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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Thoughts on the Use of the Word Ethnography

Mark Oehlert

I think there is a real danger here to the reputation of ethnography if it becomes attached to activities more rightly described as market research, focus groups and so on. Using the action of “winking,” Geertz examineshow—in order to distinguish the winking from a social gesture, a twitch,etc.)—we So in a sense I remain torn.

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Co-creation

Jay Cross

reputation management. Last year, in an informal history of eLearning , I wrote: Learning isn’t content. connive = wink together. The “Community&# topic turned out to cover many potential topics: collaboration. learning with peers. social software apps. discussion groups and wikis. Communities of Practice.