Posted in community of practice, flickr, learning ecology, tools, web2.0 on Sep 29th, 2005 1 Comment »
A neat idea, started by Flickr frequentr Michel Benard: 2005 September 29 – a day on Earth.
The idea behind this photo group is to encourage as many people as possible from around the world to post one photo from one day. A collective snapshot of the planet Earth. In addition to being [...]
Posted in pedagogy, technology, universal design for learning, web2.0 on Sep 11th, 2005 Comments Off
I just finished reading (again!) But Not The Hippopotamus by Sandra Boynton to my one-year-old son (he’s at the point where he gets ecstatic about reading the same book over and over — Where’s Maisy? by Lucy Cousins is another one he loves again and again and again). To sum up the book, a [...]
Posted in connectivism, greasemonkey, pedagogy, technology, tools, universal design for learning, web2.0 on Sep 3rd, 2005 1 Comment »
After my critique of connectivism and the emphasis on the conduit, I have decided to release two conduit-oriented Greasemonkey scripts: Trope for del.icio.us and Trope for Flickr. Basically, Trope is an extension of the Flickr Tag Convergence script, yet with a funky new name and a stand-alone page on this blog (see the Trope page). [...]
Posted in connectivism, greasemonkey, pedagogy, technology, tools, universal design for learning, web2.0 on Aug 24th, 2005 2 Comments »
Flickr Tag Convergence is now Trope.
The Flickr Tag Convergence Script
A contribution to Web 2.0. Flickr Tag Convergence is a Greasemonkey script for the Mozilla Firefox browser which allows you to search for any tag on a Flickr photo page on either del.icio.us or Technorati with one mouse click. The script places small icons [...]
Posted in teaching, technology, tools, web2.0 on Aug 23rd, 2005 Comments Off
There’s alot going on in the early-adopter-web-development-community right now, and like many others (e.g., Will Richardson, Alan Levine, Brian Lamb, and David Warlick) I believe that the impact of these new technologies — and the new mindset — will (eventually) have a pretty profound impact on the field of education and the business of learning. [...]
