The LTD Project Blog » networks http://ltdproject.edublogs.org a Language Teacher Development Project Blog extraordinaire Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:37:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Tagging discussions: dormant and Diigo! http://ltdproject.edublogs.org/2008/06/26/tagging-discussions-dormant-and-diigo/ http://ltdproject.edublogs.org/2008/06/26/tagging-discussions-dormant-and-diigo/#comments Thu, 26 Jun 2008 01:51:27 +0000 Paul Beaufait http://ltdproject.edublogs.org/?p=118 It is such a pleasure to have hooked up with the Learning with Computers (LwC) group – all the more so now that the group had undertaken to explore Diigo, and is putting that free social bookmarking engine through its paces.

Messages flowing into my mailbox on a daily basis are hard to ignore, and fill a professional development gap that I’d hoped might, after I joined the EdubloggerWorld wiki and started monitoring the Tagging Standards page (along with all others on the latter site).

Actually, I cannot recall getting any notifications at all from the latter. That is why I’m so happy to be involved with the LwC crowd in a collective exploration of tagging practices.

]]> http://ltdproject.edublogs.org/2008/06/26/tagging-discussions-dormant-and-diigo/feed/ 0 Online Communities and Networks: Demonstrable Differences? http://ltdproject.edublogs.org/2008/03/19/online-communities-and-networks-demonstrable-differences/ http://ltdproject.edublogs.org/2008/03/19/online-communities-and-networks-demonstrable-differences/#comments Tue, 18 Mar 2008 23:59:59 +0000 Paul Beaufait http://ltdproject.edublogs.org/2008/02/27/online-communities-and-networks-demonstrable-differences/ In Ongoing VCWG [Virtual Community Working Group] discussion, Carole McCulloch suggests a demonstrable difference between online communities and networks.

A community, on one hand, she suggests is “an online group where one’s absence will be noted (you will be missed).” In contrast, she suggests, a network is “an online group where one’s absence does not matter (the group will survive)” (Learning Times, Virtual Community Working Group, 2005.04.06).

Reading that led to wondering whether the WinK network is beginning to approximate a community. [Somehow, this quick post got clocked in on January 1, 1970. Since I don't recall when I posted it, I'm changing the timestamp to today (March 19, 2008).]

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