http://donnacam.uniblogs.org Musings on the Nature of Online Community Tue, 28 Mar 2006 05:27:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So, some news to report... Passed second assignment in 696 with flying colours so I am ready to start the last assignment - the preliminary proposal. It appears that my thesis is actually evolving into a project as I have choosen to evaluate the effectiness of the Elgg software to promote the ... http://donnacam.uniblogs.org/2006/03/28/progress-to-report/ As I struggle to extricate myself from the world of children, flu’s and ear infections I find myself reading again about social networking and wondering just what the differences are between f2f networks and online networks. As always I defer back to a definition to get going: Wikipedia (and many ... http://donnacam.uniblogs.org/2006/03/20/social-network-ramblings/ Ok, finally have gathered some initial ideas for my thesis work on ESS. Still very much a work in progress so be gentle if you have a comment :-) Description of topic: My general topic of interest is how to reduce isolation and, in turn, increase connectedness for distance learners.  I have ... http://donnacam.uniblogs.org/2006/02/16/thesis-baby-step/ I think I have finally come to a better understanding of what Web 2.0 and Elearning 2.0 are thanks to: Stepehn Downes' "Web 2.0" [Click to view link] George Siemens's "Connectivism" [Click to view link] Downes discusses many of the technological aspects ... http://donnacam.uniblogs.org/2006/01/24/working-on-web-20/ Well, it is 3:55 am and officially the beginning of the end (even if the end is still very, very, very far off!)  I start my first thesis credit this week through Athabasca.  Planning to focus on some aspect of social software and/or blogging in education but still a bit ... http://donnacam.uniblogs.org/2006/01/13/thesis-work-has-begun/ This is written in response to Terry Anderson’s post called PLE’s versus LMS: Are PLEs ready for Prime time? James Farmer does a good job of answering some of the questions I have in The Inevitable Personal Learning ... http://donnacam.uniblogs.org/2006/01/13/6/ I am doing reading/research/writing into the use of blogs in education and will be including some thoughts and reactions relating to this topic over the next while. Keep in mind that these are just reflections on readings and a way to air out my ideas so ... http://donnacam.uniblogs.org/2006/01/13/blogs-versus-discussion-boards-%e2%80%93-we-can-let-some-things-go/ Alrighty - this is the first post to my very own blog. I have a blog on Me2U at Athabasca University (http://me2u.athabascau.ca/) but I feel the need to test out an individual blog. Kinda fun so far :-) I am a graduate student at Athabasca U and doing ... http://donnacam.uniblogs.org/2005/12/22/donawanablog-test/ Test 2 post to donawanablog site :-) I have already tried one but it is gone off into the blogoshere. "Open the pod bay doors, Hal..." http://donnacam.uniblogs.org/2005/12/22/hello-world/