Posted in pedagogy, teaching, technology, tools, universal design for learning, web2.0 on Jan 19th, 2006 Comments Off
From visual searches to verbal searches, (without intending to pull an Annie Hall) Marshall “The Medium Is The Message” McLuhan must be having a celestial party right now.
Podzinger is a search engine for podcasts. Rather than allowing you to just search for a podcast based on the title, description, tags, or categories (as podcasting [...]
Posted in flickr, technology, tools, universal design for learning, web2.0 on Jan 7th, 2006 3 Comments »
Has anyone stopped to think about how computers might be different if the first widespread human-personal computer input device was the sketch pad and not the keyboard? I usually try to avoid the googly-eyed “wow” factor of new technologies, but this one, Retrievr, is very cool and has the potential for facilitating access for [...]
Posted in community of practice, epistemology, perturbation, technology, tools on Dec 28th, 2005 Comments Off
Here are some worthwhile and interesting responses to and critiques of my last post, The Emergence of Meaning: Wikipedia As Object-Centered Sociality:
Artichoke posted a response positing, “‘What does it do?’ takes precedence… over what it might mean.”
Stephan Downes writes, “…I read the value of Wikipedia differently…. Wikipedia’s article selection also varies – while editors [...]
Posted in community of practice, connectivism, critical pedagogy, learning ecology, pedagogy, perturbation, technology, tools on Oct 31st, 2005 2 Comments »
There is no question in my mind that our tools of the information age — computers, the Internet, cell phones, all the associated accoutrements — are changing the way we, as participants, do things and even think. That certainly doesn’t mean that these changes are necessarily and always changes for the good.
George Siemens of the [...]
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 [...]
