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Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Re: My tenuous use of technology
I completed my first blog. It should be open for everyone to view. Here's the url:
Monday, June 29, 2009
The "Crowd-Sourcing" Challenge
Fellow Researchers,
Good discussion today on our various goals and our challenges in finding the technology that will work best for us.
FIRST WE HAVE TO ASK THE RIGHT QUESTIONS -- right?!
The question I saw us asking today is, how do we create a good on line discussion of our project(s) -- one that allows for easy access and a free-flowing conversation, while allowing us also to accumulate and organize insights and information on set topics.
FIRST ANSWER: We link to a Google Document, as indeed we did.
NEXT CHALLENGE: The document provides a good overview, and we can continue to tweak it as needed. But if we want to go into detail we either need to create a very large cumbersome document or create a series of Google Docs, each one requiring that we create it and create links to it.
NEXT AVENUE OF INQUIRY: While continuing this blog and that original Google Document, let's explore OTHER WAYS of gathering and organizing information. Some possibilities:
-- I suggest that we check out these sites to see whether they would work for us:
Good discussion today on our various goals and our challenges in finding the technology that will work best for us.
FIRST WE HAVE TO ASK THE RIGHT QUESTIONS -- right?!
The question I saw us asking today is, how do we create a good on line discussion of our project(s) -- one that allows for easy access and a free-flowing conversation, while allowing us also to accumulate and organize insights and information on set topics.
FIRST ANSWER: We link to a Google Document, as indeed we did.
NEXT CHALLENGE: The document provides a good overview, and we can continue to tweak it as needed. But if we want to go into detail we either need to create a very large cumbersome document or create a series of Google Docs, each one requiring that we create it and create links to it.
NEXT AVENUE OF INQUIRY: While continuing this blog and that original Google Document, let's explore OTHER WAYS of gathering and organizing information. Some possibilities:
-- I suggest that we check out these sites to see whether they would work for us:
* Google Sites
* Evernote
* Wikispaces
BTW HOW IS THIS BLOG WORKING -- ADD A COMMENT IF YOU'VE READ THIS!
* Evernote
* Wikispaces
* Omeka
* Zoho
BTW HOW IS THIS BLOG WORKING -- ADD A COMMENT IF YOU'VE READ THIS!
Elements of our "Obelisk"
We are thinking of our research this summer in terms of three levels:
Level 1 ("Flight Control") = priorities, task-sequence
Level 2 = (mastering relevant technologies) blogging, film-making and editing, web design, crowd-sourcing, Text to Speech, Timeline creation
Level 3 = (creating end products) Pacific Northwest Forum on Line, History 300 (Frontier Washington), Bill's Books, Running Start History 110, Frontier Justice, History Department Web Site, Phil's and Candice's Resumes, Jackson Hole Center for Global Affairs
We will update the Obelisk on a Google Document called Flight Control.
Regarding Technology
We have discovered that Safari works better than Mozilla Firefox in viewing and editing blogs on this site.
First Post
As we design this blog, we hope to pool our understanding of key technologies which will allow us to rapidly accomplish our goals.
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