Endorphins & Interactions

Web UX, running, cycling and other stuff by James Wanless

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Will post-sec embrace the open social?

Posted on Aug 26th, 2008 :: Filed in academic, pixels

The answer to this question seems to be largely dependent on what you read, and it probably also depends on what you want to use open, social software for. Based on some of the mailing lists and discussion forums I read, and post-sec sites I visit, social media concepts (whether built on open source or [...]

Residency wrap

Posted on Aug 15th, 2008 :: Filed in academic

I really could not think of much but getting a good night’s sleep for a couple days after my Royal Roads residency ended last Friday. Now that I have had time to get through the rest of one of my two textbooks and finished the first of my two post-residency assignments, I can look back [...]

The web as a research tool

Posted on Aug 12th, 2008 :: Filed in academic, pixels

The past couple weeks have been a real education when it comes to using the web for academic research. I am at different places on each of what I’ve identified (so far) as three primary knowledge streams of the MA I’m undertaking, research being the one I’ve got a middling amount of comfort with. I [...]

One gigantic learning cycle experiment

Posted on Aug 8th, 2008 :: Filed in academic

In my mind, there are two distinct ways of looking at what this group of great people has been through in the past two weeks. There’s the side that forces you to look at yourself, examine your own beliefs and theories and (hopefully) begin realizing some new possibilities. Then there’s the piece that RRU looks [...]

Online constructivism

Posted on Aug 6th, 2008 :: Filed in academic, pixels

As we all really begin looking at learning in the context of the web, it’s interesting to take a look at some of the research around the effectiveness of the medium. How some of this information affects you probably depends on how you feel about the web to begin with, how you’ve used it and [...]