Chris and I leave tomorrow for Bermuda to carry a friend on his final journey. This is a trip I never thought I’d make. Errol’s passing leaves a hole in our lives that’s twenty years deep. Ours was a well-aged friendship. We knew where each others’ land mines were buried. [...]
Archive for July, 2007
Safe journey
Posted in Random on July 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
An early CBC report on the growing phenomenon called “Internet”
Posted in Random on July 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
From the days when Peter Mansbridge still had a little bit of hair comes this bit of memorabilia.
UPDATE: I’d forgotten about this but came across it this morning. It’s Ethan Zuckerman’s short and very entertaining introduction to the web.
Clay Shirky on the big things we do for love
Posted in Random on July 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Sometimes we don’t realize how lucky we are to live in times like these. It’s an amazing world. Watch this.
Content is king?
Posted in Learning Design on July 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
“The results of access studies show that the actual use of online content is relatively low, with only 10-20% of students making regular use of the content.” (Lonnie Harvel, Using student-generated notes as an interface to a digital repository – pdf)
“It is sometimes estimated that online teachers spend 90% of their planning and developing creating [...]
Learning is king
Posted in Learning Design on July 11, 2007 | 2 Comments »
The Twitter paradigm
Posted in Mobile learning on July 11, 2007 | 2 Comments »
“Most people don’t want to schlep their laptops around; they like phones. Ergo Web 2.0 will be more like Twitter long-term than blogs.” (from a tweet by Hugh MacLeod)
What do you think?
A brief history of educational technology
Posted in Random on July 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Last fall I saw Martin Bean speak at the League of Innovation’s Conference on Information Technology. Martin is a wonderful speaker. One of the best bits of the presentation was a collection of quotes that I eventually tracked down & pulled into some slides. Enjoy. If you’d like a copy of the [...]
The magic question
Posted in Learning Design on July 7, 2007 | 3 Comments »
If we want to go beyond lists of topics and pages of dull explanation, if we want online courses to be relevant and practical, Will Thalheimer says the magic question we need to ask is: “What do learners need to be able to do, and in what situations do they need to do those things?” [...]
USC film students fight back
Posted in Open Content on July 7, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Like many students, USC film students don’t own the copyright to works they make as student filmmakers. The school does. As a result, they can’t share their videos online because they don’t control their own work. The students have launched a petition (which, unfortunately, looks like it’s been hacked) and are fighting back. [...]
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