Aug 03
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Repost: Future of the Net & Anthropology of YouTube

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 [...]

Author: Fleep
Jul 13
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Cure the Ear Worm - More Informal Learning

This song has been playing in my head on repeat for days on end. It got so bad I actually broke out the guitar and gave myself some good finger blisters trying to learn it. I’ve drafted some friends to help me figure out the chords that are confusing me and I thought [...]

Author: Fleep
Jun 28
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Informal Learning, Human Brains, & Cloud Computing

Informal Learning
I posted a few days ago about the Personal Economics of Social Media, and highlighted Intellagirl’s slideshow, How Social Media is Pushing Higher Ed into Identity Crisis. If you missed it, I highly recommend it.
In thinking about that post and the responses I received, I started to think about what exactly “informal learning” [...]

Author: Fleep