This is my final blogging post in my Mini-Series “Teaching with Facebook”. The story so far: I was totally hyped after viewing the Facebook F8-Developer keynote, when Mark Zuckerberg demoed FaceBook as the new social media platform (it seems, that Mark has learned to create his own Reality Distortion Field) First I researched what I […]

Now that we have settled on using a humble FaceBook group (Open Content for Open Education), we are doing our course work using the boring “Posted Items” and “Discussion Board”. So far this is rather non-innovative and could be done with any other tool, so we don’t have any advantage by using FaceBook (see the […]

I am just sampling some apps in FaceBook to see, if they could be used to support classes as a CSCW tool or a mini Learning Environment. Here are my observations so far: Notes (a FaceBook app) Description: This is an obvious app because it is a Facebook app. You can post and tag notes, […]

Updated 06/10/07 Open Content meets iTunes: see it for yourself. Browse the catalog in iTunes – there is a new category iTunes U available. A very sleek experience. Now let’s dive into the content. I am mostly interested into educational sciences, educational technology and psychology by the nature of my teaching and research fields. So […]

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 […]

There is a interview with me in SeOPPI magazine from Oili Salminen in Finnish. Here is an english version of the interview: State of the union: eLearning Q1: The use of eLearning is growing much at least in the countries where ICT has become a part of every day life. Why does it happen? KDW: […]

Okay, over the next weeks this blog will become a bit mixed up with German and English stuff, but I try to focus my blogging on this Blog, so stuff like this will take over this former educational blog used for a seminar “Serious Games and Sims for Education”. My work blog will continue to […]