"Predicting the future is easy. It's trying to figure out what's going on now that's hard" (Dressler, 2005)
One of my graduate students, Heather Buffkin, a kindergarten teacher at Mechanicsville Elementary School, found a 2006 blog post from Nellie Lide that I think captures the heart of what Web 2.0 is all about – from a very unique perspective. It is worth repeating: I was in the library yesterday just looking around and… Read more All I Really Need to Know About Web 2.0
In the business world, firms are always attempting to develop a competitive advantage over their competitors. A competitive advantage suggests that a firm is doing something that is distinctive and cannot be duplicated by others. With that as background, I observed two events in the last 24 hours that have me thinking about competitive advantage…and… Read more The Competitive Spirit
Jeff Nugent blogged a fascinating piece today on knowledge representations through tag clouds. It is a subject we had brainstormed before, but in this post, he shared his reactions to a presentation at ELI by George Siemens and Cyprien Lomas on their use of ManyEyes…a web application from IBM that looked exciting and that I… Read more Visualizations & Fine Print
At last week’s Educause Learning Initiative conference, they held an interesting session on Fear 2.0. Some videos and notes from this session can be found here. It reminded me of a blog post from last November that is still relevant, in which Terry Dolson notes: “The day after I read this {article on wired world… Read more Only Thing To Fear…
The January/February issue of Educause Review contains a wonderful article by John Seely Brown and Richard Adler entitled, “Minds on Fire: Open Education, The Long Tail, and Learning 2.0.” The article points out that in this flat world we find ourselves in, a well-educated workforce is needed with requisite competitive (read digital and social here)… Read more Passion-Based Learning
A little microblogging here. Saw this t-shirt at Despair.Com (one of my favorite websites) and immediately ordered it! Sums up my feelings some days!
Saw an interesting blog post today from Michele Martin, on “Venturing Outside of My Web 2.0 Bubble.” It caught my eye because she discussed the fact that she (and I) live in an early adopter world…and therefore forget that most of the world lives outside Web 2.0. She points out that while many technologists use… Read more From an “Old” Digital Native
I did a brown-bag workshop today for faculty. I feel that too few faculty take advantage of RSS feeds to inform their teaching and research. It occurred to me that I could impact many more faculty than the few who attend lunch sessions if I upload my presentation to SlideShare, which I did! I may… Read more RSS Workshop
Last year, I contributed to a grass-roots online effort to identify the top tools educators and others used online for learning. This was spearheaded by Jane Hart of the Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies in the UK. In all, I and 108 other professionals worldwide sent Jane their Top Ten list of tools, which… Read more My Top Web Tools (and Others…)
I shared with my graduate class the blogs I that routinely read. I must first caveat that statement by noting that I use Google Reader as an aggregator to collect any updates on a daily basis to the seventeen blogs that I subscribe to. So, in no particular order, here are my favorite educational blogs: 21st Century… Read more Education Blogs