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Moving on...sniff
I haven't been blogging for a while now and think that a new truth about enzyte start with another blogging platform might kickstart my efforts. 'Blogger we've had some good times have'nt we. It's not you, it's me and I have found another I hope you understand. It's for the best. Goodbye...' I have now moved to Wordpress at http://networklearning.wordpress.com Intro to Camstudio and screencasts Click to Play Formats available: Microsoft Video (.avi), Flash Video (.flv) Labels: screencast Moodle + Hot potatoes makes creating a summative student quiz a breeze Click to Play Check it out. Moodle is easy, I have had many teachers exclaim 'This is just what I want' when I present the tools and this assessment technique. Power-law distribution and openess - Be brave take the jump.
Have you heard of the 'Power-law distribution' law, it asserts that 80 percent of productivity within an organisation or company will be done by 20 percent of employees, or in other edu-blogging terms 80 percent of edu-blogging within an educational organisation will be done by 20 percent of edu-bloggers and that's being incredibly optimistic (80% itself could be quite low output!) Hold that thought.
‘You’ve got to be crazy if you want to start a wiki operation from scratch you have got to have a sustainable community’ Fair enough, but is this sustainable? Probably not based on ‘Power-law distribution’. Why bother with in house software installs? Some valid reasons to... Enable closed environments for privacy No matter what technological solution the organisation invests it's time and money into as per the 'Power-law distribution' law they will still be reliant on a limited pool of enthusiastic innovators to develop skills and expertise and share with the rest of the organisation. Whereby 20% of staff (If your're lucky) will do the edu-blogging work in addition they will probably want to forgoe the carefully executed in house system and do their own thing using whatever technology they choose to keep up with the ever changing e-learning market. This is a good thing for organisation innovation. So where is the sustainable profitiable and quality educational solution to the 80:20 problem for the progressive education organisation looking to implement edu-blogging and networked learning systems for their staff? Support for any of the open learning mediawiki systems such as http://wikipedia.org/ that have an active community base, contributors and flow of vistors look set to provide a sustainable and business solution for organisation's that recognise the benefits of taking the road less travelled and systematically going open. For example, it's early days but the business oppportunities are out there for the early adopters of http://wikieducator.org/ which has: 4000 visitors per week and rising (Sep 07)- great organisational branding and marketing opportunities In terms of cost effectivess and achieving business objectives systemisating the use of open teaching and learning technologies such as wikipedia and wikieducator for accessing, marketing and developing your organisation's educational resources under creative commons is a sound business and educational decision. |