Monthly Archives: December 2007
Collective Intelligence: What is collective intelligence and augmented social cognition?
Collective Intelligence Collective intelligencecan be defined as an organically grown bank of knowlege, which providesthe group with a totalsum of knowledge that is fargreater than what each individual member could produce or realize on their own. Information within collective intelligenceis … Continue reading
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Wikis: Wikis for Business and Education – A Quick Guide to Etiquette
Wiki Etiquette: byRachael King, Business Week (2007) DO 1. Be bold: Go ahead and create content or edit someone else’s work. Wikis develop faster when people fix problems, correct grammar, add facts, etc. This is a collaborative tool, after all. … Continue reading
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Collaborative Intelligence: Wikis for Business
Collaborative Intelligence: Wikis for Business In today’s top Fortune 500 companies, wikis are becoming thecollaborative tool of choicefor building vast store houses of corporate knowledge. Wikis are relativelyeasy touse and manage,and are surprisingly versatile in their functionality. Innovation and knowledge … Continue reading
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Wikis: Using Wikis for Business and Education
Wikis: Wikis are evolving into the perfect collaborative tool for business and education. By now, nearly everyone has heard of, or used the famous “Wikipedia” that was launchedin 2001. But what you might not realize is that the open source … Continue reading
Teacher’s Guide: What is Podcasting?
What is Podcasting? Podcasts are essentially episodes of programming delivered via the Internet. They can useaudio, video or PDFs or a combination of all three. Content publishers utilize RSS feeds which contain metadata, allowing for the broadcast to be catalogued … Continue reading
Web 2.0: Showcase of Web 2.0 sites
Web 2.0 as we have discussed is quickly becoming… ahh shall we say an overused term. But if you are not tired of it yet, neither am I. So if you’d like, grab my hand and we shall march fearlessly … Continue reading
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Web 2.0: Collective Intelligence
Rays of Collective Intelligence within the Web 2.0 environment: Web 2.0 is aboutWeb usersconnecting together and collectively creating and sharing knowledge. It is an extremely powerful and exciting concept which I find particularly compelling.It is also the basic foundationofthe theory … Continue reading
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The Semantic Web: Evolving Knowledge
Today we are awash in key worded blogs, RSS feeds and automated agents which seek out content based on our requirements, and bring it back to us on a regular basis. But at the beginning of this millenium, the idea … Continue reading
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Education: Situated Cognition
Comparative Organizer: Situated Cognition Author:Diane Michel Representative theorists Jean Lave €” A social anthropologist whose studies focus on learning through social interaction and situated learning. Significant breakthroughs achieved by “reconceiving” ideas of “learning, learners, and educational institutions”. Doesn’t believe that … Continue reading
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Education: Online Learning Sense of Community
Building social interaction and facilitating a sense of community within an OLE. Author: Diane Michel March 20, 2006 Abstract: Learning is a process that occurs within a social context.We learn from one another through the sharing of experiences, collaboration, negotiation … Continue reading
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