Knowledge Sharing with Distributed Networking Tools

Presentation by Sean Fitzgerald and Leigh Blackall - recording available at http://home.learningtimes.net/lta?go=t971019 (you will need to register to login)

From the 2005 Cool Results Online Event

There is such a rich wiki resource to go with this presentation at http://networkedlearning.wikispaces.org/knowledge+sharing that my notes are pretty thin. I think their wiki will become a great resource to recommend to people interested in getting started in this area.

Leigh and Sean talked about the change in the Web to one of mass publlishing of content. Just as easy to create content as it is to consume. Wikipedia is different to a regular encyclopedia, in that pace with which current events are updated and mass contribution. Tools/ services/ ideas talked about include Blogger, Bloglines, RSS, Wikipedia, Creative Commons, Rip Mix & Feed, Networked Learning etc

At the end of the presentation there was some discussion about whether this is all posssible within the constraints of large educational insititutions, whether we should go outside of the organisation etc. One person asked if there is a risk that through going outside we risk leaving other teachers behind who are not so confident with working outside the system. I am not sure about this issue. I am certainly happy to work both within and outside the system, but I guess each time I go to set up a new space (or whatever) then I do consider where and what it should be. Through using tools such as RSS then maybe we can bring it together more? Last year it took a bit of work before the event to ensure that teachers could participate from work in the online Networking conference online using elluminate and wimba, but with the planning and preparation that went into it, most people were able to access it. With this event I have not needed to do anything special to access the presentations online (except for patience when my comptuer crashed but that could have happened anywhere) :-) Great when technology works!