http://chris.ikit.org/blog Knowledge Building Assessment and Technology Support Tue, 16 Jan 2007 16:40:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I just returned from a great lecture by Tad Homer-Dixon ("The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity and the Renewal of Civilization" -- go [buy the book](http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/books/item/books-978067697722/0676977227/The+Upside+of+Down+Catastrophe+Creativity+and+the+Renewal+of?ref=Books%3a+Search+Top+Sellers)). Much of the talk was drawn from the book, but he did respond to some questions with some new material. Of note: ... http://chris.ikit.org/blog/2007/01/16/tad-homer-dixon-on-blogging/ A couple of weeks ago I embarked on an experiment with a variety of Google's apps. It's been an interesting couple of weeks. For now, I'm dropping Google Mail and Google Calendar. I need access to all my stuff, in annotated form, from anywhere I have my ... http://chris.ikit.org/blog/2007/01/08/un-googlizing-myself-in-part/ I wonder if Marlene ever used the term "ecosystem" when referring to knowledge building. It occurs to me that "ecosystem" is in fact the wrong term. Instead, it's really a cybernetic system (i.e. one that is governed by feedback). I cannot stop thinking about the [autopoeitic](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autopoiesis) nature ... http://chris.ikit.org/blog/2006/12/27/cybernetics-and-knowledge-building-2006-12-27/ I'm trying an experiment: living with Google Mail, Google Calendar, and Google other stuff for a couple of weeks. I was inspired by Tim Bray's recent bog entry on [email clients](http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2006/12/15/Email). Of course while setting things up with GMail, I also got Google Calendar going (and of ... http://chris.ikit.org/blog/2006/12/21/googlizing-myself/ I spent some time last night getting things ready for being away from my office for a couple of weeks. In addition to ensuring that I had all the necessary reading material (well, at least the offline-only stuff), I wanted to ensure that I the necessary software at hand. I ... http://chris.ikit.org/blog/2006/12/21/helpful-software/ Welcome to my blog. This is part of a design experiment that I'm conducting to try to understand the relationship between blogging and knowledge building. The focus of this blog will tend to be the use of technology for the assessment and analysis of knowledge building. http://chris.ikit.org/blog/2006/10/30/hello-world/