I’ve been reminded several times lately of some of the greatest words that you can hear coming out of a teacher’s mouth who is still fairly new to all of this 2.0 stuff: “I’m not really sure how to do that; but I’m willing to giving it a try.” Pure gold. Photo Credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/turbojoe/417829347/sizes/m/
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- Research in Motion (RIM), the Canadian company that makes Blackberry phones, is in trouble with a few countries in the Middle East. Beginning with the United Arab Emirates, but also with Saudi Arabia and India, RIM is facing tight deadlines. These nations have all threatened to block Blackberry Messenger as well as email...
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- </rant> It’s August, which means my brain is slowly turning itself towards thoughts of school and the still-a-month-off year ahead. As I’ve been doing a bit of reading and surfing, paying more attention to education news, one marketing word has caught my eye repeatedly already: “easy.” As in products advertising how easy they...
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- Many classrooms and schools are moving (or have already moved) a lot of their services towards cloud based computing. Everything from web based file storage to applications such as google docs have been moved online. This is why I thought people might be interested in this new service called CloudSleuth. Cloudsleuth monitors the...
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- Like many kids, my own children would spend endless hours with their Wii or their Nintendo DS systems. Unfortunately for my own children, they have mean parents who restrict their time, kick them outside to play (one of the advantages of living in a small town) and who won’t let them play World...
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As a true fan of the work of John Seely Brown, I started reading his new book, Pull, today. I’ve already got a question. The book mentions the premise of the spiky world. This is the idea put forward by Richard Florida that the world is not necessarily flat at all, but instead is...
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Ning died to me today. If you haven’t heard the news, Ning, the space that let you design a free social network of your own, moved to a pay for use premium model today. This means that any future networks created need to be paid for. I understand why this needs to be done....
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A lot of talk this weekend on blogs and twitter about Apple’s new wonder product, the iPad. Short of living under a very large rock in the bottom of a cave, I’m certain that you know all about it. Wired magazine has posted a great article about tablets and how the iPad has the...
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I like the idea of this video. It has to do with Education (with a capital “E”) and not with schooling. This is what happens when the John Lennon Bus shows up at TED.
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I found this in my Google Reader this morning: “How do we get new ideas? By hammering down on old insight, trying to figure out a new way of looking at it? Or going straight to the core and finding a completely new way of gathering knowledge? Where do the good ideas start? ……....
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