Dec 30 2011
We wrote Chapter 10 of Digital Habitats as a combination summary of the whole book and as a workbook that organizes the content in a roughly chronological / process order (instead of the logical, expository order we use in the book itself). We imagined that people would copy pages of the book and write their [...]
May 10 2011
(Cross posted on FullCirc and NWWCoP, plus a Russian translation here.) A conversation emerging in the Network Weaving Community of Practice (NWWCoP) focuses on this question: how can/do we use social media for intentionally weaving our networks? As we prepare for a synchronous conversation today, I realized I can frame this question from a technology [...]
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 [...]
