In between working too hard and squeezing in odd days off to use up holiday I seem to have been spending most of my time doing things which either I can’t/won’t blog about or which haven’t stimulated any blogging-related thought! The online Action Research “course”:https://www.scu.edu.au/schools/gcm/ar/areol/areolhome.html I mentioned “earlier”:https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/blog/archives/action_research/000289.php has kicked off – there have been two modules published. Traffic on the discussion group seems so far to be about 10 emails per day, mostly still intros of participants.
“Personal Intellectual Capital”:https://www.internettime.com/blog/archives/001226.html Jay Cross says ‘Ultimately, you’re responsible for the life you lead. It’s up to you to learn what you need to succeed. That makes you responsible for your own knowledge management, learning architecture, instructional design and evaluation.’
When I “blogged”:https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/blog/archives/collaboration/000348.php “Sam Ruby’s”:https://www.intertwingly.net “slides”:https://intertwingly.net/slides/2004/etcon/ from his “presentation”:https://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/et2004/view/e_sess/4613 at “ETCon”:https://conferences.oreillynet.com/etech/ on lessons learned from running the “!Echo wiki”:https://www.intertwingly.net/wiki/pie/FrontPage I noted that I thought he had hit on the basics of several collaboration patterns. I’ve put together the first draft of “LightningConductor”:https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=LightningConductor (named in honour of the metaphor “Sam uses”:https://intertwingly.net/slides/2004/etcon/37.html): *Name* Lightning Conductor *Context* Group of people working collaboratively on a project or problem, especially if they are from diverse backgrounds or interest groups.
“Sam Ruby”:https://www.intertwingly.net has posted the “slides”:https://intertwingly.net/slides/2004/etcon/ from his “presentation”:https://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/et2004/view/e_sess/4613 at “ETCon”:https://conferences.oreillynet.com/etech/ on lessons learned from running the “!Echo wiki”:https://www.intertwingly.net/wiki/pie/FrontPage He notes: bq.:https://intertwingly.net/slides/2004/etcon/20.html If you have a coherently aligned and focused community, a wiki can be a very powerful thing, allowing collaboration to proceed at an astounding pace. If you have a community in imperfect alignment, a wiki will accurately reflect this state. Given a group with a genuine desire to align, a wiki can provide a powerful and positive feedback loop.
“Foiling Cross Site Attacks”:https://www.phparch.com/issuedata/articles/article_66.pdf Useful article [PDF] on defending PHP sites from Cross-Site Request Forgeries and Cross-Site Scripting attacks
“Value-Driven Intranet Design”:https://www.boxesandarrows.com/archives/valuedriven_intranet_design.php Within most corporations, taking ownership of an intranet is an unglamorous, exhausting, and thankless job for a new intranet manager. Many corporate intranets lack thoughtful, focused, and disciplined design and are often extremely large and unwieldy. Fixing these intranets can seem an impossible and futile task.
“Managing the Complexity of Content Management”:https://www.boxesandarrows.com/archives/managing_the_complexity_of_content_management.php Content management systems suck. Or so you would think from the strife heard from analysts and practitioners alike.
Upgraded the “Wiki”:/tiki/ to “TikiWiki 1.8”:https://tikiwiki.org Few hairy moments when I thought I’d lost all the pages, but a little hackery of the SQL dump I’d made beforehand meant I was able to restore the data. If you see something that looks broken please let me know Also I’ve deleted a few superfluous feeds – RSS 2.0 should be enough for now until Atom settles a bit more (IMHO!)
“MTCodeBeautifier”:https://voisen.org/archives/projects/000239.php MTCodeBeautifier is a plugin for Movable Type that provides syntax highlighting and code beautification (indenting, etc.) on input for a variety of programming languages.
I mentioned earlier that I was looking at this free course on Action Research. In one of the background documents Bob Dick describes a number of typical questions that one might ask during an Action Research intervention. Working through these (see QuestionsToGuideReflection) it seems to me that what he is describing is a form of double reflection around action… Reflection 1 occurs as part of the planning process, and serves to make explicit the mental models being used in the planning process.