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Archive for August, 2007
Mak’n Bacn
Posted in Random on August 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Collaborating with Twitter
Posted in Tools to Try on August 22, 2007 | 3 Comments »
The hotspot today seems to be Nancy White’s wiki where people are sharing their stories about how they collaborate with Twitter. (Great idea, Nancy!) If you’ve got one, go share. If you don’t have one, go read. It’s a goldmine of ideas and things to try.
Social bookmarking
Posted in Tagging, Tools to Try on August 9, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I’m a rabid fan of del.icio.us. I just can’t seem to help myself. In the past few years I’ve collected thousands of links at the site. Looking at the tags I imagine you can learn more about me than you’d care to. For example, you can see that I’m interested in elearning (a no-brainer) but also [...]
Lawrence Lessig on free culture now with sound on Slideshare
Posted in Media, Open Content on August 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Lawrence Lessig’s classic powerpoint on Free Culture and copyright is now up with sound on Slideshare.
Say it with me …
Creativity and innovation always build on the past.
The past always tries to control the creativity that builds on it.
Free societies enable the future by limiting the past.
Ours is less and less a free society.
If you haven’t [...]
The Windmill Maker
Posted in Informal Learning, Random on August 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
William Kamkwamba is a teenager in Malawi who read a book about solar energy and built a windmill based on what he learned. The windmill generated enough power for two radios and two lights in his house. What an amazing guy. Chris Anderson interviewed him at TED.
William mentions [...]
What’s it like to be someone else?
Posted in Games, Second Life on August 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Virtual worlds like Second Life are fun but when I show it to faculty I often hear, “I like this but what can I do with it?” Why go through the hassle of learning a new technology if you can’t do something with it that you can’t do already? Good question.
Two summers ago, researchers at [...]
Learning through experience
Posted in Blended Learning, Informal Learning, Learning Design on August 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The August/September issue of Innovate is up & it’s devoted to experiential e-learning, or ee-learning. Given the preference that a lot of learners have for experiential learning, this issue is especially welcome. (You’ll need a free registration in order to see the full articles.)
Supporting experiential learning is especially tricky with technology, simply because most of us are [...]
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