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mapping the news 1
Mashing up google maps and news events is a potentially killer app for delivering a better understanding of events on both a local and global scale. Ushahid is a very interesting site that was set up...
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Moodstream from Getty
Moodstream is a new site from Getty images, and is a rather strange beast. It takes images, video and music from the Getty archives and mashes them up into a constant stream of material, which the...
View Articlefrom citizen journalism to citizen educators??
In A Most Useful Definition of Citizen Journalism, Jay Rosen of NYU’s Journalism programme defines citizen media as ‘When the people formerly known as the audience employ the press tools they have in...
View Articlemashing the vle???
Enterprise VLEs and LMS like blackboard (aka blackweb) are getting a bad press these days with the rise of web2 and the edupunk concept of finding your own open source tools to create the learner...
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engage me……..
just came across this wonderful video ‘a vision of k12 students today’, which makes a perfect compliment to michael wesch’s ‘a vision of students today’ (see my previous post). The message is ‘engage...
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Work Literacy
The first session of the work literacy workshop started today. The session is on social networks and focuses on facebook, linkedin and ning, and it has already inspired me to do 2 things that I was...
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How long is too long for synchronous sessions?
An interesting post on Clive on learning: Synchronous e-learning myths #1: An hour’s enough for anyone The accepted wisdom is that webinars need to be short and sharp, but my experience so far on...
View ArticleSocial Media Tools Are Like Phones
From Chris Brogan’s blog, Social Media Tools Are Like Phones “One thing we misunderstand frequently when talking about how great and amazing social media is comes from the fact that we’re thinking from...
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Feed the Beast: Tina Brown and the future of interactive, collaborative...
Is this the future of interactive, collaborative online courses? Tina Brown’s new online vessel, the Daily Beast, has just launched, with the philosophy that means it is not an aggregator, but rather...
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Whose driving E learning 2.0??
The new 360 report by the e learning guild on e learning 2.0 has some fantastic data on what and who is driving the adoption of web 2.0 tools in e learning. I’ve been trying to make sense of the data,...
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