Tag Archives: Educational Technology

What makes up a badge?

One of the discussions I was particularly excited about at the Barcelona Drumbeat Festival was using badges to indicate certain skills, abilities, capacities, traits, or accomplishments. The idea here is what you might find in Boy Scout merit badges, or Foursquare badges, or Stack Overflow badges: a quick way to see what a person knows, [...]
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Opening Socialtext

Ross Mayfield has “preannounced”, along with some other news, that the wiki at the core of Socialtext will be open sourced in the near future. I’ve had a little bit of a chance to work with a Socialtext wiki, and have recommended them to others. But the fact remains that the barriers to entry made [...]
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Blackboard Blogging

Just flew into town and boy does my back hurt. Wait, I don’t know if I got that right. The Washington Post is running a few short articles on edublogging: an overview titled Blackboard Blogging, an article about the illustrious Will Richardson, a sidebar from Jessica, who is helping me out this semester, and an [...]
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Kindness of blog servers

Week before classes start. Everybody wants everything, now. I’m still working on things that needed to be done in 2005. And so, my blog server dies. No, not this one, the one that I set up for the students. And early next week, 400 students in my class, and many others in other classes are [...]
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Top 10 Wired Campus

When I arrived at the University at Buffalo, they advertised themselves as being #10 on Yahoo! magazine’s top 10 wired campuses. To be honest, I’m not at all sure how they got on the list, but they did, and they milked it for years after Yahoo! Internet Life was dead. Wired we might have been [...]
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