This week’s workshop focused on social media in relation to CSCW. The presenters explored how issues of accessibility are accommodated in social networks, the role of copyright and open licensing in social media, social media relationship to crisis and world
CSCW 586 Blogs: Gaming Workshop: Putting the pieces together
Sad to have missed the workshops on gaming last week. Based on the optional reading posted to Github and presentations found through Slack I am preparing this short reflection to make up for missing the session. After reviewing the resources
CSCW 586 Blogs: CSCW in Software Engineering Workshops
We were fortunate to have two guest presentations this week from speakers from industry. What I particularly enjoyed from both presentations was the generous sharing of what collaborative tools were being used to support their businesses and how they were
CSCW 586 Blogs: Ontologies and Digital Curation
Ontologies in the Context of Information Science The majority of the readings this week looked at the notion of ontology as a means of organizing and structuring information. This is the first time I have considered ontology in this way
CSCW 586 Blogs: Thinking about research and a potential framework
This week’s readings focused on theoretical frameworks and approaches for doing CSCW research. This was timely reading as I am starting to think about how my own PhD research is going to unfold. Conducting Behavioral Research Reading Easterbrook et al.
CSCW 586 Blogs: Web 2.0 Principles and Educational Enterprise Software
The articulation of web 2.0 represented a significant shift in the development of the web which had a substantial impact on the software development industry. Furthermore, the move towards web 2.0 represented considerable changes to social practices using technology. For this
CSCW 586 Blogs: Understanding computer supported cooperative work and a potential research approach
Computer supported cooperative work defined Computer supported collaborative work (CSCW) is a multidisciplinary field which seeks to understand cooperative work which makes use of information technology. This may include how technology is used in face-to-face settings as well as when
CSCW 586 Blogs: Looking forward to this course
Coming from the Faculty of Education, I am quite happy to be part of this course and to approach this topic from a computer science perspective. My interest is in the application of educational technologies for learning as well as building and fostering communities of
Personal Knowledge Management
by verbeeldingskr8 Developing a conscious strategy for managing information to avoid feeling overloaded (information overload) is an important part of being a knowledge worker. While it can be said that access to web 2.0 tools such as social networking and social media contribute to information overload, I believe that they may actually enable us to […]
Assessing learning in online learning environments
by Chickenball Squish “Nothing that we do to, or for, our students is more important than our assessment of their work and the feedback we give them on it. The results of our assessment influence our students for the rest of their lives and careers – fine if we get it right, but unthinkable if […]