"Predicting the future is easy. It's trying to figure out what's going on now that's hard" (Dressler, 2005)
Cory Doctorow had a post the other day entitled “You Should Be Using an RSS Reader”…and guess what? My RSS reader – Feedly – picked up this article because my reader subscribes to Stephen Downes, and he had a post about it. Which was precisely Cory’s point! Rather than letting others tell you what to… Read more What Comes Around … RSS
Over the past month or so, we have taken our students in GRAD 602 on a carefully scaffolded journey through web technology to support teaching and learning. With Jeff Nugent and our graduate fellow, David McLeod, we have laid out how the web is impacting the landscape of learning, suggested the use of Chickering and… Read more From Aggregation to Curation
I have posted several times about the power of using RSS feeds to make sense of the vast array of information in the World Wide Web. It appears to me that few faculty recognize (yet) just how transformational it is to move from a “surfer” of the web to one where the web comes to… Read more Aggregation Three Ways