What you get when Research and Community come together
It is no secret that there is a huge gap between research and practice in education (and many other areas of social practice). Here's a suggestion of a model that might remedy some of this. Parts of it are based on a draft of a proposal for development project. Why community-based research? There are many…
Read more →Anthologize is that great new tool designed during the One Week, One Tool project. It seems to have taken the world by storm partly thanks to the #oneweek Twitter frenzy and as the #anthologize stream indicates, its off to a stellar start. It may seem too early to look for lessons learned for the future…
Read more →A report just came out from RIN.ac.uk that is relevant to the aims of this website (more details on the project website ). I will tweet out some of the more interesting factoids on @techczech but I think the results can be summarised roughly in three points: Very few researchers use Web 2.0 services. Case…
Read more →One of the thoughts that kept coming up in my head as I was hearing about all these great digital humanities projects at THATCamp London was: this is amazing but it's yet another silo. As someone who has tried (and mostly failed) building several very niche communities with non-tech inclined audiences, I've come to the…
Read more →I have been thinking about this for a while but the below happened as a proposal for THATCamp London . If somebody already had this idea, great. If somebody had a similar idea, lets think about this together. If somebody likes these ideas and wants to do something about it, you're welcome to them! What…
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