Cornell's Web 2.0 project

[Jay Collier]

Dirk Swart and his colleagues at Cornell have released a paper
outlining the objectives for an easy-to-use Web publishing tool to
support Cornell data repositories. Cornell has given permission to
share, so take a look.

<http://sites.google.com/site/ikeproject/home/planning/documents/
Web2-0Cornellreport2-1-fin.pdf?attredirects=0>

[Jay Collier]

Resend with shorter URL ...

[Heather (OHSU)]

It strikes me as painfully funny that someone wrote a formal paper on
their intention to implement Web 2.0.
The over-intellectualism of academia meets the freewheeling imprudence
of the internet.
- Heather (Williams College '95)

> http://sites.google.com/site/ikeproject/home/planning/documents/Web2-...

[Jay Collier]

Heather-

I think you've pointed out one of the harder issues for IT leadership
in higher education to resolve: how to integrate services that *must*
be centralized with the freewheeling (read: decentralized, democratic,
nimble, responsive) services we all know and love.

For example, at the Campus Technology conference in Boston last July,
the lack of integration between centralized learning management
systems (i.e. Moodle) and personal learning environments (i.e.,
Twitter, WordPress, GoogleDocs) was a strong subtext.

It's not a new issue.
<http://www.jaycollier.net/press/social-web-05.html>

But the debate rages on. Here's one perspective which just came
through yesterday:
<http://www.edtechpost.ca/wordpress/2008/11/08/just-share-already/>

Gary Brown's summary of decentralized, personal learning environments
is interesting.
<http://campustechnology.com/articles/58872_1/>

To demonstrate the integration of content via open standards for
exchange, we've been developing mashups using content from both free,
hosted services, as well as our official public relations department.
<http://batesmedia.net/>

[Kyle Mathews]

Exactly Heather -- this post pretty sums up my feelings about that:
"Planning to share vs. just sharing"
http://www.edtechpost.ca/wordpress/2008/11/08/just-share-already/

Kyle

Research Assistant
eBusiness Center @ BYU
kyle.mathews2000.com/blog

[Jay Collier]

So there's a perfect example. I learned about the EdTechPost blog
entry from Kyle yesterday via Twitter, saved it in my Delicious
bookmarks, and just referenced it in my previous blog post. An organic
flow of learning through decentralized methods ...

-Jay

On Nov 12, 11:59 am, "Kyle Mathews" <mathews.k...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Exactly Heather -- this post pretty sums up my feelings about that:
> "Planning to share vs. just sharing"http://www.edtechpost.ca/wordpress/2008/11/08/just-share-already/
>
> Kyle
>
> Research Assistant
> eBusiness Center @ BYU
> kyle.mathews2000.com/blog
>

[Steve Moitozo]

There is a big difference between sharing of personal knowledge/learning and
sharing institutional knowledge (which in many cases is owned/stewarded by
someone else).

Personal knowledge stored in Web pages, blogs, twitter feeds, social bookmarks,
and other socially minded systems is fairly simple to share because the systems
are chosen from the beginning with sharing in mind. Much of the institutional
knowledge that people want is trapped in systems that aren't designed to
facilitate sharing (administrative systems, intranets, document repositories,
etc.). Add to that the fact that some institutions have complicated policies
and/or layers of bureaucracy, both in an outside of IT, and it's easy to see why
sharing of institutional knowledge can be difficult. Technology is only part of
the issue, though much of the issue seems to come back to the technology as
either the problem or the solution.

-S2
--
Steve Moitozo II
Software Architect and Manager of Internet Software Services
Bates College

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[Jay Collier]

Well said-

Integrating content "that *must* be centralized with the freewheeling

(read: decentralized, democratic, nimble, responsive) services we all

know and love." is the challenge.

-Jay