Home About Full Circle Contact Resources Wiki Full Circus Full Circle Associates connections for a changing world, online and offline… Aug 27 2008 From courses to community: Josien Kapma and Nancy White Published by Nancy White at 6:42 am under communities of practice , learning This is an article that Josien Kapma

What is Moodle? According to their website: "Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a free, Open Source software package designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators create effective online learning communities. use it at workshops and the application is ideal to shape the content of the course. It is a very easy to use You can download and use it on any computer you have handy (including webhosts), yet it can scale from a single-teacher site to a 50,000-student University." The next interview took place at June 27, 2006 with Camillo Villa from HIVOS. Moodle “At HIVOS we use D-groups very intensively, as well as Skype.

Wageningen International uses an e-learning platform, which is defined and maintained using a Content Management System (CMS) What are the main options of the CMS? Courses websites can be easily defined, developed and maintained. Groups of course participants can be given special rights in the system. The next interview took place at July 6, 2006 with Mirjam Schaap from Wageningen International. Meeting place “I work in the Capacity Development and Institutional Change Programme . What is it that you use? The system contains multiple websites, a library and

Little did I know that this first toe-dip would literally change the course of my professional, and in many ways, my personal life. Just today I received an email from one of the people who took our workshop and he wrote “I still remember your course as one of the absolute best courses in my life. Thanks to social media we have everything from formal courses to networks on Twitter to facilitate “here and now” learning This afternoon I’m spending a half hour on a Skype video conversation to share a bit of how I use social media. I

The idea is that all these applications will be - and actually already are - used for communication among colleagues within the Alliance and of course also with partners in the South. Most of the tools also work with low-bandwidth conditions, but of course this is less applicable for lets say video sharing. By Maarten Boers During the October 12 meeting of the e-collaboration group I presented the communication system that is being developed by and for the ICCO-Alliance with the very appreciated help from Euforic ( [link] ). We cal this system the “ComPart-flowers”,

have to admit that I don't do a lot with maps myself so far, I tried a google map for Ghana, but failed because the bandwidth did not allow us to map everyone. Of course with interactive maps the data depend on the number of participants willing to add their information to the maps. Of course you need to add locations to your photos on flickr to be able to create such a map. An example of a map used for activism I got a question from someone about maps. I

over usage of resources such as bandwidth,  inappropriate Saw this by  Copywrite  - reminded me that I wanted to post this part of a Public Relations course I run. For Public Relations who are concerned about Crisis Communication in Social Networks and are responsible for Social Media Training across the organisation. Facebook banned in the workplace?

With respect to concept #2, bandwidth is bandwidth and storage is storage. There are tons of “content” online that could take much less space and bandwidth. separate problem which would remain even if bandwidth were really This is NOT an attack to net neutrality, of course. A contribution from Marco Fioretti , reacting to an earlier post : “I would like to share some thoughts and doubts I’ve had for years about the “fast, universal Net access for everybody” dogma. I

This podcast comes from an overview of social media monetization revenues presentations and courses that I’ve been running for the last few years. Unlimited bandwidth We look at Freemium revenue in social networks and online communities including asking that: if freemium is the business model of giving it all (or most) of the services away for free , how can you then charge for it? And what is free stuff anyway – marketing?

The trainers that participated in the course are all ICT-trainers. It is also possible that people wanted first to wait and see what others had put on their personal page, or that they weren’t happy as yet with their own page.” Bandwidth and privacy What was the reaction of participants to using a wiki? “The We had some problems with bandwidth, especially when logging onto the wiki. The tool: wiki A wiki is a website where users can easily add, delete or change the contents. For both editing and reading the website there is the option of making the wiki public or available