Back yesterday morning from Sydney, was hit most significantly and almost immediately by our most _wonderful_ weather here (29-34C, >90% humidity) *hmm*
It was a short, yet enriching trip. Heard many wonderful presentations and thought it would be most appropriate to capture my limited understanding here while memories are still fresh 🙂
There are two main streams of blogging in effect:
(1) Social blogging (with emphasis on political blogging)
(2) Edublogging (with more papers from higher education settings)
I’ll start by looking through the keynotes and invited speakers.
1. Thomas N. Burg on “technologyLog – innovating knowledge sharing”
The work on innovation “technologyLog” is introduced. It is a platform in development that has many features. And the whole thought behind this whole development is the need for innovation in order for a corporation to move forward. With social interaction and democratising innovation as the requirements for innovation, perhaps that’s why a major part of the engine is blog or blog-related.
Slide 6 is interesting, as it captures the adoption cycle of any form of innovation (not restricted to the use of blogging). Particularly the chasm, if we look at ourselves as early adopters/visionaries, we’ll need to bridge the gap(s) before the early major pragmatists will come on-board. This reminds us that when we introduce portfolio using blogs, we are in fact faced with TWO CHASMS and not just one to address.
Some other interesting discussion on this presentation can be found here.
(to be continued …)
– a Singaporean teacher's storeroom 🖖