August 20, 2008
NSF and the Birth of the Internet
Ray Schroeder provides a link to a great resource: NSF and the Birth of the Internet. The site includes a mix of timelines, images, videos, interviews, etc. As prominent as the internet is in…
Social Media Classroom
Howard Rheingold has been working on a project called Social Media Classroom to incorporate emerging technologies into classrooms. An instantiation of his platform is can be seen here for an…
Student resources
For some, public school is already back in session, while others have a couple of weeks left. Both of our boys go back to high school after the labour day weekend. We’ve already purchased our school…
August 19, 2008
Explaining leads to information
I’ve been trying to gain a better sense of the role universities will play in society in the future. At one point, we thought content was the value point of universities. Wrong. MIT’s…
Facebook in Education
I was interviewed by a radio program today on the role of Facebook in education. My view: very little research has been conducted on whether the high communicative value of Facebook translates into…
Web 2.0
One of my favorite past times is to whine about the term web 2.0. I don’t like it. It turns what is inherently a process in to a product. It’s a marketers dream. It smacks of hype. And so on. Yet…
Classtell

Via StartUpNorth is news of a bootstrapped website creation/hosting service for teachers. Classtell reminds me of edublogs but it has some differences. Firstly, it’s Canadian and…

August 18, 2008
Location-based learning and working
For some reason, we like to do certain things in certain places. It’s not as comical a statement as it first appears. Consider work: we go to work, sit at a desk, or lecture in a classroom. We have…
Are social networking sites good for business?
I often encounter this type of question with regards to education: Are social networking sites good for business? The question assumes that SNS possess some intrinsic value in themselves. Simply…
Presentation: Designing new learning landscapes
I delivered a presentation to ABEL at York University this morning: Designing new learning landscapes. While preparing for the session, I was looking back at what kinds of questions we are…