Unworkshop2-my blog

Jay has a plan and wishes – but those „stupid“ students act differently….

The last assignment was difficult – so a conversation with another „unworkshopper“ would have been undispensable – but I didn’t meet anybody. When most of the others start to work I am tired of many hours  at the computer (given the computer and my internet connection work…)

So I was going through the topics we covered during the last month – I learned quite something and got an awful lot of interesting resources (for at least another month) and I proudly present my delicious account containing nearly 30 reviewed links (most of them added today).

So this is what I did today. Something but not the planned asignment.

It is obviously too much to „digest“ and the time for the assignments is too short – especially with the different time zones.

Anyway it was an inspiring and interesting workshop and I would like to stay in touch and be allowed to address others when in the coming months….

Regards and thanks to all

I was really impressed by Jay’s creation of his PKM — a wiki site. I was experiencing with the new personalization feature Google offers – but I found it not too easy to customize (at least at the first glance)  – nice was to get all World Cup news on the personalized site.

Tagging seems helpful – and dangerous – to get lost in cyberspace – to click from one link to the other – and two hours later…..

I wonder when I should store my links in a weblog (which I used to do) and when to choose deli.co.us – see here (I enclosed some tagging links from our wiki) Seems to depend on the topic.

I am wondering how to get a personal feed in bozpage. And does anyone have experience – besides the design aspect Jay mentioned – in the comparison of these aggregators (Blogline, superglu )?

Reflections of June 13^th, 06 

I had a look through the slides that did not come through the other day and I – for the first time – experienced the power of syndications within a group  aaaaahhhhh! Through the unworkshop aggregator. I want to try this out within my project. I have practically no experience with blogline or was it superglue?  

Later I saw Marilyn’s drawing of the yesterday session – what an artist! It reminded me of the drawings Gilly Salmon has of the different stages of her model. – Perhaps you should think of changing profession – or didn’t I read your profile not correctly ) 

Then I read through the two recommended articles of Mr. Clark and Mr. Drownes.I wonder if the German speaking educational blogging scene really still is in a very experimental phase or is it just my perception and I just haven’t subscribed the right blogs….I was never aware of the Chinese and the Japanese blogging scene – what are they about – what are their main issues – and in that presentation yesterday they where very strong. I wonder if there are some interesting within the informal learning, web2.0…. scene. 

As a visible step I started to enter personal reflections into my blog – following the hint of being personal to be interesting….. 

Unfortunately until tomorrow there won’t be a internet easily accessible for me – so I wrote my reflections remote….

Reflections of June 12^th, 06 

We,
Carolina, Ulrike and I had an interesting Skype-talk in German about us and blogs. Ulrike wrote a summary in her blog. 

Carolina is writing her theses about elearning and KM. Often companies start thinking of KM when getting in touch with elearning. Even more interesting is the thought of informal learning and KM, which leads me – again – to my personal challenge – a working personal KM starting with my laptop, moving to CDs, books, articles, papers of congresses, marketing material ….. 

Ulrike is thinking of exchanging her family website to a blog. I personally wouldn’t write my family stuff into the internet – am I too traditional? Am I thinking of the wrong things? Why don’t I want to post family related material into the web… 

What are my fears? Somebody with no good plans collects photos, combines them with the address and the name …. and surprises my kids, my parents, grandfather by knowing them and they believe the person and get raped, stolen whatever …. 

Though it could be tremendously interesting to enter “historical” data and find out if somebody else is interested in “my” family history and roots…. 

Evening session – 

Jay is Judy at least in the app share Jay is fighting against windmills like Don Quijote , his laptop broke down (what a dreadful thought!),  the guys in the hotel did not want him to go on online-talking without paying another day….Harold – ground control to Major Tom … 

The app share tool vyiew is interesting – I wonder if it is freely accessible Skype cast – it was the first time I used it – and in combination with the conference call a cool “architecture” – though still … 

What I would like to have in an online session

1. Harold or Judy to have the slides of Jay as well – so in case Jay disappears for some reason – the other one/s could continue and not have to wait
2. some possibility that everybody can/should speak (at least say yes or no) during the course of the session
3. perhaps every time a couple of students talk a little bit about who they are and actual topics to discuss with others in “private sessions”