This term I am doing a “conversational” course with a group of students, mashing a post-structuralist and an ecological discourse style. As you can read in the previous posts, my students agreed to use FaceBook (which is not as popular here in Germany as in the US, here every student is member of studiVZ). We […]

What a ride! I asked my (German) students, if they were adventurous enough to leave their beloved StudiVZ system, a German FaceBook clone, to try out supporting a brick-and-mortar seminar “Open Content for Education” with FaceBook. Much to my surprise, they were accepting the challenge with no long discussion. I already had set up a […]

Lately I’ve been at ITK 2007 in Hämeenlinna, Finland (see also my presentation slides) where we had an “Unconference Track”. What is an “Unconference”? Teemu Arina proposed this idea to Jarmo Viteli and the organizing commitee of ITK07. The basic idea is to have an empty track where the conference visitiors can setup their own […]

Hier schon mal für all diejenigen, die nicht (mehr) in die Karrierejagd reinkamen – einigen ist es doch noch gelungen und haben einige hervorragende Analysen geschrieben: Ausführliche und differenziert Ebenso Kurz aber deutlich Ebenso Ein paar positive Aspekte gibt es hier Generalkritik Sehr schön Der Top-Beitrag! …neben dem hier, ebenfalls Top! Deutliches Statement fundiert gemeckert […]