group.
Please share any other collaborative blog experiments going on in your institution.
1 Comments:
Catie, that is a rather broad question... I woudl say ours, and most institutions answer this by supporting innovation-- it is just carried out in different levels and amounts.
Thanks for the nice plugs for my work, but I am just one among many dabbling or fully immersed in the blog world. It is a continually, exciting way to connect like minded (or not) people in a loose manner, and pretty much led to some interesting work with my friends in Canada.
However, do not assume that all of Maricopa is a blogging. I cannot thik of more than 10 maybe 12 that I know of, and more than half are ones I set up for others. Our folks are pretty up to their ears in classroom and course management technology, and there are but a handful of innovators who have stepped in. A few demo-ed their stuff last February:
http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/ocotillo/olg/notes.php?yr=0304&id=6
But I think to go into blogging detail about weblogs in general is getting away from focusing on objects.
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