I’ve been seeing the phrase “walled garden” a lot in the edublogosphere, and always with a negative connotation. It is a term that seems to carry over from more general usage referring to either media content or wiki pages that are not open to the public. Of course, Walls are Bad, Open is Good. (”Two […]
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In Defense of Walled Gardens
Published by February 21st, 2006 in Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!), Open Source, Open Content, Open Access, Educational Pattern Languages, Notable Posts and LMOS. 0 CommentsInstructables: step-by-step collaboration
Published by December 11th, 2005 in Instructional Design and Educational Pattern Languages. 0 CommentsHere’s a nice little tool, community, and design pattern for creating and sharing how-to learning objects. Basically, it provides a wizard for inputting text step descriptions and illustrative images. Mix in some Flickr-style usability principles and some folksonomic tagging goodness, and you have a nice little instructional confection.
Here’s their description of their approach:
A key […]
Time, Ownership, and the VLE
Published by October 8th, 2005 in Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!), Educational Pattern Languages, Notable Posts and LMOS. 3 CommentsThis is the first of several posts I’ll be making about stuff I learned at yesterday’s conference at FIT—which was excellent. It’s not often that I go to a conference where I find every single speaker to be interesting, but this was certainly the case here. (Raymond Yee apparently live-blogged…er…live-wiki’ed the first part of the […]
“Signature Pedaogies” = Educational Pattern Languages?
Published by June 7th, 2005 in Educational Pattern Languages. 0 CommentsChris Correa has a thought-provoking post on something called “signature pedagogies.” Here’s an excerpt:
Shulman, president of the Carnegie Foundation, shared some of the preliminary results from the foundation’s studies of professional education (including the education of lawyers, doctors, clergy, teachers, and others). He introduced the notion of signature pedagogies, or (as I understood it) the […]
Small Tools/Big Ideas: Integrating Technologies for Teaching Art and Art History
Published by June 7th, 2005 in Instructional Design, Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!) and Educational Pattern Languages. 0 CommentsFIT will be hosting a great conference this October on teaching visual topics online using tools that afford social learning. The conference is just a bit of a misnomer, since much of the content will be relevant and valuable to a more general audience than just art and art history instructors; it’s really about teaching […]
