What about a free for all once a month for (say) three days. (Like the first three days of the month)
"What's on Top, Things we're Into, Things We notice, Questions I've Got"
Derek Chirnside
Posts made by Derek Chirnside
I'm a lot like you describe here as well Diane (But not 43 groups!!). I try to ration my attention to what is important to balance several things:
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[Tangential comment follows. Hit delete if you are busy]
I've also been thinking about what I dip into and how.
I am now on day 18 of a personal experiment: we've stopped getting the daily newspaper delivered. The initial reason was to provide some more focus for a son in the critical minutes between 6.45am and school, and to get some focus on planning the day for the disparate individuals who live and visit the house. But it has become more than that because of a book I have been reading: Neil Postman's "Amusing ourselves to Death". [He wrote "Teaching as a Subversive Activity" which was hugely influential on many of us]
His Chapter 5 "The Peek-a-Boo World" has led me to examine what I dip into each day and why.
[I don't have time to converge my thoughts totally coherently and type them up. At the risk of wasting your time I'll insert a small quote from http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Students/jog9901.html
Neil Postman died in 2003. I wonder what he thought of the internet? And Youtube/TeacherTube and podcasting?
So:
a) In the internet world I have been paying attention to my RSS feeds for NEWS. In my experiment several times I have had access to the paper after checking some headlines or listening to a radio bulletin and asked myself as I flip through the paper,"have I missed anything I needed to know?"
At the moment, feeds are winning. But the information is a bit more than I can cope with.
But I would have missed some great letters to the editor, some quirky stuff . . . And some advertisements I am interested in. :-)
b) Two stories I have followed ONLY online: the teenagers who 1) hacked the Aussie internet filter and 2) hacked the iphone. I have got diverted into other stories about Owen Wilson and Mrs Clinton.
c) Yesterday I found myself with the laptop open on the dining room table during morning coffee surfing the news. OH NO!!
Have a nice weekend.
- My current projects
- My future thinking towards future projects/learning - what might be of interest.
- My buddies and their activities/needs. Very important.
- Pure fun.
================================================================
[Tangential comment follows. Hit delete if you are busy]
I've also been thinking about what I dip into and how.
I am now on day 18 of a personal experiment: we've stopped getting the daily newspaper delivered. The initial reason was to provide some more focus for a son in the critical minutes between 6.45am and school, and to get some focus on planning the day for the disparate individuals who live and visit the house. But it has become more than that because of a book I have been reading: Neil Postman's "Amusing ourselves to Death". [He wrote "Teaching as a Subversive Activity" which was hugely influential on many of us]
His Chapter 5 "The Peek-a-Boo World" has led me to examine what I dip into each day and why.
- How do I keep up?
- What do I want to keep up with?
- What do I NEED to know?
- What do I do with what I read?
- The personal interest/work divide (which sometimes blends)
[I don't have time to converge my thoughts totally coherently and type them up. At the risk of wasting your time I'll insert a small quote from http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Students/jog9901.html
Postman saw the advent of the telegraph as the turning point in what was later to become, in his eyes, a spiralling effect. With the telegraph came the notion that information no longer ‘derived its importance from the possibilities of action.’ The telegraph conquered space, and news thenceforth was of a national variety, having no bearing on local communities and neither therefore, on individuals. Hand in hand with the telegraph came the ‘assault of’ photography, which made a bid to replace the written word. Postman believes the former to be markedly inferior; it records the world rather than comments on it, for which language is needed, language that has categorised a world of flux and infinite variety in a way that is not possible in a photograph. This cemented the nefarious effect of telegraphic news by giving faces to the names of the people in what had become ‘irrelevant’, national news. Both the telegraph and the photograph were moments frozen in time without real context or content, throw away information that heralds Postman’s ‘peek- boo-world’ where we are entertained by an event that vanishes as soon as it arrived.
