Learning In a Flat World

A few years back, the online comic XKCD put out a Map Of Online Communities.  I used it as an icebreaker in more than one presentation or online class. Now, Ethan Bloch has updated this view of the social media landscape with a new map: . I love the fact that even the lolcats got [...]

Yesterday, Jeff Nugent and I had the opportunity to present at the 2008 Virginia School Board Association annual convention.  We had around 40 people attend our session entitled “Email Is For Old People.”  Two were school administrators and the rest were all school board members from around the state. These were our presentations slides: Vsba2008 [...]

Over in the Bamboo Project this morning, Michele Martin has posted her interview with my colleagues, Jeff Nugent, Bud Deihl, and me. Michele did a nice job capturing the highlights of the 24-minute talk, but I thought I would add some reflections of a participant. I “met” Michele through del.icio.us earlier this year. I no [...]