Brad’s Ve-learning project

The other day I filled in a survey – I think the link came via email, & it looked interesting & relevant, being a Flexiblelearning.net project on Social Software for Learning -

“The purpose of this survey is to identify how ‘social software’ or ‘Web 2.0’ technologies are currently being used in teaching and learning today and to gauge how social software can significantly contribute to certain forms of learning”

As usual I can’t help myself with forced choice survey questions & make a welter of the open ended questions.  Soon after I received an email from Val Evans, one of the research team, in response to some of my comments.  A few email exchanges later & the project includes one of my referred readings as a discussion starter, & the following

“your delicious tagging is brilliant! … I would love to include these links in our research wiki as an example of social bookmarking – nobody has offered such well-organised links to-date. Would that be okay? 

Also your horticulture wiki is a great example how a statewide system can collaborate. In fact, you could spread it even wider and make it national. Again, with permission, can I include it as an example on our wiki under Teaching and Learning sites?”

With all due humility (the tagging is a very basic first effort), who am I to refuse?  So this project is now recorded on her Project wiki at http://socialsoftware-research.wikispaces.com/TandLSites  and lo and behold I also have a comment on the post beneath.  Good grief – from initial spam to the CEO of pbWIKI one day, and Val the next – I have a readership !