DISQUS

Christopher D. Sessums · 1 year ago

Thanks for the linkages. There are a few here I want to spend more time with. I did get to read Tom Barrett's post on Twitter (which is quite fantastic).

Lately, I've made an attempt to start reading new writings, new blogs, to free mind a little.

While Diigo seems to be making a move in EdTech circles, I find myself exploring more writings through Twitter and subscribing to websites via my google homepage.

There is just so much information, news, and interesting ideas being circulated online, it's hard to know where to begin. I find myself looking to others within my network and exploring the edgier properties of their communities and connections.

Keep on rockin'

-c-

Doug Belshaw · 1 year ago

Thanks for the linkages.

I told one of my pupils off the other day for saying 'linkages' - is that what people say over the pond? ;-)

Thanks for the comment, Chris. I certainly echo what you say about 'freeing the mind' - it gets a bit claustrophobic in the edublogosphere sometimes. Hence, I suppose, the move from teaching.mrbelshaw.co.uk to dougbelshaw.com... :-)

Chris L · 1 year ago

Doug-- the diagram you point to on my site is actually Dave Pollard's, building on my original which was specifically about information fluency. He is seeking to broaden the concept (or, as I see it, pointing to where info fluency might lead)...

re: del.icio.us links-- I do post del.icio.us links to my blog, but not all of them, only the ones that I felt worthy enough to make it to my "linklog" and there is generally a description with them. Not sure if that rises above your threshold of dislike or not :)

Doug Belshaw · 1 year ago

Thanks for clearing things up about the diagram, Chris. You're use of del.icio.us' Linkrolls may be slightly better, but the fact that almost the entire front page of your blog is 'Twitter asides' really grates... :-s

John · 1 year ago

Hi Doug,
Some similar discussion here: Opinions about auto-blogged social bookmark lists? » Moving at the Speed of Creativity
I like del.icio.us links in feeds. I use netNewsWire or vienna and it is easy enough to skip them if I am in a hurry. I find it interesting to watch someone's thought-trails and del.icio.us links can do this. I splice my del.icio.us with feedburner so they don't go on my blog. I guess one could offer with and without links feeds.

John Connell · 1 year ago

Interesting list, Doug.

On George Siemens' point around pedagogy .v. context, my question would be, how do we separate the two? Is our choice of pedagogy in any particular situation not determined to a large extent by context, or at least our interpretation, as teachers, of the context in which the teaching and learning happen?

On the other hand, maybe it depends on our definition of context. I'll have to think about that one :-)

By the way, as someone who was thinking of starting to list delicious links, maybe once or twice a week, I'm not sure I understand your issues re your RSS reader. I use Netvibes and can't really say that such link-lists give me a problem.

Richard Smart · 1 year ago

Thanks for this compilation Doug... it is good to see what you are reading.

Drop.io is phenomenal... I just uploaded a video and embedded it into my Moodle for free without having to publish it on Youtube... fantastic:) Thanks for solving yet another of my problems!

Richard

Chris L · 1 year ago

To each their own! I consider the links I select and annotate and the twittering-- which has links more often than not-- to all be a kind of blogging. Not sure why people would want to separate them... or why they are fit for only one place or the other.

Pragmatically, I also want my selected links and general twitters (notice that I don't feed @directed twitters or all del.icio.us links) to be unified when searching on my site (for my purposes as much as yours).

Links and general Twitters get posted once per day-- if the front page is mostly those entries, then that's because I have nothing longer form to say. I used to try to post nearly every day no matter what, but the availability of micro-form tools made me realize that most of it was just puffed up. If what needs to be said can be said with a Twitter or an annotated link, why puff the article up with more? I don't see how my del.icio.us linklog links, for example, are any different than this post.

cheers.

Chris L · 1 year ago

I should add that I do, eventually, plan to move those posts in the site design so that only the most recent one is shown, probably in a sidebar section for the most recent day of non-directed Twitter posts and the most recent day of selected links... but since they will still be posts they will still show up in the feed reader as normal... not sure what to do about that short of providing feeds of everything but those things, or one or the other... at which point it becomes more complicated than it's probably worth to me!

alexa · 1 year ago

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asiaman · 1 year ago

Alexa,
thanks for the info, will check it out. I did not know, now I do.

Paul Heming · 1 year ago

Top post Doug and some good links.

Paul