Background This post is my first attempt to articulate an evolving idea regarding the development of a platform to enable collaborative video projects that support the more creative aspects of the learning process.
Ever since I moved to the faculties from the central unit where I had been situated for the last 7 years, my brain has been experiencing a never-ending explosion of innovative ideas. Virtually every day I have a wacky new thought.
This is due in no small part to the fact I spent many years contemplating the theoretical possibilities …

What began as a short response to @Danny Kingsley has gradually blown out into something far larger.  So rather than leave this in the comments area of the original post I thought I might devote a new post to it. (Thanks for your thoughts on this, Danny.)
I suppose I should take a step back and add a bit of context to the perspective I’m coming from here, because the original post was a bit too broad brush in many ways.
My comments were directed largely at the notion of sharing and reuse of …

What we need are not bigger and better repositories for sharing materials. What we need are more effective ways of indexing and searching within and across spaces and places where sharing is occuring in its raw and natural state.
Generally speaking I think it holds true that organisations need repositories for sharing and reuse more than individuals do. After all, they spend oodles and oodles of money funding projects and activities for their staff and students – either directly via programs and grants or indirectly through facilities and infrastructure. So perhaps …

At the risk of this coming across as some sort of manifesto, I have an opinionated stream of consciousness I’d like to delve into…
We have a responsibility, I think, to leverage the environments and technologies that are the most appropriate for our learning experiences, and for the experiences of those who look to us as examples, or as mentors.  I believe this stands true without exception.
In the event a central service, or other established environment fails to meet the learning requirements of our classes, our friends, students or ourselves, I …

There’s something in the air right now – something electrifying. It’s conference time. The season when I witness the ceaseless banter of folks like Scott Leslie, Jim Groom, Alan Levine, Brian Lamb and a host of inimitable North American characters flooding the Twitter airwaves like a tidal wave.
It’s amazingly entertaining to watch, and yet something about it often makes me pensive. It’s the feeling that I’m missing out on the excitement, the creative energy, the showmanship, the passion and the fun – missing out on the incredible aire of enthusiastic …