"Only in the printed word, he states, could complicated truths be rationally conveyed. A striking example Postman gives: that the first fifteen U.S. presidents could probably have walked down the street without being recognized by the average citizen, yet all these men would have been quickly known by their written words. However, the reverse is true today. The names of presidents or even famous preachers, lawyers, and scientists call up visual images, typically television images, but few, if any, words come to mind. The few that do almost exclusively consist of carefully-chosen soundbites" (Wikipedia)]
Also:
Plus: Neil ate with vice-president Gore, spoke to the assembly at Davos Switzerland, and was the direct influence on Roger Waters’ (the former Pink Floyd lead-singer) stunning solo album, Amused to Death, a fact which single-handedly increased the enrollment numbers at NYU’s Media Ecology program. (The New Pantagruel)
"Only in the printed word, he states, could complicated truths be rationally conveyed. A striking example Postman gives: that the first fifteen U.S. presidents could probably have walked down the street without being recognized by the average citizen, yet all these men would have been quickly known by their written words. However, the reverse is true today. The names of presidents or even famous preachers, lawyers, and scientists call up visual images, typically television images, but few, if any, words come to mind. The few that do almost exclusively consist of carefully-chosen soundbites" (Wikipedia)]
Also:
Plus: Neil ate with vice-president Gore, spoke to the assembly at Davos Switzerland, and was the direct influence on Roger Waters’ (the former Pink Floyd lead-singer) stunning solo album, Amused to Death, a fact which single-handedly increased the enrollment numbers at NYU’s Media Ecology program. (The New Pantagruel)
Neil Postman died in 2003. I wonder what he thought of the internet? And Youtube/TeacherTube and podcasting?
So:
a) In the internet world I have been paying attention to my RSS feeds for NEWS. In my experiment several times I have had access to the paper after checking some headlines or listening to a radio bulletin and asked myself as I flip through the paper,"have I missed anything I needed to know?"
At the moment, feeds are winning. But the information is a bit more than I can cope with.
But I would have missed some great letters to the editor, some quirky stuff . . . And some advertisements I am interested in. :-)
b) Two stories I have followed ONLY online: the teenagers who 1) hacked the Aussie internet filter and 2) hacked the iphone. I have got diverted into other stories about Owen Wilson and Mrs Clinton.
c) Yesterday I found myself with the laptop open on the dining room table during morning coffee surfing the news. OH NO!!
Have a nice weekend.
I'm a lot like you describe here as well Diane (But not 43 groups!!). I try to ration my attention to what is important to balance several things:
================================================================
[Tangential comment follows. Hit delete if you are busy]
I've also been thinking about what I dip into and how.
I am now on day 18 of a personal experiment: we've stopped getting the daily newspaper delivered. The initial reason was to provide some more focus for a son in the critical minutes between 6.45am and school, and to get some focus on planning the day for the disparate individuals who live and visit the house. But it has become more than that because of a book I have been reading: Neil Postman's "Amusing ourselves to Death". [He wrote "Teaching as a Subversive Activity" which was hugely influential on many of us]
His Chapter 5 "The Peek-a-Boo World" has led me to examine what I dip into each day and why.
[I don't have time to converge my thoughts totally coherently and type them up. At the risk of wasting your time I'll insert a small quote from http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Students/jog9901.html
Neil Postman died in 2003. I wonder what he thought of the internet? And Youtube/TeacherTube and podcasting?
So:
a) In the internet world I have been paying attention to my RSS feeds for NEWS. In my experiment several times I have had access to the paper after checking some headlines or listening to a radio bulletin and asked myself as I flip through the paper,"have I missed anything I needed to know?"
At the moment, feeds are winning. But the information is a bit more than I can cope with.
But I would have missed some great letters to the editor, some quirky stuff . . . And some advertisements I am interested in. :-)
b) Two stories I have followed ONLY online: the teenagers who 1) hacked the Aussie internet filter and 2) hacked the iphone. I have got diverted into other stories about Owen Wilson and Mrs Clinton.
c) Yesterday I found myself with the laptop open on the dining room table during morning coffee surfing the news. OH NO!!
Have a nice weekend.
- My current projects
- My future thinking towards future projects/learning - what might be of interest.
- My buddies and their activities/needs. Very important.
- Pure fun.
================================================================
[Tangential comment follows. Hit delete if you are busy]
I've also been thinking about what I dip into and how.
I am now on day 18 of a personal experiment: we've stopped getting the daily newspaper delivered. The initial reason was to provide some more focus for a son in the critical minutes between 6.45am and school, and to get some focus on planning the day for the disparate individuals who live and visit the house. But it has become more than that because of a book I have been reading: Neil Postman's "Amusing ourselves to Death". [He wrote "Teaching as a Subversive Activity" which was hugely influential on many of us]
His Chapter 5 "The Peek-a-Boo World" has led me to examine what I dip into each day and why.
- How do I keep up?
- What do I want to keep up with?
- What do I NEED to know?
- What do I do with what I read?
