Sharing learning contexts within a distributed conversation model - The Diigo Meta page

• 04 Apr 08
  

  Danyelle Hennington

  There has been an interesting discussion recently about the development of distributed conversations using blogs and syndication. However, to enable a distributed conversation of any kind to take place requires an agreement of context among participants - that is, we have to have a way of knowing whether something is part of the conversation or not. Some of the posts on this topic so far have cited the use of tagging and social bookmarking services as a way of constructing and sharing context.
  
  

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• 05 Jan 07
  

  Charles Nelson

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• 16 Jun 06
  

  Antonio Figueiredo

  Scott Wilson's Workblog: From now on instead of courses I'm going to talk about shared learning contexts (SLCs). Courses are a good word to describe a lot of things in formal education, but isn't broad enough to cover similar groups of functionality in in

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• 26 Oct 05
  

  Gardner Campbell

  Sharing Learning Contexts Witthin a Distributed Conversation Model--which is essentially a re-looking at the core misson of the university from the point of view of Web 2.0

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• 26 Aug 05
  

  nlowell

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• 25 Aug 05
  

  Yvonne Murtagh

  Sharing Learning Contexts Within A Distributed Conversation Model

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• 22 Aug 05
  

  Nancy White

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  • Sharing Learning Contexts Within A Distributed Conversation Model  There has been an interesting discussion recently about the development of distributed conversations using blogs and syndication. However, to enable a distributed conversation of any kind to take place requires an agreement of context among participants - that is, we have to have a way of knowing whether something is part of the conversation or not. Some of the posts on this topic so far have cited the use of tagging and social bookmarking services as a way of constructing and sharing context.  One of the difficulties facing collaboration based around feed ecologies is the lack of a mechanism to creating and sharing a context that links disparate feeds and entries. This is not usually a big problem, as the conversation usually emerges in a fairly spontaneous manner and working your way through the flimsy connections isn't too difficult for those interested enough to dig through them. (Though as Ewan McIntosh observes, there is the tricky question of figuring out whether a conversation has actually even started.)  However in a learning context I can see that it will be useful for teachers to be able to help students contextualize a set of sources within a topic, and to initiate a conversation within a group.  This isn't to say learners might not reshape the scope of the conversation from their perspective, adding the resources that they think are relevant, but having the initial scaffold for a course of "here's where I'll share some useful resources, and here are your fellow students" is something students will generally need to have provided for them.  For example, for a course a teacher may create a set of audio monologues or video presentations, a set of useful reading material and bookmarks, use a blog to pose questions and respond to students, and have students post their ideas and supplementary resources they discover on their own blogs. All of these can be shared using the aggregation
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  Will Richardson

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