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Reflections on a month …

Image via Wikipedia Nearly at the end now, and days 29-31 have been about wrapping up the 31 Day Comment Challenge. The final 3 days focus on the learnings: to prepare a commenting guide for students, to consider how learnings from this commenting project could change one’s teaching practices, and finally … to reflect on

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Day 26: Bring on the Media

Back to the daily Comment Challenge tasks and I’m hunting down some A-V apps to diversify commenting and make it more dynamic. I’ve had a few words to say over the past week or so on my commenting using Seesmic, so I won’t bang the drum again. If you haven’t read them, just type ‘Seesmic’

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Day 18 and some comment forensics

The Wisdom of Crowds

Image: thanks to Stephen Downes

Which of my posts have attracted the most comments, and which have kicked off the best conversations? I thought it a worthwhile exercise to track back over all of my posts to get a feel for this, not just those during the current 31 Day Comment Challenge. Whew!

OK … well I have to ‘fess up that I received very few comments at all during the first life of my blog. This blog Spinning a Learning Web started as something else altogether, and got a makeover during 2007 into its current focus on adventurous e-learning, and with a big nod to good design and Mac things.

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Postcard of a project

I’ve been working with a team of students for the past 10 weeks on what we call a production project. It’s a period of engagement with a particular play with all of their classes, training, workshops, rehearsals etc., being focussed on the final outcome … a public production. The students are in their second year

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Day 7 and my week’s worth

{seesmic_video:{“url_thumbnail”:{“value”:”http://t.seesmic.com/thumbnail/Yg1NvQ9IWG_th1.jpg”}”title”:{“value”:”Day 7 and my week’s worth “}”videoUri”:{“value”:”http://www.seesmic.com/video/9zPUw9DAH3″}}} A few words on the week’s adventures with CoComments; niche areas; and video posts and comments

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Comment Challenge goes Flickr

Interested in sending up a video comment on the challenge? Have some images or screenshots that capture the 31 days of this adventure. Look no further. A couple of fevered brains  (aka Dogtrax and Dramagirl) have cooked up a Flickr Group to satisfy your cravings for moving and still images. Here’s a chance to try

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Day 1: Comment08

Interesting that this little video continues to get referenced. A year on and we’re still not all that ‘easy’ with video commenting. It seems that words rule whether they’re delimited by 140 characters (Twitter-ish) or given full rein in a blog post. Lots of reasons for this of course – the single most-cited is that

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Video and Blogging: the chatter increases

It’s been a while between drinks here on Spinning … . I’ve been engaged in a blogging and life-activity sense elsewhere. Not that I haven’t been busy in the world of e-learning, but it’s been the Clayton’s blogging (blogging you do when not blogging) i.e., tweeting, instant messaging and so on which has been occupying me. The whole Twitter universe seems to have expanded incredibly in the past week; I am being followed by hordes of people suddenly (hmm … another spammy manifestation which makes me feel as though I am being ‘collected’ randomly). Quite a few of my colleagues are suddenly ‘getting’ the point of Twitter. Me, still not sure, though good for a quick notification, help me out here, late night roundups of activity sort of thing.

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