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Bookmarks I’ve shared on 2013-01-31:

• A Brief Review of the Land Registry Linked Data | Lost Boy

  linked data opendata Land Registry semanticweb

• Tool of the week for journalists: Masterfile, a research database

  tool journalists database journalism

• Using Format Commands to Change Output View

  powershell

• 15 Ways To Become A Better Self-Learner | Edudemic

  paragogy pkm autodidact

• Oracle’s faux IaaS now gets faux on-demand cloud pricing | Cloud Computing – InfoWorld

  IFTTT bitly

• Languages mapped: what do people speak where you live?

  languages guardian datablog datajournalism visualization EAL

• Why Canadian Startup Cinemagram is Better Than Twitter’s Vine

  vine cinemagram socialmedia

• Syncing Google services with Windows Phone

  mobile devices sync windows google

• Google extends Windows Phone support for Exchange ActiveSync until July 31st

  google windows sync devices mobile

• How to Sync Google Services with Windows 8 or Windows RT

  google windows sync devices mobile

• 5 Things I’ve learned from self-publishing – James Calbraith – Quora

  none

• Why open access is better for scholarly societies
  Interesting economic analysis of the professional journals market
  economics publishing academia
• Stop Hyping Big Data and Start Paying Attention to ‘Long Data’ | Wired Opinion | Wired.com

  IFTTT bitly

• Business Development Time Savers: Have a daily LinkedIn routine | How To Make Partner
  Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http://howtomakepartner.com/business-development-time-savers-have-a-daily-linkedin-routine/
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• Using PHP Data Objects | .net magazine

  php data objects

• Free Vector Infographic Kit | MediaLoot

  design visualisation infographics tools

• How To Create Outstanding Modern Infographics

  design visualisation infographics

• The Do’s And Don’ts Of Infographic Design: Revisited

  infographics visualisation design

• The Do’s And Don’ts Of Infographic Design

  infographics visualisation design

• 10 Of The Best Tools For Creating Infographics

  infographics tools visualisation

• 5 ways to always have something meaningful to say on social media
  Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http://howtomakepartner.com/5-ways-to-always-have-something-meaningful-to-say-on-social-media/
  social media
• 10 jQuery Responsive Slider Plugins

  web design jquery slider wordpress

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Bookmarks I’ve shared on 2012-02-07:

• Patterns of Software – Tales from the Software Commmunity

  patterns software Richard P Gabriel

• A City is not a tree

  Christopher Alexander patterns urban planning architecture pdf

• A city is not a tree, part one

  Christopher Alexander patterns urban planning architecture

• The Timeless Way of Building – Wikipedia

  patterns Christopher Alexander

• CMapTools Help

  concept mapping tools howto

• Teaching strategies

  R. Heather Macdonald Barbara J Tewksbury teaching strategies pedagogy resources

• Bohm Dialogue

  Dialogue Bohm

• Teaching strategies

  teaching strategies Barbara J. Tewksbury R. Heather Macdonald pedagogy resources

• The Local-global Flip, Or, "the Lanier Effect"

  lanier Local-global culture technology philosophy

• Mindful Infotention: Dashboards, Radars, Filters

  infotention tools howardrheingold dashboards filters

• What Happened to Downtime? The Extinction of Deep Thinking

  creativity thinking attention downtime productivity

• 9 Common Title Tag Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

  webmaster how to

• Peeragogy Lit Review

  peeragogy paragogy

• Infrastructure – Product Breakdown
  Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/https://theschoolsnetwork.sharepoint.com/sites/is/portfolio/infrastructure/SitePages/Product%20Breakdown.aspx?WikiPageMode=Edit
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Bookmarks I’ve shared on 2012-02-06:

• SecEd | Features | Creating computer science

  computer science

• New free tool to import PSTs into O365 (Exchange Online)

  exchange online office365

• Connect your File Server to SharePoint with File Explorer

  sharepoint

• Untitled
  @business901: How to Design like an Architect http://t.co/Zb2MBZwf – gr8 vid for intro to any type of design #designthinking #servicedesign http://twitter.com/business901/status/166545687721426944
  via:ifttt @twitter @favorites @read @retag
• Infrastructure – Risk management plan

