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by Howard Rheingold
"When millions of people carry Internet connections in their pockets, the focus of communications shifts from places to individuals - with significant implications for the way we think of ourselves and the shape of our social institutions. "
I Heard it through the Grapevine:
Making knowledge management work by learning to share knowledge, skills and experience
by Peter Cook
Abstract
This article explores the challenge of getting people to willingly share knowledge skills and experience, so that their organisations may gain leverage their collective intelligence. It does so by addressing links between knowledge management and organisational learning to increase the speed and targeting of intelligence across organisations.
There is a significant role for training and learning specialists in eroding the practical and political barriers to making knowledge management a reality. A case study, expressed in the form of a mini-scenario is used to illustrate how learning is a crucial ingredient that assists people to work smarter.
Key principles for breaking down barriers to implementing knowledge management are developed for adaptation to particular organisations.
Using SMS as a way of providing connection and community for first year students
Louise Horstmanshof
Griffith Institute for Higher Education
Griffith University
Abstract:
"Technology provides one means of meeting the challenge of providing for frequent and meaningful interaction amongst students and staff which underpins students' feelings of being valued, leading to deeper and more meaningful engagement university studies (Pascarella & Terenzini, 1991). The challenge lies in providing for interaction in an environment where students and casual academic staff are spending less time on campus as a result of busy and complex lives. This paper relates the experiences of one lecturer/tutor using texting to stay in contact with her students and how this contact has supported and encouraged students to persist. It also discusses some of the implications for using mobile telephony to provide connection and community for first year students in higher education. "
This brief article about public participation comes to the conclusion that "it may just be that participation is peripheral to the way most people lead their lives. They/we are mostly concerned with relationships - with friends, family, workmates, interest groups and so on. Public officials, politicans and their facilitator helpers are at the edge of vision, unless there is a big threat or opportunity..... new airport planned, neighbourhood renewal proposed, school threatened with closure. Then we get interested."
ePortfolios: a portal site
The ePortfolio Portal serves as a resource to assist you in gaining knowledge around the concepts of eportfolios.
"You'll be introduced to the concept of an eportfolio, the brief history of the electronic portfolio building upon a much longer heritage of portfolios in general, and other information framing the eportfolio concept"