- The personal interest/work divide (which sometimes blends)
[I don't have time to converge my thoughts totally coherently and type them up. At the risk of wasting your time I'll insert a small quote from http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Students/jog9901.html
Postman saw the advent of the telegraph as the turning point in what was later to become, in his eyes, a spiralling effect. With the telegraph came the notion that information no longer ‘derived its importance from the possibilities of action.’ The telegraph conquered space, and news thenceforth was of a national variety, having no bearing on local communities and neither therefore, on individuals. Hand in hand with the telegraph came the ‘assault of’ photography, which made a bid to replace the written word. Postman believes the former to be markedly inferior; it records the world rather than comments on it, for which language is needed, language that has categorised a world of flux and infinite variety in a way that is not possible in a photograph. This cemented the nefarious effect of telegraphic news by giving faces to the names of the people in what had become ‘irrelevant’, national news. Both the telegraph and the photograph were moments frozen in time without real context or content, throw away information that heralds Postman’s ‘peek- boo-world’ where we are entertained by an event that vanishes as soon as it arrived.
"Only in the printed word, he states, could complicated truths be rationally conveyed. A striking example Postman gives: that the first fifteen U.S. presidents could probably have walked down the street without being recognized by the average citizen, yet all these men would have been quickly known by their written words. However, the reverse is true today. The names of presidents or even famous preachers, lawyers, and scientists call up visual images, typically television images, but few, if any, words come to mind. The few that do almost exclusively consist of carefully-chosen soundbites" (Wikipedia)]
Also:
Plus: Neil ate with vice-president Gore, spoke to the assembly at Davos Switzerland, and was the direct influence on Roger Waters’ (the former Pink Floyd lead-singer) stunning solo album, Amused to Death, a fact which single-handedly increased the enrollment numbers at NYU’s Media Ecology program. (The New Pantagruel)
"Only in the printed word, he states, could complicated truths be rationally conveyed. A striking example Postman gives: that the first fifteen U.S. presidents could probably have walked down the street without being recognized by the average citizen, yet all these men would have been quickly known by their written words. However, the reverse is true today. The names of presidents or even famous preachers, lawyers, and scientists call up visual images, typically television images, but few, if any, words come to mind. The few that do almost exclusively consist of carefully-chosen soundbites" (Wikipedia)]
Also:
Plus: Neil ate with vice-president Gore, spoke to the assembly at Davos Switzerland, and was the direct influence on Roger Waters’ (the former Pink Floyd lead-singer) stunning solo album, Amused to Death, a fact which single-handedly increased the enrollment numbers at NYU’s Media Ecology program. (The New Pantagruel)
Neil Postman died in 2003. I wonder what he thought of the internet? And Youtube/TeacherTube and podcasting?
So:
a) In the internet world I have been paying attention to my RSS feeds for NEWS. In my experiment several times I have had access to the paper after checking some headlines or listening to a radio bulletin and asked myself as I flip through the paper,"have I missed anything I needed to know?"
At the moment, feeds are winning. But the information is a bit more than I can cope with.
But I would have missed some great letters to the editor, some quirky stuff . . . And some advertisements I am interested in. :-)
b) Two stories I have followed ONLY online: the teenagers who 1) hacked the Aussie internet filter and 2) hacked the iphone. I have got diverted into other stories about Owen Wilson and Mrs Clinton.
c) Yesterday I found myself with the laptop open on the dining room table during morning coffee surfing the news. OH NO!!
Have a nice weekend.
This is some thinking aloud here, and my thoughts went on a little longer than I expected.
We are traversing a whole range of tools: RSS feeds, delicious, zotero, marginalia, e-mail notifications . . . (Twitter? is this a tool?)
This is partly PLE territory that Ron and Michelle (among others) have so eloquently described.
RSS. I have found RSS better for blogs or news feeds than for forums.
I can get posts like this:
BUT: I can just ignore these posts in a feed.
AND: if I want to keep tabs on a discussion (and sort of half be there) (just in case) then RSS is fine. But I return to the discussion to engage.
MAYBE: there is a better RSS reader than bloglines for this purpose. Or run a second reader just for forums? (Not a good idea)
By the way: (getting onto my soapbox here) if you are not using an aggregator, then I suggest this is a key thing to work on. And if you have no blogs or newsfeeds to follow, start with RSS feeds for the ScOPE discussions and just see what it is like for you . . . )
TAGS. I use delicious to manage my history (pages I have found useful) and my destiny (pages I may one day want to recall). At the page level. But up until now I've NOT tagged posts in forums or forum threads.
