Jul 06 2010
(Cross-posted from my Learning Alliances blog.) Recently I finished a remarkably useful book: Mizuko Ito, et al. Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out: Kids Living and Learning With New Media (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2009). It has some common ancestry with ours, since the first authors of both Hanging Out and Digital Habitats were [...]
Jun 18 2010
(Cross-posted from my Learning Alliances blog.) From my perspective we wrote Digital Habitats as a call to action (and reflection) more than anything else. So it’s a bit ironic to see it used as a textbook, at least for me, being so skeptical about exactly what kind of learning is going on in schools. But [...]
Jun 08 2010
Joyce Seitzinger (aka @catspyjamasnz) created an amazing piece of reified technolgy stewardship knowledge with her Moodle Tool Guide for Teachers – Cat’s Pyjamas . Joyce has matched activities a teacher might want to support with the various tools and features of Moodle. Pretty darn impressive. What I love is the emphasis on the ACTIVITIES, rather [...]
May 21 2010
(This post is cross-posted from my blog at Learning Alliances.) Kathy Milhauser mentioned that she assigned Digital Habitats to students in a course on globally distributed project teams. That got me thinking about the difference between a project team and a community as far as their digital habitat is concerned. Of course there are many [...]
Apr 02 2010
If you’ve never participated in one of Jerry Michalski’s Yi-Tan phone calls, you are in for a tweet. Join Jerry, Etienne, Nancy and John on Monday April 5 at 10:30 am, to discuss: How has technology changed what it means for communities to “be together”? What is the role of a technology steward? the key [...]
Mar 14 2010
(This is cross-posted from my blog on Learning Alliances.) You probably already know that Skype is a great tool – especially for community leaders. If you are a technology steward, it’s not only a great tool but it’s also a handy example for illustrating some of the use and integration issues that we have to [...]
Mar 08 2010
The surprise that you want to have when your book is published is to move a conversation forward and to pick up on the conversation with new people. At least that’s what I think now, after Digital Habitats has been out for a while. One of my big hopes is to see people actually put [...]
Feb 18 2010
February 16, 2010 Theme: Rethinking Ourselves (KM People) as Technology Stewards The agenda: What brought Etienne, John and Nancy to the conversation about technology stewardship A little bit about our respective practices Just in case Images: A slide deck with: A definition of technology stewardship Orientations Polarities Open up the conversation Resources: Book site: http://www.technologyforcommunities.com [...]
Feb 16 2010
Today Etienne, John and I will be guests on Stan Garfield’s terrific monthly telecon for knowledge management professionals, SIKM. Our focus is on knowledge management folks as technology stewards. We are going to “interview” each other to save from falling into talking AT instead of talking WITH, but we have a few slides with definitions [...]
Jan 21 2010
Face-to-face conferences aren’t what they used to be and that’s ok with me. How many times have you gone to a face-to-face conference in another city where you rub shoulders with a lot of strangers, listen to a bunch of talking heads with obscure PowerPoint slides in cold dark rooms, make a few acquaintances at [...]
