The Project did not last very long but I learned a few things along the way.
First, I saw how England and Scotland are using social media to address the stigma around mental health issues, with
This is me thinking outloud. It’s spoken from a fairly certain tone… but that’s only because that is the only one my fingers seem to be able to type. My bad. But I’ve been mulling this around in the…
Mark Sylvester hosted a web conference today on the role of an online community manager. Here are some highlights from my notes:
Once again, from the Twitter files this past week:
Work:
“And what I found out is that talent is much overrated. It is motivation and help that makes the difference. They [HR] talk about…
David Wiley is concerned that the radicals are taking over discussions of educational reform (in relation to open educational resources in particular). I tried posting a comment on his site…but…
Amazon has announced a new service - Virtual Private Cloud (VPC): “Minus all the acronyms, that means that Amazon has created a hybrid cloud that can work securely for the enterprise, balancing…
Humberto Maturana has stated “even revolutionaries conserve…All systems only exist as long as there is conservation of that which defines them”. The concept revolutionaries as conservators is…
Businesses, schools, and universities are having difficulty responding to emerging technologies. The newspaper industry, for example, is not having an easy time adjusting to the internet. If you’re…
Michael Feldstein links to a thorough review of learning management systems in higher education: presentation (webex) and slides (.pdf). The presentation starts with a bit of background noise…
The one consistent defense I hear when I suggest that multitasking doesn’t exist (i.e. that learners don’t actually multitask…they rapidly task switch, leaving observers with the impression they are…
Valdis Krebs shares a simple network approach to analyzing how organizations can gain better awareness of regional innovation: Regional Economic Development. It’s a simple process: collect list of…
After a rather negative experience due to a poorly managed peer review process with an article I submitted to a journal, I decided to post a few thoughts on what good peer review “should do” for…
In Become a meta L&D Manager (requires free registration), my colleagues Jay Cross & Clark Quinn advise that it’s time to take a broader look at learning in the organization:
Your charter as…
Matthew Hodgson asks at The AppGap what participation and engagement really mean and he refers to the IAP2 core values of public participation. These values, based on “the belief that those who…
People have heard alot about it… but Open Ed 09 was a transformative experience for alot of people. The four months i spent thinking about the presentation that i did there, the responses to it,…
In a couple of weeks, both Tess and Tucker will be starting their first day at brand new schools. They’ll know no one, have all new teachers, new surroundings, and, hopefully, new opportunities. I’m…
Like many people, I store much of my data in what is very loosely called “the cloud”. Google stores many of my documents, email, social contacts, and calendar. Ning holds many of my online…
The prominence of mobile devices (particular smart phones) is raising the profile of location-aware programs. When I search on my iPhone, Google wants to know my location so it can provide more…
Reading this morning’s LA Times article about Governor Ah-nold’s latest recipe for “reforming” education in California, one word kept popping into my brain.
“Blackmail.”
What do you think the…
From the twitter files this past week:
Many US films don’t even bother to register in Canada and they complain about copyright infringement? via @michaelgeist
Textbook publishers are experiencing turmoil. Change pressures are amplified by the open education movement. A new model is clearly needed. Flatworld Knowledge is currently the most innovative…
danah boyd challenges technological determinism: some thoughts on technophilia:
It is easy to fall in love with technology. It is equally easy to fear it…I want to push back against our utopian…
How do we create change? This question sits centrally in many discussions on the use of technology in learning as well as the broader “how do we improve education” movement. Grassroots change has…
Humans create tools to extend their potential. Plows to accelerate digging dirt with hands. “The wheel” to accelerate travels. Clubs, swords, and explosives to accelerate our ability to kill. Most…
I’ve called my blog my persistent presence on the Web. It’s the one place that hasn’t changed over the years; it’s just got a bit bigger. As more social media applications come and go and we see…
Online learning - after 15 years of hype - is now recognized as a viable solution to some rather complex problems facing universities - see Online Campus could solve many of U of California’s…
I have little doubt that industrial management and all that it has created (chain of command, human resources, line & staff, production, etc.) are the wrong models for the emerging, networked…
This week I made the leap back to Identi.ca, so who knows how many more Friday’s finds on Twitter I’ll be posting. From the past week:
An open letter from an actual Starbucks front-line…
Mark Dowds has released a white paper (PDF) on his new software venture, Brainpark, and knowing Mark, I’m sure it will be something completely different from the run of the mill software being…
Content sources are disaggregating. Courses, albums, newspapers, and even TV programs (i.e. the 5 min YouTube video) are fragmenting into smaller pieces. Which, of course, increases options for…
Some readers may find this useful: Eight Issues to Consider in Your Enterprise’s Internal Social Software Policy. Unfortunately, strategies seem to lead to policies and policies risk being an…
I posted a few thoughts on my connectivism blog on who loses in open education and the disaggregation of the teaching role in universities: Here we are…there we are going.
Bonnie has an expression that she used to use talking about a zone that I used to get into more than I do now. ‘public dave’. Public dave is a bit of a machine I’m afraid. There is no conversation…
Gaurav Mishra wrote a guest blog post at Beth Kanter’s blog, on the 4 C’s of social media, complete with explanations and possible uses of this framework:
Earlier this week, Dave Cormier and I hosted our second session on Social Media: Trends and Implications. Session recordings for both July and August are now available. We’re still finding the…
More is not always better, especially with a network. Densely connected networks actually serve to stifle innovation. Granovetter recognized (.pdf) that network formations influence information…
Web 2.0: A Strategy Guide by Amy Shuen covers many of the business aspects of Web 2.0 and is aimed at the general business reader. As Shuen says in the introduction, “you don’t need an M.B.A. or a…
Hardly surprising: Why Groups Fail to Share Information Effectively: “When asked to make a group decision, instead of sharing vital information known only to themselves, people tend to repeat…
A few months ago, a tech director for a fairly large school district looked me straight in the eye and said “I’m not giving teachers desktop overrides to anything on our filter ’cause I know damn…
I wrote about the importance of owning your data for blogging a while back and last week’s Twitter crash coupled with the demise of an URL shortener only reinforce that in my mind. The case of…
This week saw Twitter crash due to a distributed denial of service attack that also affected Facebook to some extent, but now (via @MiNutrition) you can find out if twitter is down at any given…
Creating successful schools entail far more than simply focusing on single elements. In Dumb Money or Dumb Coverage?, Stephen Downes critiques a Newsweek article on the subject of improving…
I’ve posted a few thoughts on the future of campus bookstores. Short view: it’s not a bright future and, whatever it is, it won’t be defined by status quo.
Future Knowledge Ecosystems: The Next Twenty Years of Technology-Led Economic Development is a frustrating read. It’s concerned with the future of “self-contained research parks”. Most research…
Here, in a nutshell, is why we need to teach the learning potentials of social Web technologies in K-12.
In an article titled “Today’s Question: Should social media be used in education?” in The…
We’re having our first Sackville Local Food Day on Saturday August 15th from 9:00 am to 1.30 pm at the Farmers Market on Bridge Street.
Intel has posted a report on developing an enterprise social computing strategy. The report doesn’t reveal anything astonishingly new, but does provide a practical overview of how large…
Perhaps by now, we have enough variations of Descartes famous declaration? Apparently not: I think critically, therefore I am:
By studying the theory of critical thinking and tenaciously…
