Thanks to a tip on Twitter I’ve just discovered a new wiki plugin for WordPress that I’m in the process of testing.  WordPress Wiki enables nominated individuals to collaborate on pages or posts in a manner that closely resembles the common convention found on wikis everywhere.
When installed, a new option becomes available at the bottom of both the post and page creation forms.  Ticking this option turns the content from a standard WordPress post or page into one that is editable by the group.  You are also able to activate …

Following on Anne Marie’s question yesterday regarding why you would use distributed models over centralised ones, I just had a thought I want to explore and throw out for discussion. I made an initial attempt at articulating my thoughts on the matter via a Seesmic comment, but having spent some more time thinking about it since then I believe there are additional ways we could explore this question in a much more detailed and structured way.
UNSW has released a document called the Guidelines on Learning that Inform Teaching at …

I have to thank Shane Roberts for the suggestion to post a review of the last 12 months. With tonight being the end of 2008, it seems fitting to devote proper consideration to reflecting upon the learning experiences and activities I’ve been engaged with this year. While I hadn’t set out to do this when first starting this blog in 2007, it’s proven to be an exceptionally insightful experience that I hope to establish as a tradition in the coming years.
To know where you’re going I think you …

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I’m sitting in bed as I type this, currently unable to sleep.  As is increasingly the norm these days I’ve been pondering what appears to be a growing disconnect between my passionate beliefs in learning – and how best to nurture it – and the current state of education – and where it is headed.  I’m frustrated with the standoff.
I believe quite strongly in the personalisation of learning, and the significance of each person finding their own way through the educational landscape.  Education and formal educational …

Jenny Mackness posted an interested question on her blog earlier this week on the implications of slow blogging, saying:
“I read an article in a daily paper…about slow blogging. The article said that slow blogging had been a very popular idea, but that the person who had originally raised the whole idea of slow blogging now no longer blogged, presumably (according to the article) because people got fed up of waiting for the next blog post. This is an interesting dilemma – don’t you think? On the one hand we need …