If you think keeping up with forums is hard now, imagine if every user has their own (Martin Dougiamas, Moodle/RUconnected chief developer).

This blog looks at attempts to keep students engaged with RUconnected (Moodle) through the use of multi-media-rich Power Point presentations. I also explore the possibilities for the development of RUconnected as a blogger sphere.

While it is revealing to situate communitarianism in its global and historic context, and I’ll briefly look at these contexts, the focus of this blog is on African communitarianism, specifically that subsumed under the title ‘ubuntu’. I do this as a methodological abstraction, to bring into play a constructivist tactic in the influence of communitarianism’s specific instance in especially Southern Africa.

Play this video to observe student identity-making and self-assessment processes

Given the subject matter of journalistic television social documentary I teach, and the pedagogic interventions I make, I would prefer to present this more as a story, which includes analysis in its storyline, than to attempt some kind of meta- pedagogic reflection on an experiment, born frankly, more out of desperation than any other factor.