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 doing some thinking about video on the web recently for some upcoming projects, and this has [...]
Archive for February, 2007
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 many of us do was brought into sharp focus over the last four days and [...]
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 Willinsky gave a pointed example of how wikis are informing the way his classes create, [...]
Social Software for Learning Environments
Published by February 24th, 2007 Uncategorizedin . 2 CommentsD’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 makes an effective online community? How do we foster the process of allowing these spaces [...]
Chris Lott’s Brain -a great place to be!
Published by February 24th, 2007 Uncategorizedin . 0 CommentsChris 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 their increasingly technologically mediated lives
3. advances in [...]
The wiki has been made a blog… story at 11!
Published by February 23rd, 2007 Uncategorizedin . 0 CommentsAll 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 a blog or is it a wiki? It is a wiki, and I [...]
So close, but so far?: Mashups, RSS, and chasing the eduglu dream
Published by February 23rd, 2007 Uncategorizedin . 4 CommentsBeware 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 Non-Programmers. You can follow the link to the wikified workshop outline on the NV wiki [...]
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 to express the sheer, spine-tingling excitement that I am experiencing right now at [...]
If you’ve drooled over those cool ajax-fueled image overlays, then this Lite’s for you!
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 here. I am also publishing my own WordPress “optimalized” version here. I am pretty [...]
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