http://rickwest.edublogs.org Bloggin' about many things, but for right now I am talking about Online Learning Research in preparation for a BlogTracks presentation at AECT Mon, 12 May 2008 01:35:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Practicing. http://rickwest.edublogs.org/2008/05/12/this-is-a-test/ Well, I've done it again. I've moved my blog to http://the-wests.net/rick. I know, I know, if you are one of the two people out there reading me :-), I've done this before. My reasoning this time is that the Edublogs community is meant to be for educators. I am one, ... http://rickwest.edublogs.org/2007/02/27/this-blog-has-moved/ I wanted to try and get this out yesterday, but had a busy, fun day! Too much fun stuff going on, and didn’t get around to filling out my notes. As it is, this is still largely in note form because I’m still thinking about what Mr. Couch said, and ... http://rickwest.edublogs.org/2006/10/12/aect-keynote-john-couch-vp-for-apple-education/ This is part 2 of my summary posts in preparation for the face-to-face BlogTracks presentation. In part 1, I summarized what I have blogged about in this space in the last couple of months. In this second part, I will discuss what I think might be some keys to enabling ... http://rickwest.edublogs.org/2006/10/12/enabling-a-successful-blogtracks-presentation/ Our face-to-face portion of the BlogTracks presentation will be tomorrow (Thursday) in the Pavilion room at 9:15 a.m. Come join us! technorati tags:BlogTracks, AECT, AECT, AECT2006Blogged with Flock http://rickwest.edublogs.org/2006/10/12/blogtracks-meeting-times/ The time has come to give the face-to-face presentation of the activity on this blog as part of the AECT 2006 convention BlogTracks. And as far as the activity outside of my own writing, I can report that … Nothing happened. I understand, of course, that folks are busy, and what’s in ... http://rickwest.edublogs.org/2006/10/12/blogtracks-summary-for-aect-presentation/ Michael Barbour, one of the AECT interns this year, is trying to understand why graduate students seem to be participating less and less in AECT. He and I both believe that it is partly because of cost. As Michael writes: The volunteer commitment for AECT is 12 hours over a two and a half ... http://rickwest.edublogs.org/2006/10/12/aect-graduate-student-petition/ forgive this test! http://rickwest.edublogs.org/2006/10/11/test/ Online communities of learning do not work. This, at least, seems to be the message of many researchers who have studied online communities or computer-supported collaborative learning (Hewitt, 2005; Van der Meijden & Veenman, 2005, for example). However, online communities can, and do succeed in some situations. For example, sites ... http://rickwest.edublogs.org/2006/10/11/can-we-learn-design-ideas-from-popular-social-networking-sites/ I have been experimenting with Flock as my browser the last few months. There are some things I love, but it is still in an obvious, true beta form (as contrasted with other, unnamed, corporations who call things "beta" when they really are full-fledged applications!). If you haven't seen Flock, ... http://rickwest.edublogs.org/2006/10/05/the-generations-of-distance-education-5/