1. SmartBoard – saved Flickr favorites in a mosaic, 2. Wireless world, 3. montage, 4. kid_camera_rwanda photography workshop 2006, 5. Pioneer’s” Hologram, 6. Ballroon Dancing Robot, 7. Nasa Exhibit, 8. Da Weeg (is nerdcurious), 9. The Techno Two
Debbie Weil writes in the Guardian about one way to deal with an overload of email. Well, we all face it to some extent, don’t we? Two bloggers in the US have declared themselves ’email bankrupt.’ Fred Wilson declared: ‘I am so far behind on email that I am declaring
According to this story on the BBC today, Google is expanding its empire into universities – with entire campus e-mail networks switching over to using Google’s e-mail service. Apparently Trinity College Dublin has switched over entirely to Google’s e-mail. The new Google-based e-mail addresses (which can still be applied to
The first speaker at the Women Business & Blogging conference at DMU on Friday (8th June) was Meg Pickard, Head of Communities and User Experience for Guardian Unlimited. She spoke about “Whose Web is it anyway”. Meg introduced us to the levels of a user’s interactions with the internet starting
I can’t believe I never joined Technorati before… Technorati Profile
As you might expect, I am a daily user of forums. My favourites are a private board for a group of about a dozen e-learning consultants (we used to work together) and a hobby board, where I am in a “team” of 10. Breaking up a community into groups of
I’m not entirely sure what the difference is between podcasting, WebTV and videosharing. I suspect the difference is merely semantics and probably not important, it’s the sites that matter. Here’s an interesting site that does WebTV/podcasts. Quite a lot about entrepreneurship. http://www.thamesvalleypod.tv/
I’ve discovered a new blog from Wayne Hodgins He discusses an excellent online learning resource about tying knots (think sailing!) and describes Pecha Kucha, the fast and furious new presentation format from Japan now sweeping America (of which more anon).
So often those who start using learning technologies (or creative technologies, or social technologies….) carry over into the new context assumptions, methods and processes that were appropriate in the old context but not in the new. However, it can take time for new ways of working to be discovered and
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