I've not found tagging has relevance for me in managing the ongoing flow of interaction.
The exception is my delicious network. People do send me the odd tag in delicious - like a personal human operated feed - especially if we are working on a shared project. Odly enough - most of these people I actually SEE regularly. :-)
I think these concepts (TAG and RSS) are sort of distinct, and probably both need to be taken into account in our interaction with ScOPE... There is one more function, that of *managing connections*, the ideas that flow through the forums and threads.
ZOTERO. Emma mentioned this:
From Re: Which social bookmarking tool by emmadw on Tuesday, 20 February 2007 4:40:00 a.m.:
I've also been experimenting with Zotero - that's not a social tool at all, (nor, at the moment, does it work with Flock); however, it's a very useful bibliographic tool for students (it's a firefox plugin). It saves (and can save screenshots etc) information locally - which could be a good or a bad thing, depending on the way you work - and you can add information about books, films etc., (i.e. not just web-based materials).
This is more personal in that it manages things on our HDD. I think they are working towards sharing . . .
This, at a personal level, can manage connections. To a certain rudimentary level.
MARGINALIA. [I too forget the hot keys :-)]
Mentally, now that I stop to think about it, I think I see my use of annotations *only* at the engagement in ONE seminar level - ie things to come back to in the next week or so - and I have NOT used it regularly or often.
A couple of times an annotation post when in a hurry I have finished into a post - in this sense I am using it as a draft function for a post.
I don't go back to my annotations for site wide activity. 1) Like Sylvia, I use serach for this. 2) It's not quite up there with delicious - yet.
In some respects, it mixes two radically different functions: the 'cut and paste' referencing (which is really cool) and annotations - but it is not really a tagging function.
In my opinion, it helps with linking (quicker to reference a post inside Moodle) - a function no-one has yet got going for the web in a simple, intuitive sense. It's the tracking of the meme - how do we do it?
Summary:
I see the need for at least five functions:
1. Tagging - shared
2. A tool set to manage flow of interactions and information while a seminar is in progress.
3. Something to help with links, connections across threads and forums . . . (What, I have no idea!!) When a meme or new idea emerges, it may be scattered over a lot of places.
4. The instant connections: something to allow for the the twitter/IM area. This is the fun/wild west part of things. :-)
5. And a buzzer to remind you when it is time for coffee.
How do these fit with SCoPE?
Of course No tools work without practices, habits and routines.
Off into the day. We had an eclipse last night but unfortunately it was cloudy. - Derek
We are traversing a whole range of tools: RSS feeds, delicious, zotero, marginalia, e-mail notifications . . . (Twitter? is this a tool?)
This is partly PLE territory that Ron and Michelle (among others) have so eloquently described.
RSS. I have found RSS better for blogs or news feeds than for forums.
I can get posts like this:
"I agree Joe. I find the same thing happens to me"
Here there is no context, and it is better to be in the threaded view in a forum.
BUT: I can just ignore these posts in a feed.
AND: if I want to keep tabs on a discussion (and sort of half be there) (just in case) then RSS is fine. But I return to the discussion to engage.
MAYBE: there is a better RSS reader than bloglines for this purpose. Or run a second reader just for forums? (Not a good idea)
By the way: (getting onto my soapbox here) if you are not using an aggregator, then I suggest this is a key thing to work on. And if you have no blogs or newsfeeds to follow, start with RSS feeds for the ScOPE discussions and just see what it is like for you . . . )
TAGS. I use delicious to manage my history (pages I have found useful) and my destiny (pages I may one day want to recall). At the page level. But up until now I've NOT tagged posts in forums or forum threads.
I've not found tagging has relevance for me in managing the ongoing flow of interaction.
The exception is my delicious network. People do send me the odd tag in delicious - like a personal human operated feed - especially if we are working on a shared project. Odly enough - most of these people I actually SEE regularly. :-)
I think these concepts (TAG and RSS) are sort of distinct, and probably both need to be taken into account in our interaction with ScOPE... There is one more function, that of *managing connections*, the ideas that flow through the forums and threads.
ZOTERO. Emma mentioned this:
From Re: Which social bookmarking tool by emmadw on Tuesday, 20 February 2007 4:40:00 a.m.:
I've also been experimenting with Zotero - that's not a social tool at all, (nor, at the moment, does it work with Flock); however, it's a very useful bibliographic tool for students (it's a firefox plugin). It saves (and can save screenshots etc) information locally - which could be a good or a bad thing, depending on the way you work - and you can add information about books, films etc., (i.e. not just web-based materials).
