Open Culture in Milan

28-June-2005

email this
In Milan for the Open Culture conference, and enjoyed Mark Hemphill's talk on his 'Community Plumbing' work at the University of Prince Edward Island. You can find links to my own talk and his from this entry.

In Milan for a conference entitled Open Culture: accessing and sharing Knowledge - scholarly production and education in the digital age.

In truth the heat (it's 38 degrees), stress from things I have to do this week and a pretty horrendous journey yesterday are not improving my concentration.

But I greatly enjoyed a presentation entitled Community Plumbing in Action: BEAT and the Campus Commons by Mark Hemphill from the University of Prince Edward Island, Canada. Its well worth a look at his full paper.

NB - Will try posting my presentation on Flickr later today. Look in the list of linksat the top of this entry for links to versions of my talk.

Technorati Tags: ,

Extended text for this entry:

To quote from his abstract "The Campus Commons is an integrated online academic community founded by students and coordinators at the University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI), and Holland College (HC), in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada. The Campus Commons is significant for several reasons. It is the first implementation of social software to deliver campus-wide blogging initiatives to two post-secondary institutions at once. It offers a free and easy to use personal publishing service to all 8000 students, faculty, and administrators in the extended academic community.

The individual web presences created using the Campus Commons are distinct in their own right, freely customizable, uniquely identifiable and empowering of independent personal expression. At the same time they may be used by members of the community to contribute, in a bottom-up fashion, to any number of distinct spaces which collect and organize topical, group, or course discussion. The service has been used to create and power additional services such as an online student newspaper and a multi-faceted media exchange and distribution service."


Graham Attwell; 28-June-2005 10:38:36; forum (0) help

Comments please

If you are already registered here, please click the "Login" button to send your username/password with the comment. Click the "Anonymous/Join" button to leave a comment without logging in.

Please tell us who you are

E-Mail Address (Required)
We need a valid email address in order for you to post a comment. You will recieve an email containing a special validation link. The comment will not be published until validated
Name
Please leave your name
Join the site (optional)
If you would like to join the site while posting this comment, then choose a username.
Usernames must contain no spaces or special characters.
Title
Lead-in
Body Text ( HTML tags are allowed )
Validation
Please enter the text from the image above
Preview your comment

Linking and trackbacks

When linking to this weblog entry, please use the 'permalink', which is http://www.knownet.com/writing/weblogs/Graham_Attwell/entries/1252903590

Some weblog systems will ask you for a "trackback link" (most systems will find this special 'hook' automatically, in the code for this page).

The trackback link for this entry is http://www.knownet.com/writing/weblogs/Graham_Attwell/entries/1252903590/tb