Tag Archives: Jon-Udell

What Intrigues Me About Google Wave

By Michael Feldstein | Published: May 31, 2009
Now that I’ve had a little while to think about it, I’m ready to distill my initial enthusiastic reaction to Google Wave down to a manageably short (and hopefully non-fanboi) post. Let me say at the outset that I have no idea whether Wave will succeed. I am convinced, however, that something like Wave will [...]
Posted in Educational Pattern Languages, LMOS, Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!) | Also tagged , , , , , , | 13 Comments

Teaching Faculty About Wikipedia (and Social Software in General)

By Michael Feldstein | Published: July 26, 2006
I just discovered Jon Udell’s wonderfully archeological screencast about the evolution of a wikipedia page. In eight and a half minutes, he beautifully demonstrates how a community negotiates knowledge construction when nobody is the boss, anybody can edit, and there are no formal processes. As we know, this is a particularly vexing question to many [...]
Posted in Emergence, Distributed Cognition, & Aggregation Science, Instructional Design, Notable Posts, Openness | Also tagged , | Leave a comment

Video Literacy

By Michael Feldstein | Published: March 4, 2006
There’s an old joke among instructional designers. In response to a request for “gratuitous” video in a course, we ask, “What moves?” The implication, of course, is that if you are not showing content that is inherently dynamic and in motion then there is no point to video. How last millennium can you be? The joke betrays [...]
Posted in Higher Education, Instructional Design | Also tagged , , | 1 Comment

Progress Toward an Offline e-Learning Client?

By Michael Feldstein | Published: November 22, 2005
One of the most beloved aspects of the SUNY Learning Network’s current Lotus Notes-based homegrown LMS is its offline capabilities. Faculty members can download the current course data–including student discussion posts, tests, etc. They can respond to posts, grade papers and tests, add announcements, and so on, all while offline, and automatically synchronize the next [...]
Posted in Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!) | Also tagged , , , , , , | 2 Comments

Del.icio.us Feast

By Michael Feldstein | Published: March 26, 2005
I admit it: Much as del.icio.us has intrigued me, I could never quite figure out how to use the darned thing. Lucky for me, Eric Feinblatt turned me on to a screencast on the topic by John Udell. If you’re like me and you haven’t quite been able to get into del.icio.us, then check out [...]
Posted in Content Management & Taxonomy as Knowledge Management, Folksonomy | Also tagged , , | 1 Comment

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