Yes, yes, we’ve all heard the news by now. BlackCT Wednesday has hit. Will it be remembered as The Day the Music Died? I don’t think so. Unfortunately, it could be remembered as The Day the Music Was So Badly Wounded That It Became Barely Listenable for a Really Long Time. You know. Kinda like […]
Does Education Inflected Architecture = Web 2.0?
In my last post, I suggested that we need an architecture that is designed with a low barrier of entry for educators to actively influence and change themselves. Today, I ran into a related post by Dana Boyd, which I actually found through Hypergene Media Blog which, in turn, found it via Ben Hammersly. (Whew.) […]
Towards an Education Inflected Architecture
The title of this post was also the title of a talk by Barbara Taranto, the Director of the Digital Library Program at the New York Public Library at yesterday’s FIT conference. I just love it. An “education inflected architecture” is exactly what I crave. But beyond that, Barbara poses exactly the right challenge: For […]
Time, Ownership, and the VLE
This is the first of several posts I’ll be making about stuff I learned at yesterday’s conference at FIT–which was excellent. It’s not often that I go to a conference where I find every single speaker to be interesting, but this was certainly the case here. (Raymond Yee apparently live-blogged…er…live-wiki’ed the first part of the […]
Hurricane Katrina Strands Thousands of Avatars; FEMA Still Clueless
Check this out: After Hurricane Katrina, the operators of EverQuest II assured more than 13,000 members in the Gulf Coast region that their virtual property would be protected and preserved until they could resume playing. So all this time, over ten thousand avatars have been literally…er…virtually…er…literally virtually stranded. Apparently, former FEMA Director Michael Brown admitted […]
A Couple of More Speaking Gigs
I’ll be presenting at a couple of SUNY conferences during the first week of October. Both of them are Conferences on Computing in the Disciplines (COCIDs) sponsored by the SUNY Faculty Access to Computing Technology (FACT) Council. The first one, on Monday, October 3rd, is called Application of Mobile Technology Tools in the Online Learning […]
I'm Giving a Webinar on e-Learning Usability
Just to let you know, I’ll be presenting in a webinar this Thursday on e-Learning usability.