Monthly Archives: February 2007

StumbleUpon, the video

Mikhail Gershovich forwarded me a great video via del.icio.us, I immediately realized he found the cartoon through Stumble Upon’s relatively new video referral feature (it was released in early December 2006 was discussed on Tech Crunch here). I have been … Continue reading

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Northern Voice Postscript

I got home about eight hours ago from a two-day traveling saga. While I am glad to be back, things are not the same for me on many levels. Ideas of commitment, integrity, and the political nature of the work … Continue reading

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Building Rich Communities with Wikis

Stewart Mader and John Willinsky separately discussed how we imagine the wiki in new and powerful ways. Stewart Mader did an excellent job of giving an overview of re-conceptualizing the wiki space as a collaborative, distributed publishing platform, while John … Continue reading

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Social Software for Learning Environments

D’Arcy Norman, Chris Lott, Sylvia Currie, and Jon Beasley-Murray combined forces examining a wide array of issues facing the integration of social software into the learning environment. At the core of these various discussions was the enigma of community -what … Continue reading

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Chris Lott’s Brain -a great place to be!

Chris Lott‘s has been gracious enough to let us into his brain. Here are three questions he is working through now: 1. radically increasing bandwidth, processing, and storage capacity 2. changing student demographics because of access to that technology and … Continue reading

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The wiki has been made a blog… story at 11!

All I am gonna say right now is that John Maxwell, presenter of “designing a smarter wiki” (see his notes in the Northern Voice wiki) has effectively married the wiki and the blog. Amazing stuff, check this out: is it … Continue reading

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So close, but so far?: Mashups, RSS, and chasing the eduglu dream

Beware Sucka: this is a collection of notes, ideas, and brief reflections -so sense and cohesion is not the common denominator here (I guess kinda par for the course) First session at Northern Voice 2007 I attended was Mashup for … Continue reading

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Northern Voice: here I come, baby!!!

I am getting really, really fired up now. I am in the Richmond, VA airport -it’s 6:30 am and I ready to go downright crazy with anticipation. So, I’ll quote a video that Andy Rush linked to a while back … Continue reading

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WordPress Litebox Plugin…

If you’ve drooled over those cool ajax-fueled image overlays, then this Lite’s for you!

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Planet Northern Voice

I was pretty blown away when I saw the aggregated feeds for the folks who will be attending Northern Voice. Truly amazing stuff, it is humbling to see how many people are regularly posting such cool stuff. Take a look … Continue reading

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