University of Alaska Internship

This blog is to account for a 2 week internship to be served at the Centre of Distance Education (CDE), University of Alaska, Fairbanks. This internship has been greatly supported by CDE & participants are Anare Tuitoga, Neelam Narayan and Alanieta Lesuma-Fatiaki.

Thursday, December 15, 2005

Foundation Theory and Social Software


Had a session this morning (Thursday here) on Foundation Theory and Social Software (Weblogs, Wikis,RSS, Podcasting, etc). This was conducted by Chris Lott (in the pic). It was a very interesting and fruitful session. Chris started the presentation by explaining the theoretical background of social software. Most of the instructors at UAF are using Weblogs, Wikis and Podcasting in their courses for interaction and also for assessment purposes. In the presentation, Chris showed three models of moderating discussion boards effectively and the third model was the most effective one. Pita, this will be definitely of interest to you.

Podcasting was a totally new thing for us to discover but I guess our Online IDs may be familiar with it. It entails audio content that is delivered by an RSS feed presenting a downloadable or streaming file. In other words, Podcasting is the downloading of audio broadcasts to the iPod. iPod is an electronic gizmo that allows downloading of audio files and is battery operated. Well this is just a brief outline of the session we attended this morning and a link to Chris Lott's presentaion will be added soon. Stay tuned for Future Technology & Web Trends coming up soon!

posted by Neel @ 1:25 PM  

4 Comments:

  • At 2:18 PM, Blogger Ala Lesuma-Fatiaki said…

    Just to add on, podcasts are not restricted to ipods only. Any battery operated audio device will do to allow the audio feeds to the web.

     

  • At 10:53 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Ala - I was very intersted in this post - when might you be putting up the link to Chris' presentation. There was some interest at the ASCILITE conference last week about podcasting - there was a poster session by Anthony Chan & Mark Lee ... see if you can get to this link:
    http://www.ascilite.org.au/conferences/brisbane05/blogs/index.php
    and scroll down to the poster session section. It's called: Venturing beyond recorded lectures: Using podcasting to give a voice to learners in higher education.
    I also heard from the Elluminate rep that in the first quarter of next year they will be adding a feature to download the audio tracks of Elluminate sessions to mp3 players.

     

  • At 9:16 AM, Blogger Ala Lesuma-Fatiaki said…

    Hi Debra,

    Good to hear from you. We will putting up Chris's presentation link sometime today. Thanks for sharing the ascilite info. & the piece about Elluminate. very interesting development!! am missing Alaska already. this is our last day in CDE!!! Happy Holidays!!!

     

  • At 4:59 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Ala - i'm looking forward to seeing the presentation link - thanks.
    Hope you enjoy a great last day there! It sounds like you all had a very profitable (& memorable) experience. :-)

     

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