Here is another tool that affords a particular educational conversation pattern. This time the pattern is role-playing simulation I may have to start a new site theme for this stuff. (Found via thee-Learning Centre.)
Pedagogy
The "Pedagogy" category covers the craft and science of teaching, particularly with technology.
Web Collaborator
A couple of posts ago I briefly touched on the idea of developing a pattern language of educational conversations and building tools that support particular patterns. Web Collaborator is a good example of what this might look like. Basically, it’s a single discussion thread tied to a single wiki page. The wiki is for collaborative […]
digital amalgam :Going Wide or Going Deep? Blogs or Discussion
Jim Woodel has a thoughtful blog post in response to the Complese class blog that I noted in my own last post. Here’s a sample: I really, really like the idea of either discussion tools or blog tools that give the instructor some ability to manipulate display based on pedagogy. I’ll have to do some […]
Pattern Languages and Learning Objects
It took me a while to find it on my shelves, but I finally dug out Patterns of Software: Tales from the Software Community, which is a book on applying Christopher Alexander’s ideas to software engineering. For a good chunk of this book, you could take out words like “software,” “code,” and “objects,” and substitute […]
Let's All Live In Jay's House
I’m insanely jealous. It turns out that Jay Cross lives in a house built by the great architect Christopher Alexander. I’m a huge fan of Alexander’s work. Furthermore, I think anyone who does instructional design should read Alexander’s book. No, I don’t mean The Nature of Order, which is the book that Jay is apparently […]