Moving the Project into gear 12,March 2006
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I am learning that my project “Opening Learning for Open Source Software” http://www.oloss.blogspot.com/ is going to prove a rather large enterprise.
So I have been mulling over what I am going to need to accomplish if I am to be able to achieve the impact that I believe is needed. Seeing the levels of expertise displayed by so many in the Unworkshop has caused me to take something of a reality check. This has resulted in an attempt to list what I am going to need to master and utilise.
1. A personal Knowlege Management system that will be private to me at least in the early days as I begin to assemble the information that supports my arguements.
- An Agregator that works smoothly looks essential. Pity about SuperGlu. I will watch with interest the work undertaken by Jay to get oneto run well.
- A tool like Squidoo looks extremely important too. I have been very impressed with the use made by Harold Jarche and Loretta Donovan.
- A wiki to use for composing the content that will eventually be published. At The moment I like the look of StikiPad but PBWiki would also be a contender. I am going to need good support for uploading files. I use MindManager for exploring all sorts of ideas and will want to layout maps and texts in the wiki.
2. In all of this I have got to get my head around tagging. For uncovering the research findings that underpin my ideas and for enabling the assemblly of information. So high on the list has to be some reading and some exploration of the del.icio.us and Technorati web sites.
3. A possible alternative for my own “personal learning landscape” could turn out to be Elgg Ihave much to explore here too. A look at http://elgg.net/tour_9.php will give an instant overview of the range of capabilities that are already built in. What is exciting is that Elgg is currently undergoing a period of extensive development.
Now if only my brain could keep up with the speed of ‘Internet Time’ I would feel on top of it rather than at the inflection point of the exponential curve.
As this is a one person project forthe forseeable futurethe priority has to be Tagging. See you later I have some web sites to surf!!
I like squidoo as a resource on a single topic. Perhaps we could find a way to build a collaborative squidoo site or at least link to each other. I could do with some help on squidoo as it’s just a sideline for me.
I find that the easiest aggregator to use on a personal basis is Bloglines. You can always export your OPML file to another system if you don’t like this web-based aggregator.
Not sure about delicious, as I started with Furl and now have over 600 articles Furled. Like you, I haven’t really got into tagging.
I think that Elgg is a great system, but unless you host your own system, you’ll have to use their free service. This is OK until you get to a point, with several hundred posts, when you want to own your own data. If I had to start anew, I would probably use Elgg, and recommend it to all my friends.
In terms of wikis, I’ve tried a few, and am currently checking out a very different one – http://www.tiddlywiki.com/