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The folks at WVXU posted the audio archive of the Impact Cincinnati show last week, but I forgot to post about it here!
In the WVXU studios with Chris Brewer of Northern Kentucky University
I’m a huge fan of WVXU, the local public radio and NPR station, so it was a real treat to go downtown, see [...]
I started writing this post in 2008 but didn’t get it finished before the year ended, even with the extra second. In light of the subject, perhaps that is quite apropos.
Like most of you, I’ve been reading all of the end-of-year retrospectives and predictions posts, and scrolling through the “year in photos” or video [...]
This post is for Prof. Jenning’s Communication & Technology class. If you want to comment, please comment back on the class blog so Prof Jennings sees it! - Fleep
The quote in the title of this post comes from Gretchen Morgenson, who writes the MarketWatch column for the Sunday New York Times, on the 9/19/08 episode of PBS’ Bill Moyers Journal. Watch it.
I am so thoroughly disturbed by the current state of affairs in the US economy that I must put all political [...]
Thanks to Kevin Jarrett for this tip! (PS Kevin was just featured on an NPR segment about tech in schools! Listen here!)
WHERE WE STAND: America’s Schools in the 21st Century, premiering
Monday, September 15, 2008 at 10 p.m. on PBS, presents a frank
evaluation of our educational system’s strengths and weaknesses.
Hosted by Judy Woodruff, [...]
(This post is about the Massively Multiuser Online Course called Connectivism and Connective Knowledge being taught by George Siemens and Stephen Downes from September to December 2008. Over 1900 participants have signed up, and I am facilitating the Second Life cohort for the course. Over the following months, I will be posting about [...]
Want to know what netizens are thinking about John McCain’s pick for VP, Sarah Palin?
Click here.
Left, right, center, confused, mainstream media, international - one of the wonderful things about Twitter is that you get a truly bizarre cross-section commentary from anyone with a Twitter account.
I’ve been addicted to watching the scroll this morning, in fact [...]
Gartner Emerging Tech Hype Cycle - August 2008
Virtual World News alerted me to Gartner’s latest “Emerging Technology” Hype Cycle analysis, and I was a bit surprised to see where they placed public virtual worlds, particularly in relation to Web 2.0 and wikis.
Gartner shows wikis far out in front of Web 2.0 generally and Web 2.0 [...]
If you haven’t yet seen these videos or haven’t made the time, do it.
Kevin Kelly: Predicting the next 5,000 days of the web
Another excellent TED Talk, I continue to be a huge fan.
An anthropological introduction to YouTube
From Mike Wesch, author of another internet-famous video, The Machine is Us/ing Us. I mentioned this [...]
In about a month, the Connectivism & Connective Knowledge Course will begin. From the course wiki:
Connectivism and Connective Knowledge is a twelve week course that will explore the concepts of connectivism and connective knowledge and explore their application as a framework for theories of teaching and learning. It will outline a connectivist understanding of [...]
