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Our Ocotillo project’s use of blogs+wikis+boards, coined last summer as “Small Technologies Loosely Joined”. The premise of this was that each of our 4 working groups would maintain a regularly updated blog as its public “face”, use discussion boards for some asynchronous dialogues (and guest experts), and the wikis for brainstorming. The suite of tools (MovableType for blogs, UseMod for wiki, and phpBB for the boards, plus an events database) were all threaded by RSS, meaning 4 groups with 4 channels each of feeds connected to one central “dashboard” view of our efforts. Things have moved along since our launch September 2004, and much overdue is an update of how this is going. Before revealing the grades, a few general observations: * The more familiar tools were more readliy accepted * It takes some compulsive personalities to be at this regularly * In a larger organization, time is needed to [...]

The week of February 28, 2005 through March 4 , our Ocotillo Hybrid Course Structures group is hosting an asynchronous discussion board activity. We are pleased and fortunate to have Bob Kaleta and staff from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Learning Technology Center (LTC) as our guests, and they will be checking the board to ask/answer questions and hopefully provoke some good discussion. The UWM Hybrid web site is one of the must have bookmarks in the field, and the LTC has some of the most valuable experience and wisdom to share. While our primary goal is to engage our own Maricopa faculty and staff, we welcome others interested in hybrid/blended learning to join in. The discussion board is open to anyone to read, but to post there you need to register and create an account. This is part of our goal to not only talk about hybrid formats, but to [...]

Friday was our first meeting for this upcoming academic with the faculty co-chairs of our Ocotillo Action Groups. Part of this was planning, part of it catch up in the research they did over the summer, but the first bit was me trying to get them up to speed on the blog/wiki/discussion board tools we are using (blogged previously here as the “small pieces”). We have pairs of faculty leading activities, projects, research, in Learning Objects, Hybrid Course Structures, ePortfolios, end Emerging Learning Technologies. I’ve had to remind myself numerous times that I am a full time technology person who has been immersed in blogs and such for 2 years, and these are new fish in the pond, and as busy faculty are going to not jump in head first like I do. I’d been sharing information, instructions, etc over the summer, but the traffic had been, ahem, light. In [...]