This is more personal in that it manages things on our HDD. I think they are working towards sharing . . .
This, at a personal level, can manage connections. To a certain rudimentary level.
MARGINALIA. [I too forget the hot keys :-)]
Mentally, now that I stop to think about it, I think I see my use of annotations *only* at the engagement in ONE seminar level - ie things to come back to in the next week or so - and I have NOT used it regularly or often.
A couple of times an annotation post when in a hurry I have finished into a post - in this sense I am using it as a draft function for a post.
I don't go back to my annotations for site wide activity. 1) Like Sylvia, I use serach for this. 2) It's not quite up there with delicious - yet.
In some respects, it mixes two radically different functions: the 'cut and paste' referencing (which is really cool) and annotations - but it is not really a tagging function.
In my opinion, it helps with linking (quicker to reference a post inside Moodle) - a function no-one has yet got going for the web in a simple, intuitive sense. It's the tracking of the meme - how do we do it?
Summary:
I see the need for at least five functions:
1. Tagging - shared
2. A tool set to manage flow of interactions and information while a seminar is in progress.
3. Something to help with links, connections across threads and forums . . . (What, I have no idea!!) When a meme or new idea emerges, it may be scattered over a lot of places.
4. The instant connections: something to allow for the the twitter/IM area. This is the fun/wild west part of things. :-)
5. And a buzzer to remind you when it is time for coffee.
How do these fit with SCoPE?
Of course No tools work without practices, habits and routines.
Off into the day. We had an eclipse last night but unfortunately it was cloudy. - Derek
This is some thinking aloud here, and my thoughts went on a little longer than I expected.
We are traversing a whole range of tools: RSS feeds, delicious, zotero, marginalia, e-mail notifications . . . (Twitter? is this a tool?)
This is partly PLE territory that Ron and Michelle (among others) have so eloquently described.
RSS. I have found RSS better for blogs or news feeds than for forums.
I can get posts like this:
BUT: I can just ignore these posts in a feed.
AND: if I want to keep tabs on a discussion (and sort of half be there) (just in case) then RSS is fine. But I return to the discussion to engage.
MAYBE: there is a better RSS reader than bloglines for this purpose. Or run a second reader just for forums? (Not a good idea)
By the way: (getting onto my soapbox here) if you are not using an aggregator, then I suggest this is a key thing to work on. And if you have no blogs or newsfeeds to follow, start with RSS feeds for the ScOPE discussions and just see what it is like for you . . . )
TAGS. I use delicious to manage my history (pages I have found useful) and my destiny (pages I may one day want to recall). At the page level. But up until now I've NOT tagged posts in forums or forum threads.
I've not found tagging has relevance for me in managing the ongoing flow of interaction.
The exception is my delicious network. People do send me the odd tag in delicious - like a personal human operated feed - especially if we are working on a shared project. Odly enough - most of these people I actually SEE regularly. :-)
I think these concepts (TAG and RSS) are sort of distinct, and probably both need to be taken into account in our interaction with ScOPE... There is one more function, that of *managing connections*, the ideas that flow through the forums and threads.
ZOTERO. Emma mentioned this:
From Re: Which social bookmarking tool by emmadw on Tuesday, 20 February 2007 4:40:00 a.m.:
I've also been experimenting with Zotero - that's not a social tool at all, (nor, at the moment, does it work with Flock); however, it's a very useful bibliographic tool for students (it's a firefox plugin). It saves (and can save screenshots etc) information locally - which could be a good or a bad thing, depending on the way you work - and you can add information about books, films etc., (i.e. not just web-based materials).
This is more personal in that it manages things on our HDD. I think they are working towards sharing . . .
This, at a personal level, can manage connections. To a certain rudimentary level.
MARGINALIA. [I too forget the hot keys :-)]
Mentally, now that I stop to think about it, I think I see my use of annotations *only* at the engagement in ONE seminar level - ie things to come back to in the next week or so - and I have NOT used it regularly or often.
A couple of times an annotation post when in a hurry I have finished into a post - in this sense I am using it as a draft function for a post.
I don't go back to my annotations for site wide activity. 1) Like Sylvia, I use serach for this. 2) It's not quite up there with delicious - yet.
In some respects, it mixes two radically different functions: the 'cut and paste' referencing (which is really cool) and annotations - but it is not really a tagging function.
