January 9, 2010
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I have a project for 2010, and I’d love it if you came along. I’ve started a Flickr Group called 365Retro. The idea is to post one photo a day for the entire year. Now, 365 groups on Flickr are … Continue reading
September 18, 2009
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I am composing this post in Google Docs to test whether or not I can publish to my blog from Google Docs. So here is the post. If you are reading this on my blog or in my RSS feed, … Continue reading
September 11, 2009
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Did you know that over 30% of our leisure time is now spent online? Or that 20 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute? Or that worldwide, over 6 billion songs have been sold on iTunes? Where did … Continue reading
August 30, 2009
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An interesting study from Stanford this week that challenges the idea that we are adept multitaskers and can effectively deal with multiple concurrent tasks. According to the research, we’re really lousy at multitasking, and the idea that multitasking somehow makes … Continue reading
July 16, 2009
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A few days ago, just as the D2L user conference Fusion was starting in Minneapolis, I created a Twitter alert for the conference tag, #D2L09. Since I couldn’t attend this year I wanted to virtually keep track of what was … Continue reading
June 27, 2009
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Note: this is a cross post from my Dad blog, but I thought the topic would be of interest to you as well. Does your teenager have a cell phone? If they do, there is a good chance they are … Continue reading
February 11, 2009
by Clint
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Delicious was the first of the current breed of Web 2.0 social networks I signed up for. In retrospect, I wish it was one of the last because one of the things I didn’t quite realize then that I fully … Continue reading
November 27, 2008
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Wendy Drexler created this video, called The Networked Student. Wendy is a teacher in Florida, and was a student in CCK08, an open course on Connectivism offered by George Siemens and Stephen Downes this fall. If this is the first … Continue reading
November 24, 2008
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A useful interview for educators on CBC’s Spark this week. Nora Young talks with Don Tapscott (author of Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything). Tapscott talks about his book Grown Up Digital about the Net Generation and how their brains … Continue reading
November 15, 2008
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There can be little doubt that the media landscape is tectonically shifting underneath our feet. The line between media consumer and media producer exponentially erodes as the tools to participate get easier and easier to use. For educators, this raises … Continue reading