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• Social Learning: Key resources from January | Learning in the Social Workplace

  social learning learning_social peeragogy paragogy

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Bookmarks I’ve shared on 2012-02-01:

• OpenLearn

  openuniversity openlearning learning peeragogy paragogy

• Cohere QuickStart Guide

  knowledge mapping knowledgemanagement augmentation learning tools exchange conceptmapping mindmapping cohere openuniversity compendium

• Compendium Exchange

  compendium exchange tools learning conceptmapping mindmapping knowledgemanagement augmentation visualisation

• Troubleshooting Lync Online Sign-in Errors

  troubleshooting errors office365 Lync microsoft

• The Big Agile Toolkit – Deliver agile projects to quality to time and to budget
  "The Big Agile Toolkit: no Dogma, no Bias, no Accreditation, no Exams
  agile project_management
• ‘Your kids aren’t smart, posh, upper-class, whatever’: a very British snobbery | Sarah Ditum | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

  Gove education politics vocational Guardian JohnHumphreys

• Mr Gove’s hidden devil | Matthew Taylor’s blog

  matthewTaylor RSA Gove education politics vocational

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A sticky idea…

Howard Rheingold has thrown up a new idea – Peeragogy – which has found a sticky resting place in my brain.

In a blog post written as a pre-cursor to his 2011 Regents’ Lecture at the University of California, Berkeley he reflects on his experience to date with collaborative learning, and sets out the stall for his next project – to collaboratively create a guide to collaborative peer-to-peer learning:

I’m calling it “peeragogy.” While “paragogy” is more etymologically correct, “peeragogy” is self-explanatory. In my lecture, I’ll explain the evolution of my own pedagogy and reveal some of what I’ve discovered in the world of online self-organized learning. Then I will invite volunteers to join me in a two week hybrid of face-to-face seminars and online discussion. Can we self-organize our research, discover, summarize, and prioritize what is known through theory and practice, then propose, argue, and share a tentative resource guide for peeragogical groups? In theory, those who use our guide to pursue their own explorations can edit the guide to reflect new learning.

This idea has definitely struck a chord with me – and slightly tongue in cheek I tweeted:

Is it me, or is #peeragogy about doing learning in the way a lot of “real” work is done?

More going on

As is so often the way, I then read further to discover that someone else had not only spotted the connection but grounded it with references. Rheingold acknowledges the work of Joe Corneli and Charles Danoff, who have termed this area of study Paragogy, have co-authored a paper on it, and are writing a book. In their paper Corneli and Danoff make an explicit link between Paragogy and Peer Production.

Relating this to technology production

When I tweeted, what I had in mind were the complex loops of idea exchange implicit in any kind of technical product development (either for external customers or internal company users):

Most, if not all, of these conversations imply some sort of mutual learning:

• what sorts of things might surprise, delight or downright disappoint the customer/user
• what sort of product and business model might work
• what are the technical options
• what does the industry provide
• how can we adapt the current technology to meet the needs
• what would we like the industry to develop next
• and so on…..

If the future of work is learning, or more bluntly work is learning- so what, how can we exploit the developments in paragogical theory and practice to make such work work better?

My questions

it’s turtles all the way down, but a few starter questions that spring to mind are:

• does treating these processes as learning exercises lead to better performance? (and how might we measure that?)
• what support do teams need to surface learning goals around their work?
• what team and organisation culture will best support rapid learning?
• how beneficial is it to make the learning explicit?

Right now this is mostly a “lightbulb” – I need to do more thinking and have some dialogue to explore further.

if any of this strikes a chord with you, please comment.

Bookmarks I’ve shared on 2012-01-29:

• Paragogy.net

  peeragogy learning paragogy collaboration co-creation Charles Jeffrey Danoff Joe Arided

• Toward Peeragogy | DMLcentral

  learning peeragogy collaboration peer teaching co-creation

• Paragogy: Synergizing individual and organizational learning

  paragogy peeragogy collaboration co-creation Joseph Corneli Charles Je

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