http://rworld2.brookesblogs.net George Roberts' Work Blog Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:15:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en More Success with Less Stress MyEdu's ground breaking applications make it easy for college students to design, manage and navigate the path towards graduation. We ... http://rworld2.brookesblogs.net/2010/03/11/myedu-education-portal-building-a-uni-for-the-i-me-me-mine-generation-jisc/ Point: No matter how many servers Google or RackSpace etc install, the amount of available storage will never "approach infinity". No matter how much you have, there could always be infinitely more (in this thought-experimental world where there are still infinitely more possible servers). A gazillion servers with peta peta ... http://rworld2.brookesblogs.net/2010/03/09/infinitely-sloppy-thinking-one-point-and-one-question-about-approaching-infinity/ by Sharlyn Lauby via mashable.com It would be good to see ALT planning to incorporate some wave into the social networking around the ALT-C conference. Maybe the official Crowdvine network (http://cmalt-net.alt.ac.uk/) could kick it off, or the F-ALT fringe (http://f-alt.wetpaint.com/). The problem is that Google has not ... http://rworld2.brookesblogs.net/2010/03/08/5-ways-to-use-wave-for-business-or-academiceducational-development-alt-jisc/ via uopeople.org Thanks to my delicious network for this link. Appeals to me, and Yale U association gives it credibility. Not sure it is the "world's first", unless tuition-free means no teaching ;-) Of course this means no fees. It this a blow back against U of Phoenix? ... http://rworld2.brookesblogs.net/2010/03/08/university-of-the-people-world%e2%80%99s-first-tuition-free-online-university-open-access-education/ I just followed Posterous' instructions, here for linking Posterous Posts to Buzz. Posted via email from George's posterous http://rworld2.brookesblogs.net/2010/03/08/testing-buzz-and-posterous-integration-big-thumbs-up-for-posterous-swift-personal-reply/ I am trying Google Reader and/or Posterous as social media broadcast hubs.In order to manage the network noise I might cause, I do not want to repost everything everywhere. This is emerging as a strong social networking faux-pas. But sometimes I might want to broadcast some items beyond the bounds ... http://rworld2.brookesblogs.net/2010/03/07/signal-to-noise-management-using-googlereader-posterous-friendfeed-twitter-buzz-facebook-linkedin-flickr/ via feedproxy.google.com Looks interesting (not least as a part of seeing how these various social media hubs interact) Posted via web from George's posterous http://rworld2.brookesblogs.net/2010/03/07/the-social-media-cheat-sheet/ Prompted by discussions on GoogleBuzz, a foray into ALT's CMALT CrowdVine (http://cmalt-net.alt.ac.uk/), I've been looking at some FriendFeed profiles trying to see if I miss anything by not being there, or there. CMALT is 95% (ish) noise while FF profiles that I have seen dip down to, oh, like 90% ... http://rworld2.brookesblogs.net/2010/03/07/social-network-noise-i-want-a-personal-friend-aggregator-that-knows-how-my-friends-follow-me-tweetdeck-buzz/ I had the pleasure recently to run a module workshop on "The Philosophy of Higher Education" in the Postgraduate Certificate course in Learning, Teaching and Assessment in Higher Education (PGCLTAHE) for recently appointed lecturers in Cranfield University's Defence and Security Department at the Defence Staff College at Shrivenham. Most of ... http://rworld2.brookesblogs.net/2010/02/28/philosophy-of-higher-education-workshop-at-the-defence-staff-college/ Check out: Whitchurch, C. (2008). Shifting Identities and Blurring Boundaries: the Emergence of Third Space Professionals in UK Higher Education. Higher Education Quarterly, 62(4), 377-396. Higher Education Quarterly, 0951–5224 DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2273.2008.00387.x Volume 62, No. 4, October 2008, pp 377–396 "... describes a further category of blended professionals, ... http://rworld2.brookesblogs.net/2010/02/21/third-space-professionals-blended-professionals-the-products-of-blended-learning/