During our visit to the GEES Learning and Teaching conference in Plymouth last week, we were introduced to some interesting new people and ideas. We discovered that there’s a fairly similar project to OTIH in Kingston – the MoRSE project uses wifi routers and servers in the field to share GIS data and SMS messages. Dr. Simon Jones set us off on a photomarathon to demonstrate how this can be used as an engaging teaching method in fieldwork. Dr. Derek France showed his work simulating disaster response with students using Yammer. There’s more on some of these topics at Jason Truscott’s blog.
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interesting the comments on gameplaying and communities of practice that came out in several of the presentations – although I’m a bit doubtful about the context of social that are used within several of these presentations. Namely that the concept in projects such as GEES has a one to many model assuming that online collaboration has social built in. ERA and OTIH have followed a similar theme on this line with social groupings incorporating both face-to-face and online social interaction. It is unclear in many of the presentations whether these systems are synchronous or asynchronous and if the groups in the field are co-located as they are in the ERA model or more like an iSPOT one to many synchronous collaboration. Both have their advantages, but the concept of ‘LIVE’ and the different concepts of ‘social’ need to be understood if we are to support effective collaborative learning