In my opinion, it helps with linking (quicker to reference a post inside Moodle) - a function no-one has yet got going for the web in a simple, intuitive sense. It's the tracking of the meme - how do we do it?
Summary:
I see the need for at least five functions:
1. Tagging - shared
2. A tool set to manage flow of interactions and information while a seminar is in progress.
3. Something to help with links, connections across threads and forums . . . (What, I have no idea!!) When a meme or new idea emerges, it may be scattered over a lot of places.
4. The instant connections: something to allow for the the twitter/IM area. This is the fun/wild west part of things. :-)
5. And a buzzer to remind you when it is time for coffee.
How do these fit with SCoPE?
Of course No tools work without practices, habits and routines.
Off into the day. We had an eclipse last night but unfortunately it was cloudy. - Derek
We are traversing a whole range of tools: RSS feeds, delicious, zotero, marginalia, e-mail notifications . . . (Twitter? is this a tool?)
This is partly PLE territory that Ron and Michelle (among others) have so eloquently described.
RSS. I have found RSS better for blogs or news feeds than for forums.
I can get posts like this:
"I agree Joe. I find the same thing happens to me"
Here there is no context, and it is better to be in the threaded view in a forum.
BUT: I can just ignore these posts in a feed.
AND: if I want to keep tabs on a discussion (and sort of half be there) (just in case) then RSS is fine. But I return to the discussion to engage.
MAYBE: there is a better RSS reader than bloglines for this purpose. Or run a second reader just for forums? (Not a good idea)
By the way: (getting onto my soapbox here) if you are not using an aggregator, then I suggest this is a key thing to work on. And if you have no blogs or newsfeeds to follow, start with RSS feeds for the ScOPE discussions and just see what it is like for you . . . )
TAGS. I use delicious to manage my history (pages I have found useful) and my destiny (pages I may one day want to recall). At the page level. But up until now I've NOT tagged posts in forums or forum threads.
I've not found tagging has relevance for me in managing the ongoing flow of interaction.
The exception is my delicious network. People do send me the odd tag in delicious - like a personal human operated feed - especially if we are working on a shared project. Odly enough - most of these people I actually SEE regularly. :-)
I think these concepts (TAG and RSS) are sort of distinct, and probably both need to be taken into account in our interaction with ScOPE... There is one more function, that of *managing connections*, the ideas that flow through the forums and threads.
ZOTERO. Emma mentioned this:
From Re: Which social bookmarking tool by emmadw on Tuesday, 20 February 2007 4:40:00 a.m.:
I've also been experimenting with Zotero - that's not a social tool at all, (nor, at the moment, does it work with Flock); however, it's a very useful bibliographic tool for students (it's a firefox plugin). It saves (and can save screenshots etc) information locally - which could be a good or a bad thing, depending on the way you work - and you can add information about books, films etc., (i.e. not just web-based materials).
This is more personal in that it manages things on our HDD. I think they are working towards sharing . . .
This, at a personal level, can manage connections. To a certain rudimentary level.
MARGINALIA. [I too forget the hot keys :-)]
Mentally, now that I stop to think about it, I think I see my use of annotations *only* at the engagement in ONE seminar level - ie things to come back to in the next week or so - and I have NOT used it regularly or often.
A couple of times an annotation post when in a hurry I have finished into a post - in this sense I am using it as a draft function for a post.
I don't go back to my annotations for site wide activity. 1) Like Sylvia, I use serach for this. 2) It's not quite up there with delicious - yet.
In some respects, it mixes two radically different functions: the 'cut and paste' referencing (which is really cool) and annotations - but it is not really a tagging function.
In my opinion, it helps with linking (quicker to reference a post inside Moodle) - a function no-one has yet got going for the web in a simple, intuitive sense. It's the tracking of the meme - how do we do it?
Summary:
I see the need for at least five functions:
1. Tagging - shared
2. A tool set to manage flow of interactions and information while a seminar is in progress.
3. Something to help with links, connections across threads and forums . . . (What, I have no idea!!) When a meme or new idea emerges, it may be scattered over a lot of places.
4. The instant connections: something to allow for the the twitter/IM area. This is the fun/wild west part of things. :-)
5. And a buzzer to remind you when it is time for coffee.
How do these fit with SCoPE?
Of course No tools work without practices, habits and routines.
Off into the day. We had an eclipse last night but unfortunately it was cloudy. - Derek