Apr

22

Developing the SSBR Platform

April 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment

It has been a fraught three days working on the new JISC-ssbr platform. After a long time of indecision we are pushed to cement something in place and live with it. I am writing this as much to check that feeds into the various blog components work.

Apr

15

@heloukee – Sparks off of the conversation prism to social entrepreneurship

April 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment

The links through the conversation prism (http://bit.ly/rg26k) to its creator JESS3 (http://jess3.com/) and one of the sites they did (http://www.busboysandpoets.com/) led to “B Corporations” (http://www.bcorporation.net/). This appears to be a nascent US social entrepreneurship standards setting and certifying initiative. The B-rating system attempts to go further than “triple bottom line” accounting (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_bottom_line) and corporate social [...]

Apr

8

Coruisk thru horizontal sleet

April 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Posted via email from George’s posterous

Apr

6

Pinnacle ridge

April 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Posted via email from George’s posterous

Apr

2

Horizon 5-year meta trends in emerging technologies for learning #shock09

April 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Seven metatrends in emerging technologies likely to have a large impact on teaching, learning, or creative expression within learning-focused organizations include:

the evolving approaches to communication between humans and machines
the collective sharing and generation of knowledge
computing in three dimensions
connecting people via the network;
games as pedagogical platforms
the shifting of content production to users;
and the evolution of a [...]

Apr

2

4 dimensions of digital literacy #shock09

April 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment

I was discussing an unpublished draft of a working paper on digital literacy at Oxford Brookes. It struck me that a communication theory model might be useful when looking at the tools we might use. The four dimensions I recognised in the paper were:

n-0: solitary reflection
1-n: broadcasting ones self: blogging, writing for publication
n-1: using a [...]