Archive for December, 2007

Dec 28 2007

Gathering experience with teleconferences

There’s a pattern that’s developed in CPsquare and that I’ve been purposeful in developing elsewhere. I think it has lots of good learning practice built into it.  I put it on a public Google doc for a while, but since I haven’t received any comments about it for a while, I decided it was stable [...]

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Dec 22 2007

Ground, Path and Fruition

Published byJohn David Smith under Coaching, Learning

Recently I read a wonderful article by Jean Lave where she asked the simple question, “what’s a learning theory?” and suggests some questions to ask about learning theory instances.
Jean Lave (1996) “Teaching, as Learning, in Practice” Mind, Culture, and Activity
3 (3), 149-164.
http://www.leaonline.com/doi/abs/10.1207/s15327884mca0303_2
On page 156 she says:
“[Martin Packer] asked [what a theory of learning consisted of] [...]

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Dec 17 2007

links for 2007-12-18

Published byJohn David Smith under Del.icio.us, tagging

The Tech FAQ
At the Tech FAQ, the technical answers you have been looking for are answered in detail, yet in a way the average person can understand.
(tags: technology faq dictionary howto hacks)

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Dec 15 2007

links for 2007-12-16

Published byJohn David Smith under Del.icio.us

Community profiles as patterns of orientation on Flickr – Photo Sharing!
Community orientations slide.
(tags: technologyforcommunity)

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Dec 09 2007

Finding the mute button on Skype

For some reason it’s sometimes hard to find the “mute” button on a Skype call. It’s not one of those things you usually pay attention to. But it can suddenly be very important to find it when someone is calling via a poor quality Internet connection that introduces clicks, echoes, and other [...]

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