WinK visualization in progress
Posted by: Paul Beaufait in B4B/B4E/LwC, CommunityGroup, blogospheres, blogs & wikis, graphics, tags: edublogpracticeThanks to prodding from Carla in comments on the previous post (EduBlogs Insights: More True than Ever), I’ve postponed lunch to “put something up here for an appetizer” (ltdproject, February 20th, 2008 at 11:50 am [JST]).
The mind-map represented in the image below is a visualization in progress to reflect upon tools and venues supporting a growing community of webloggers called WinK, an acronym for Weblogging in Kumamoto, the brain-child of two colleagues with whom I group blog privately in Vox.
The Pageflakes nodes (among RSS aggregators in the image, below), inaccurate and incomplete as they may be, represent recent developments inspired by impeccable models in the Blogging for Educators workshop (wiki & Pageflakes).
For the continuing inspiration that the TESOL Electronic Village Online workshop coordinators, facilitators, and other participants provide, I’d like to take this opportunity to offer my sincere thanks: Thank you all!
This mind-map (image only) captures many if not most of the major constituent elements of WinK at this point in time (between academic years 2007-08, and 2008-09). Please note that it is neither complete in details or interconnections, nor completely accurate in some of the details it represents.
(PB [aka ltdproject], description of WinK image posted on a Vox blog,
for discussion in the private WinK Core Group, 2008.02.20).
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February 21st, 2008 at 10:08 am
On a new page, WinK Overview (listed in the header), there is now an evolving outline, derived from the FreeMind mind-map from which the already obsolete image in this post originated. I’ll keep updates on the new page.
April 8th, 2008 at 10:55 am
Dear Paul,
How did I miss this appetizer?! What an effective plan incorporating many great tools to promote learning. I loved the name WinK. By the way, I’m just starting with Diigo and feel it’s a great possibility for connections. It’s much more than just social bookmarking. Maybe you could try it with the team of educators and keep delicious for students as it is much simpler to manage. I’ve just joined this group: http://groups.diigo.com/groups/educators.
Please, keep me posted on how things go. Thanks for your kind words to the Blogging Team. To hear that means that it was worthwhile the long period we spent preparing for the session!
April 25th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
Dear Carla,
It is a pleasure to hear from you again. I wish that the name WinK were of my own coining. It is a shingle I share with two, going on I’m not sure how many other local educators.
As you are probably aware, the page on which I intended to continue with the feast started this spring during B4E has been quite static since I served up a revised overview of WinK there in February. I’m in small kitchen (only three keyboards within reach), and have pushed the LTD Project Blog to the back of the stove to get this year’s blended courses (blogs, wikis, and even a ning) served up promptly for new classes that started a couple of weeks ago.
Within not to[o] many more weeks, I hope to have gotten past the antipasta, and into the prima piatto. However, you shouldn’t hold your breath!
April 25th, 2008 at 10:00 pm
Dear Paul,
Seems delicious! I’m waiting for the primo piatto, then! Let me know how things are going in your blended course. Is it a writing course? How often do you meet? How are students reacting to it? Is Ning working for you?
I’ve been teaching online a group of Brazilian students, and it’s been very rewarding so far.
Keep me posted. Would love to know what you’re up to.