Here you will find all the posts i made so far about the seminar in the older blog:
goodbye [hau]
April 15th, 2008
As we figured out the difficulties to use a common blog with several people, i am going to leave this one and create my own, new.
One of the main problems might occure when two people are at the same time registrated as admin, this is possible but might cause inconsistency.
If two people edit one post or a page and both save their changes, only one will be saved and published…
goodbye and see you on my new blog (i will write a comment with the new adress)
what is e-learning about [hau]
April 11th, 2008
well, after setting up the new blog from www.slyhau.edublogs.org to www.slyhauseb.edublogs.org and importing the old posts and comments, the layout is still not done.
In this post i want to write some descriptions and personal views on e-learning.
As i guess other participants used allready the description of wikipedia, i want to start with the university hamburg. At the start page there is e-learning as one category mentioned, see the link:
http://www.uni-hamburg.de/eLearning/index_e.html
There you find a link to the “MICHeL Services at the University of hamburg’s regional computer center” which provides a brief description of the motivation of elearning. This is only in german to find at:
http://www.michel.uni-hamburg.de/elearning.php (link no longer available)
e-learning is categorized here as a method rather than a way to change from direct interaction in learning processes to complete virtualisation. It is said that e-learning is much more than just put material in the web to download for other people. The idea is to provide tools for linking learning content with presentation technics and to use virtual rooms for communication and learning processes.
A second source i want to mention is the wiki we created with prof. Breier for didactic of informatics:
http://webapp5.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/info-standards/infobiki/index.php/Hauptseite (link no longer available)
There are some links available about e-learning because this topic is also much linked to informatics in schools. It is mainly written in german. At ” Unterrichtsmaterial” there are some examples which are also based on e-learning. At “Informatik-Portale” you can also find platforms which provide examples for e-learning, f.e. swisseduc.ch, where you have examples for e-learning prooved in schools.
the description of e-learning is a mix of practical experiences in schools and other institutions aseminars/summer2008/2008/04/09/intermediate-results/nd on the other hand still in process. In Informatics you do not only use e-learning as a method but also as a content itself, as it is a way f.e. for software development to use communication via internet with tools where the learning process is also part of the development.
Last example i want to mention the following blog, which sounds interesting, but which i did not proove much on its content. So maybe i would disagree with their attitude towards e-learning but for shure they provide a lot of examples:
http://elearning-global.blogspot.com/
Last point was to mention my personal own view on the topic:
I think it makes sense to see the whole topic as an experiment to be developed and analysed in practice. It is for me not the best way to use as much technics as possible but as much as is “angemessen” / fitting to the content the learning project is about.
Sometimes it makes even more sense to have a personal discussion than a weblog or something, sometimes it makes much more sense to use technics, f.e. for centralise information about an ongoing longterm project which is based on part-projects which have to be approved with each other.
I think it is good to give more people the opportunity to train these technics to be able to reflect and choose which is the best way to use or not to use for their learning context.
i prefer for my teaching to use the strategy that the content is allready part of the method, which means it is very much connected to each other and there are contents where e-learning is making sense and there are contents where it is more problematic.
thats it for now. hope to get some critics
searching for the way… [hau]
April 4th, 2008
through that blog administration.
Seems to me a bit overcrowded, so many options in the admins menue without priority-listings, so that you have to have a lot of time to find your way. I am still not able to find out, how to delete or edit our “about” text. Hmm, maybe my fault, because i am more used to wikis 
expectations and experiences [hau]
April 4th, 2008
our first task for the seminar was to write about our expectations for the seminar and experiences with e-learning. My short comment on the wiki is repeated below:
Well,
my interests in the seminar are on the one side comparing technical systems in their “social software context” meaning which kind of e-learning platform has what kind of picture of educational processes as software-development-basis.
On the other side i am interested to exchange experiences with e-learning in schools and other fields as i am studying as a teacher for informatics.
Third point would be that i am interested to develop my english conversation skills and widen my view on learning processes in different contexts outside hamburg university.
For the second question i would just comment some experiences i made with wiki, moodle and commsy technology. As the wiki process is a quite transparent and open one, when i was setting up a wiki once it was very positive to have even non-finished content allready sorted and available via internet from everywhere. other people can easily develop content in a cooporative way and via history you can recognise any changes later on. So i really like wikis for coordinating, developing documents and exchanging information. The moodle platform has a much more restrictive and observing context. it is possible to check, how often somebody “was there” and the roles of participants are of more importance, than on a wiki where there are all participants working on the “same level”.
The third is commsy, which is good for exchanging documents and has a clear structure of distinction between scheldules, announcements, groups and so on. on the other side it is not handy for documentary purposes.
thats it for the beginning 
Hauke