Final Posting

This will serve as my final blog posting for the class. My participation this week was rather limited due to a lack of connectivity, but I did read all my classmates comments on the discussion boards, responded to 10 produsage comments, posted three blogs, and a partridge in a pear tree. My final thoughts about the course can be summed up in one word, meta-reflection. I plan to revisit the readings, blog postings, and discussion board posts over the next two weeks in an effort to finalize my position on the various viewpoints associated with web 2.0 technologies.

Thank you all for a wonderful experience.

Kenny

Week 6 Prompt

Reflect on what you have learned in the class and how you will use it professionally as both a lifelong learner and an instructional systems professional (or whatever field you’re in).

To early to reflect, seriously, I mean this summer has been so action-packed, compact, exasperating, and overwhelming that I will need at least two weeks to decompress. I will take that time to reflect on the past 12 months in which I: moved my wife, three kids, and dog from N.C. to F.L., completed 36 credit hours, and moved the same wife, three kids, and dog from F.L. to N.J.

I am blogging from a Starbucks, while the movers are still unpacking, because I do not have internet access yet. Yes, I am that guy sitting in the corner drinking a Venti no fat latte and typing on a laptop as everyone who passes by thinks, "That guy must think he is so cool."

I was only offline for a period of 4 days and it feels like I missed a month's worth of conversations on the discussion boards, blogs, and comments. So, I can only reflect that I learned more about emerging and existing tools to place in my ID toolbox for future work and hope that I can carry the torch (re: exhale).

Week 5 Participation

I focused this week on the Produsage assignment and developed what I think will be a useful tool for students who take this course in the future. I was a little confused because I thought there was going to be some peer interaction with our Produsage tools in order to get feedback, but I think it is to late. This week I completed:

• All assigned readings
• Developed Produsage tool
  
• 5 blog entries
• Commented on 6 classmates blogs
• Numerous discussion board posts
  
• Reviewed 2 classmates Produsage tools
  

Blogging Through Transition

The semester is not yet over, but my time in Tallahassee is rapidly winding down. I am blogging while the movers are packing all my stuff and loading it on the truck. I will have to continue the course from hotel to hotel as I make my way to N.J. This should be an interesting two weeks.

Week 5 Prompt

How do issues such as authorship, copyright and open access impact your desire, ability and willingness to engage in produsage, both personally and professionally?

Now that I understand the specifics of authorship and copyright (i.e., that a copyright exists the second original works of authorship are fixed in a tangible medium of expression) I see how important it is to license work under a creative commons license if I want to allow others to reuse, remix, or repurpose any content. Previous to this degree, I was aware of GNU licensing through the open software initiative, but never considered contributing to the public domain. In the future, I plan to license all content, that is feasible, under a CC license in order to contribute to the greater good.

Solicitation for ideas

This is a call out for some additional content ideas related to my produsage project. I want to aggregate useful data for students who enroll in this class in the future. The idea centers around providing a one-stop location where the core information sources and products developed throughout the semester will automatically update to provide real-time information. I have the prototype up and running and wanted to get input on the sources and types of information you found yourself regularly referencing during the class. You can view the site by clicking on the prototype link to add comments, or just add a comment to this post.

Thanks!

Week 4 Participation

This week I dedicated a large portion of my time to researching, writing, and editing the Web 2.0 Community Observation paper, as well as continuing to research data aggregation tools for the Produsage assignment. I was late to the discussion board and felt like I was merely commenting on others original thoughts. I prefer to complete my readings and postings early in the week because I feel more engaged in the discussion. So, with that being said, I am off to read next weeks assignments and fall asleep to thoughts of Produsage....