Socratic Monologue
As Adam Curry would say … Boi-oi-oing!!.
Time for me to hop on the podcast bandwagon. Here’s podcast #1.
Show notes
Opening Music – Things to do When You’re Alone by 46 Ounces
- Alec Couros blogging presentation. Alec blogs at http://www.educationaltechnology.ca/couros
- Fostering Critical Thinking in an Online Environment
- Nine Myths About Design – from Katy Campbell’s workshop session (recorded and blogged by Rick Schwier)
Update – I just installed a WordPress enclosure mod, so hopefully I now have an RSS feed that includes the enclosure for the podcast.
Closing Music – 1981 by 46 Ounces
Addendum - I just listened to the podcast, and the recording software seems to have skipped in a couple of places, and I need some practice fading clips in and out. Kinda reminds me of early punk music – not very polished, but you have to admire the enthusiasm and energy.
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It’s great to know that I may have been one of the first listeners of your inaugural podcast Rob. Thanks for the interesting stuff … and it’s great you are getting this going … it’s making me think about how I want to start doing this, and demonstrate it to me in my undergraduate classes. Great stuff!
Hey Rob, nice work out of the gate! I wish I had known about the conference in Saskatoon — I’m always looking for an excuse to get back, (though preferably not in November). It sounds like it was worth a bit of cold, though. You did a fine job of capturing your experience, hope you keep doing the audio thing.
And keep those 46 Ounces grooves coming!
Ha – glad you liked the 46 ounces tunes, Brian. And thanks for the positive comments on the inaugural voyage – I should offer you the same congrats on your WikiRadio project. I think you may have invented a genre! I (and a lot of other people) will be watching for your next masterpiece.
[...] Donna and Terry discuss the use of blogs as tools to create and sustain a community of inquiry. The community of inquiry model was developed by Terry Anderson, Randy Garrison and Walter Archer. It describes three elements of educational transaction – cognitive presence, social presence and teaching presence – and their use in designing online education. Their original research is available online at the Communities of Inquiry (CoI) website, and is well worth the read. At the time of the original research, they were looking mainly at threaded discussion, but these elements also work extremely well if one looks at blogs as the communication tool. This line of thought actually occurred to me two years ago when I was at a presentation by Walter Archer entitled Fostering Critical Thinking in an Online Environment at the Instructional Design conference in Saskatoon, in which he discussed the community of inquiry model. Dirk Morrison had also used the CoI model earlier in the day. One of my first thoughts when looking at the CoI model was that blogs could be used to create cognitive, social and teaching presence, not in any sort of centralized location, but in a much more diffuse and distributed fashion. Here are my notes from the presentation – Fostering Critical Thinking in an Online Environment. (I also blogged some notes about Alec Couros’ presentation on education blogging, and Alec has his educational blogging presentation slides online) My first podcast also describes the conference – StigmergicWeb podcast #1. (link is to blog entry) [...]