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Food Sign-Up Sheet for Teams 3&4

By TRACY THOMPSON on April 13, 2010 5:06 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks

Teams 3 & 4 - Please go into the google spreadsheet below and sign up to bring something for class next week (4/20). We decided to just go with general categories of Sweet, Salty and Drinks. That way you don't have to specify exactly what you're going to bring.

https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AjopQxzJ1BMFdHNNU0dWbUpsbVB0OUJmMDdRYjBGdnc&hl=en

Pea (1993) "Practices of distributed intelligence and designs for education"

By SCOTT P MCDONALD on January 26, 2010 12:54 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks

This is the first week on the cycle where you will look at design. We are taking a somewhat different approach to design as a theme. It will not be about user interface (directly) and it won't be about coding and tools (precisely), but it will be about how we as social beings interact through the artifacts that we design. It will be a theme that is integral to the structure and function of the course and the other themes. Try to think about design as a natural part of any socially mediated interaction. Pea's piece will lay some of the groundwork for this perspective and give you a chance to begin thinking about design in a new way.

Get the reading here.

Pea, R. D. (1993). Practices of distributed intelligences and design for education. In G. Solomon (Ed.), Distributed cognitions: Psychological and educational considerations (pp. 47-87). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

CI 597 on Twitter

By Cole W. Camplese on January 18, 2010 4:52 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks

We've now gotten all but one of you in a custom Twitter list that you can use to keep track of what is happening with all of us. I used the Twitter List feature to add all of you ... I noticed at least one of you has protected Tweets. Protected Tweets can keep lists from working perfectly, so I'd like to encourage you to potentially open your Twitter updates up while you are in the class. The list is located at:

http://twitter.com/colecamplese/ci597

Also, we need to decide on a hashtag for the semester. A hashtag lets people easily mark a tweet to be about a specific event. A lot of times you'll see tweets that have "something" after it ... that #something is a hashtag. For our course we will use #ci597 as our hashtag. So find the list, start posting, and don't forget the hashtag!

Food for Final Session

By Cole W. Camplese on April 24, 2008 2:27 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks

Please leave a comment to this post related to the food and drink you'll contribute to the final class.

TLT Symposium Tag Team Signup

By Cole W. Camplese on March 20, 2008 2:17 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks

Please sign up for the TLT Tag Team. This is the stuff we'll be asking for you to be helpful with:

Tag your photos [Flickr]
Tag your writing [blogs@PSU]
Tag your web sites [del.icio.us]
Tag your activity [Twitter]
Tag yourself [stickers]

For Class Thursday

By Cole W. Camplese on March 4, 2008 3:28 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks

Hi all ... Bart Pursel from the College of Information Sciences and Technology will be in class on Thursday to talk to you a bit about virtual worlds and how they play out in a learning landscape. Bart maintains a blog that you might want to take a look at it. He also passed a link along to a PDF he'd like you to skim over. It should be a fun and interesting discussion, so please try to come ready to participate.

Readings for the Week

By Cole W. Camplese on February 7, 2008 4:16 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks

This week we have a couple of interesting readings for you. The first is the Cluetrain Manifesto and is much more of a technically driven reading than what we've assigned to this point. To many people this was the first book to change their minds about how the Internet could be used as a platform. The Cluetrain focuses on the idea that "it is all about the conversation" and that the web should be used to empower that. The second reading is from Wenger's Communities of Practice. You'll find that reading in ANGEL. The Cluetrain pieces are open and freely available to read online. I've linked to them below.

Cluetrain Manifesto:

Specifically related to the Cluetrain Manifesto, we would like you to create a blog post that provides an overarching reaction to the assigned pieces of the reading. In addition, please select the three themes that you feel are most compelling, interesting, or that you feel connected to. Don't just list the three themes, please tell us why you selected them as they relate to community, design, or identity. Please try to relate your responses to the readings you've done to this point.

Default on MT4

By Cole W. Camplese on February 5, 2008 7:26 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks

Just a quick note to let people know to beware that the default when creating a blog post on MT4 is published (pull down menu in "Publishing" section. So, if you are typing something as a draft or for yourself that you don't want published make sure and select unpublished in the status menu.

Pligg Issues

By Cole W. Camplese on February 3, 2008 12:18 PM | 6 Comments | 0 TrackBacks

Can you please leave a comment on this post (at the course blog site, not at Pligg) if you are still having problems with Pligg. The one issue I am most interested in fixing is the problem we've seen wit ha couple people's posts coming in being attributed to someone else. If this is still happening let me know in the comments. Thanks!

Comments are Active

By Cole W. Camplese on January 29, 2008 11:48 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks

I just wanted to let you all know that the Blogs at Penn State toolset is now working with visitor comments. If you want to turn on commenting, you can follow the directions here:

http://blogger.psu.edu/help/basics/comments

And you can now leave comments here at the course blog as well.

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