@jennifermjones My dream to re-route literacies and local communities back into communities through local media, newspapers, schools. Just provide a bit of free space and domains to subscribers. Storage cheap. Retake classifieds
@DonaldClark bad bits of behaviourism bring in billions in ad bids biting on bad behavior bought in fits of gigabits that sip at brain's basic nature #smallpoems
#smallpoems My knuckles scraped, dirt congeals with blood I stack the fallen rock and slip into time scales a rock turned by glacier cleared by Slash and Burn Indigenous farmers stacked neatly in abandon walls by a Conquering culture restacked by Suburban decsendants now mixing my blood into this soil as moss falls to my time Rocks when you listen closely si
Thinking about some of tools we use in #IndieWeb community like indiewebifyme https://indiewebify.me/ and how stuff like webmentions could be used as tool to drive engagement by also encouraging participants to display buttons
Why I prefer a syndication model for #OER resources where I federate or syndicate artifacts to the Commons from a place where I live through Open Standards, Oped Protocols, and APIs, #Apereo20 the hubs always fall
Iterating open source projects to me is to give users space to do things. Then repeat what works, don't do what doesn't. Prefer less governance and showing by doing. #Apereo20
The learning benefits of gamification, like most token economies, diminish quickly but it helps with onboarding, outreach, and initial success for retention. Has more to do with social presence rather than cognitive presence.
Our professional organizations are addicted to conference and publication revenue, we recreate the false narrative of scarcity of knowledge and rarity of key gatekeepers. Let's not do that. #Apereo20
As writer, been fooling around with using a wiki more my long form writing: http://longthoughts.jgregorymcverry.com/doku.php and added a blog: http://longthoughts.jgregorymcverry.com/doku.php?id=blog it's janky and you have to touch some plumbing but like different place for long form
Newsletters with tiers of coupon sales... But residents have their own space they control what gets shared, archived.. All doable. Social media under 20 years old. Just a blip in our history. We can recenter in our communities
@jennifermjones If you want turnkey just work, touch no code service check out @microdotblog Has the best #IndieWeb building blocks built in Pine at pine.blog is also a great tool. I love @withknown takes some set up though
I realized I am not available for @IndieWebCamp West this year so I will not be facilitating session, happy to do a pop up session on webmentions, badges, and gamification some time.
And in terms of teaching writing I want to play with parsers and gamification a bit, If I built a writing community for kids avatar swag totes be earned by grinding in my skill zone.
You can just remove the whole counting and competition layer and just encourage engagement later on in a classroom or in participant lifecycle. Check out what #ds106 does with with daily creates