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A greater self-awareness is not only important for personal growth, but also necessary for happiness and world peace.   Much of the suffering we inflict upon ourselves and others stems from own ignorance.  Many of us unknowingly feed destructive mental habits and hold views that run counter to what what we’d like to accomplish, potentially causing restlessness, unsatisfaction, and frustration.  Personally, I have never been able [...]

Our goals for Week 2:

Discuss the readings from Week 1. 

Share and discuss as a group the plans for each individual learner’s website.  Prepare for writing a formal learning plan.

Continue to familiarize ourselves the features of Manila.  This will involve, learning how to create and link to Manila news items and stories, upload and link to pictures, edit news items [...]

Friends World student, John Grillo, is on a quest to cultivate a much richer, more diverse and integrated online personal learning community.   In an effort to better understand online communities and to increase the quality of participation in his weblog, @ Home and Abroad, he has decided to employ a simple action research methodology.  He just started another weblog and is using Manila’s ‘News [...]

I find it fascinating to re-examine what I have written in the past.  In doing so, I realize how much has changed within me in such a short period of time.  Last year, I did a case study (PDF) on the first group of bloggers here at the East Asia Center (EAC).  I adapted Clark Moustakas’ phenomenological research method in an [...]

Our first face-to-face (f2f) meeting was pretty straightforward.  Five students are taking the course.  We started off by talking about what the terms ‘weblog’ and ‘interactive webpublishing’ mean.  We then discussed the course content and possible directions we might elect to take.  This includes learning about:
1. What weblogs are and what ‘interactive webpublishing’ means.
2. How to use [...]

Our goals for Week 1:

Gaining a better understanding of what weblogs are and what the term ‘interactive webpublishing’ means

Becoming familiar with the main features of our software, Manila, and exploring ways these features can intitially be used

Thinking about how an interactive website can be used to support one’s learning this semester

Discussing the course requirements

Our reading assignments Week 1:

Blood R (2000) [...]

Acting upon a helpful suggestion from Sebastian, I decided that it would be a good idea to expose our process in the course on Interactive Webpublishing as much as possible for the benefit of other educators.  That way, our our methods, struggles, successes, and failures could be examined and reflected upon by anyone else who [...]

Week 1 - Introduction Part I

Our goals for Week 1:

Gaining a better understanding of what weblogs are and what the term ‘interactive webpublishing’ means

Becoming familiar with the main features of our
software, Manila, and exploring ways these features can
intitially be used
Thinking about how an interactive website can be used to support one’s learning this semester

Discussing the course requirements

Our reading [...]

For six years, anti-biotech activists managed to prevent the introduction of G.M. crops in India. This was largely the work of Vandana Shiva, the Oxford-educated daughter of a wealthy Indian family, who has campaigned relentlessly to “protect” poor farmers from the ravages of multinational seed companies. In 2002, she was given the Hero of the [...]

Oliver Wrede posts a helpful diagram for thinking about what we’re trying to accomplish through practice in our interactive webpublishing course.  This type of self-organized learning is even more important for students at an institution like Friends World Program, where individuals are geographically dispersed and often lack easy access to the same depth of academic resources that [...]

Wired should have invited Austin to write an article for their feature on Living Machines.  It could have been entitled, Deconstructing the Human: building robots sheds light on the meaning of life.  Read more…
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Several changes have taken place for the course I’ll be tutoring this semester, now entitled Interactive Webpublishing.  I’ve somewhat de-emphasized the action research/learning approach and am attempting to encourage learners to cultivate their own personal learning community by incorporating the use of aggregators and RSS feeds, and implementing various search and networking strategies to locate, track, and [...]