{"id":1862,"date":"2011-11-15T10:17:24","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T17:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/?p=1862"},"modified":"2014-09-12T11:48:50","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T17:48:50","slug":"no-more-swikis-end-of-the-constructionist-web-at-georgia-tech-computing-education-blog-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2011\/11\/15\/no-more-swikis-end-of-the-constructionist-web-at-georgia-tech-computing-education-blog-2\/","title":{"rendered":"No More Swikis: End of the Constructionist Web at Georgia Tech \u00ab Computing Education Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><a href=\"http:\/\/computinged.wordpress.com\/2011\/11\/15\/no-more-swikis-end-of-the-constructionist-web-at-georgia-tech\/\">No More Swikis: End of the Constructionist Web at Georgia Tech \u00ab Computing Education Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m seeing similar edicts coming from other universities too. I moved all of my university-related stuff to my own private domain several years before I actually left the university because I found it increasingly difficult to do collaborative and cooperative work with and for my students using the university web-spaces. I even set up my own Moodle site on my domain so I could deal with grades and content that could not be publicly posted.<\/p>\n<p>If the formal\u00a0institutions\u00a0do not realize that they need to become more open rather than more protectionist, they will become the agents of their own downfall.<\/p>\n<div class='wp_likes' id='wp_likes_post-1862'><a class='like' href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(1862);\" title='' ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-likes\/images\/like.png\" alt='' border='0'\/><\/a><span class='text'>Be the first to like.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class='like' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(1862);\">Like<\/a><\/div>\n<div class='unlike' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.unlike(1862);\">Unlike<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>No More Swikis: End of the Constructionist Web at Georgia Tech \u00ab Computing Education Blog. I&#8217;m seeing similar edicts coming from other universities too. I moved all of my university-related stuff to my own private domain several years before I &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2011\/11\/15\/no-more-swikis-end-of-the-constructionist-web-at-georgia-tech-computing-education-blog-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,14,24],"tags":[388,41],"class_list":["post-1862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational-technology","category-general","category-teaching-learning","tag-academia","tag-education"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Hsb6-u2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4883,"url":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2015\/06\/29\/7-ways-to-use-games-in-the-classroom\/","url_meta":{"origin":1862,"position":0},"title":"7 Ways to Use Games in the Classroom","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"June 29, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"There are many ways to use games in the classroom.\u00a0Games can be used as: Content -\u00a0The content of the game directly addresses some curricular need. 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That, and the fact that programming is largely about lists, organizing, and puzzles - all things that women often find appealing. Of course, I buy into the argument here about\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Computers&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Computers","link":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/category\/computers-2\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5441,"url":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2015\/08\/27\/tech-or-no-tech-in-the-classroom-the-debate-continues\/","url_meta":{"origin":1862,"position":2},"title":"Tech or No Tech in the Classroom? The debate Continues.","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"August 27, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Came across this:\u00a0Why I\u2019m Asking You Not to Use Laptops \u2013 Lingua Franca - Blogs - The Chronicle of Higher Education. I suspect it is because we are starting a new school year that this topic is popping up a lot. 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In this case it doesn't even have the excuse of being ancient history. \u00a0 Come to think of it, in some ways we are more at risk of this happening than before the Internet. 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