An interpretivist study of the social web and PLNs

December 2008 Blog Posts (5)

edonis project - December update

* Collated responses to the Part 1 survey are available here

* on the right-hand side of this site are regularly updated posts from some participants' blogs, which many will find a useful insight into education, worldwide

* the project will continue with Part 4, week beginning January 12th. From this week onwards, some interviews will begin to become available on this site

* details of Parts 1 and 2 are… Continue

Added by David Noble on December 21, 2008 at 22:30 — No Comments

Details of David's edonis methodology and EdD writings blog

I have started a blog at http://edonisproject.blogspot.com. I will be posting weekly, extended writings relating to the edonis methodology, and essays on Education and Public Policy, Perspectives on Professional Practice, and Qualitative Analysis.

Recent posts are edonis project - introduction I & II.

Added by David Noble on December 18, 2008 at 13:36 — 2 Comments

Next Generation User Skills

We have just commissioned a report on where we need to do work with adult learners around Digital Literacy.
You'll find it link to NGUS Report on my blog or SQA Home Page - through my profile.
While I assume most of you will be able to perform low level tasks how many of your peers are really digitally literate.

Have we got this right ?

Added by Joe Wilson on December 16, 2008 at 19:38 — No Comments

Wordle representation of edonis participants' profiles as at 29th November 2008

From www.wordle.net - "Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text."

Added by David Noble on December 2, 2008 at 0:22 — No Comments

Part 1 survey results

At the start of November, I posted a survey on SurveyMonkey which stated; "I have listed some examples of the 'social web'. I would like you to indicate your involvement in, or use of, each of these over the last 6 months, either in your personal or professional life." I also asked participants to indicate which of these activities they had ever done using a mobile device.

Sixty-seven participants responded. The findings are below (apologies if, like me, you need to… Continue

Added by David Noble on December 2, 2008 at 0:11 — 6 Comments