eBlog by Tore Hoel » Online practice

The small screen experience

admin — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 15:30:48 +0000

I never thought I would use the iPod to blog. However, I start to see that micro blogging, micro screens, micro reading devices are changing my online behaviour quite a bit. Reading newsfeeds is much more fun via this small device. And now I’ve discovered ebooks and all the other good, free stuff. What’s fascinating is the way the iPod works together with the laptop. Ideas start in the small and get improved with the…

The pic is my architect and the island’s carpenter - all found on my iPod.

Blog your thesis

admin — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 07:45:44 +0000

The TIK centre at University of Oslo sported the young and promising fresh master candidate Jan Fredrik Stoveland at its closing seminar of the project Charisma & Code: The Political Economy of Free/Open Software yesterday. Stoveland has written on Managing Firm-Sponsored Open Source Communities: A case study of Novell and the openSUSE project - an interesting account of how two development cultures co-exist and thrive.

Interesting though, is the good practice of Stoveland to publish his research (drafts, summaries, and final thesis) using a blog. There are help and inspiration to find out there sharing your work in this way. Even proof reading assistance, as one of the commentaries in Jan Fredrik’s weblog shows. Visit, read, and download! (And yes, he got an A, duly reported in the blog).

Technorati Tags: blogging, open source

MERLOT Journal - special issue on LMS og other stuff

admin — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:53:31 +0000

MERLOT Journal of Online Learning and Teaching has just published a special issue on Learning Management Systems, life-long learning, identity, Web 2.0 and the other “framework” questions relevant for digital learning support. Read the abstracts page - and pick you PDFs for download or read online!

Deepening the Chasm: Web 2.0, Gaming, and Course Management Systems, Bryan Alexander caught my attention…

(Via, Øystein Johannessen’s blog - thnx)

Technorati Tags: LMS, Web2.0

The feasibility of Project Blogging

admin — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 08:11:44 +0000

I’ve been giving a presentation at the Project Seminar of the Norwegian Opening Universities (Norgesuniversitetet). Is is a good idea to mandate the use of project blogs to receive project funding? Not really, if you don’t want to have a dead blog, is my answer. The presentation is in Norwegian, see mindmap (PDF) below.

The full mindmap (with link to viewer), screenshots and stuff is zipped in a big file of 14 MB.

No need for a Bogger’s Code of Conduct - we are already well behaved?

admin — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 09:45:30 +0000

Kristine Lowe reports on the salto mortale of Tim O’Reilly (the guy that coined the confusing concept of Web 2.0). He called for a Blogger’s Code of Conduct, only to change his mind 180 degrees when he sensed the stupidity of his proposal that was caused by the moral panic that followed a “threats post” to a high profile blogger.

The blogosphere is a dangerous place - which I will elaborate more on when I give my presentation on blogging to the “project seminar” of the Norway Opening Universities on Tuesday.

Workblogging

admin — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 16:41:01 +0000

It has be great fun to write a research paper on workblogging to be submitted to the TenCompentence conference to be held in Manchester in January. I have written the paper together with Paul Hollins of JISC CETIS, and we have used all sorts of communication technologies in odd places to coordinate the work, Skype being the most prominent. We do not know yet if the paper will be accepted, but nevertheless, I have booked my plain from Marrakech back to Oslo via Manchester. We have drawn on Norwegian and UK practices to underline our theory that blogging in work context might meet some special tensions worth to acknowledge if this is going to be a successful means of knowledge management strategy.

If you are interested to comment upon a draft, give me a shout via e-mail: tore dot hoel at hio dot no.

My blog profiles

admin — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 07:54:58 +0000

Recent blogging experiences have made me reflect upon the differences between personal blogs and workblogs. (I am trying to write a paper on this, and would like to be pointed towards any resources that might help.) While researching this theme I stumbled across (via Scott Wilson) Lilia Efimova’s blog research where she has developed an instrument to profile you blogging practice.

Lilai has created a matrix to evaluate your blog in terms of personal and business dimensions. Using her typology, my personal blog seems to have this profile (click on the thumbnail to have a readable figure in a new window).

And my workblog at www.estandard.no has this profile:

Wikipedia makes you fail

admin — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 07:41:29 +0000

If a student at University of Oslo cites Wikipedia in a paper, he or she will fail. This was said by an advisor at The Faculty of Theology with a professional interest in Theological Dogmatism in a recent workshop om Social software, arranged by Teria at Oslo Unversity College (not to be mixed up with UiO).

My immediate response was to ask if the university still get students, but I should have bit my tongue, being so un-academic. Instead I should have waited until today and referred to the peer-reviewed (and accepted as a source at the UiO?) firstmonday, where Thomas Chesney is publishing an article on “An empirical examination of Wikipedia’s credibility”.

Although the study is rather limited, Clesney concludes subject domain experts find the “the accuracy of Wikipedia high”. Research staff was given two articles, one in their own expert domain, and one random. The experts found Wikipedia articles to be more credible than non-expert…

What I am asking is what would happen if the cited articles did not have the truth. Is not learning about testing the truth of untrue matters? If you are not allow to start with the devil - well, then you must be situated in place that holds the truth, i.e. an theological faculty? (My tounge is bleeding!)