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There are starting to be building blocks for distributed identity, but you still have to put a lot of pieces together to get it to work.

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I was talking with Jude Yew today, a Ph.D. student at Michigan's School of Information. He's interested in facilitating learning via online forums and has been working with me on my learning blogosphere and learning remix projects. The conversation veered around a little, and we came to his idea of using threaded comments to blog posts to promote class interaction.

I won't go into what I think are the merits of that idea, but one of the key points that came up was identity. How do you consistently identify the commenters? Last November, Kaliya Hamlin and I had a conversation on that very topic, and she was convinced that establishing identity was key to community work.

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Bud posted this on May 19, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Corante Symposium on Social Architecture Wrap-up

I'd like to see conferences like this make more use of the available social tools to create pre and post conference opportunities for interaction and learning.

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It's probably best to just quickly state likes and dislikes about the Corante Symposium on Social Architecture:
  • Likes:
    • The cocktail party the night before at the Harvard Faculty Club was great.
    • Lunch was extremely good, a whole table of people who just wanted to talk on topics of interest.
    • The general quality of attendees, in particular the people who were not speakers.
  • Dislikes:
    • After lunch, I thought the explicit exclusion from participation of people sitting in the back section of the auditorium was ridiculous. The fact that the exclusion was repeated by two marquee speakers was just over the top.
    • The level of audience participation was good, but might have been even better.

I really learned some things at lunch and the cocktail party. I really liked the people I talked to and their openness to conversation. Now, let me spend a moment detailing how I might fix some of the things I did not like.

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Bud posted this on November 15, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (1)