Turing’s Cathedral
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I’m an advocate for technology use for learning, teaching, and interacting.
Not quite at a transhumanist level, but still an advocate. Sometimes, I’m
enthr...
The Intersection of Educational Use and Fair Use
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Ahrash Bissell has a new post on how much educational use actually
constitutes fair use under the law. Bissell argues that the definition of
use is too vag...
Cool Websites and Tools [November 10]
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Check out some of the latest MakeUseOf discoveries. All listed websites are
FREE (or come with a decent free account option). No trials or buy-to-use
crapl...
Mobile Learning Research Workshop
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I’ve been kindly invited a mobile learning research workshop at the
University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) in a couple of weeks, facilitated by
Laurel Dyso...
Smartphone users, keep complaining
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Want great software for your mobile phone? Keep up the complaints. That was
the message at a Tuesday session aimed at developers at the BlackBerry
Develope...
DiscoverEd
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This Creative Commons site provides a starting point to search for open
educational resources. Search results are given a brief description and
identified ...
Economics Lessons Using Planet Money Podcasts
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Planet Money is a production of NPR covering the global economy. One of the
services Planet Money offers is regular podcasts containing news and lessons
ab...
Pirate Talk
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Saw a great feature in Facebook today that changes the native language to
English Pirate. Made me really laugh and it is easy to do … 1) Scroll to the
bott...
Microsoft Security Updates November 2009
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Microsoft has released six security bulletins today as part of their monthly
Tuesday patch day which fix a total of 15 different security vulnerabilities
i...
New ESEA
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Punchline: It’s going to be awfully hard to get a bill. Or at least so I
argue in US News. National Journal’s ed blog is debating the what’s next
quest...
Yet another renaissance for the training video
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Last week I participated in a webinar hosted by Video Arts, one of the
world's most successful vendors of training films, perhaps most famous for
the com...
Pic of the Day: Sarkozy Demolishes Berlin Wall
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Gordon Brown may have problems with his handwriting but for French president Nicolas Sarkozy, it's his memory that is being called into question. When Sarko ...
SocNet Users Most Open to Ads with Coupons, Deals
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Consumers are more willing to engage with - and buy from - brands on social
networking sites than previously thought, especially if the ads and
marketing m...
Orientation in Agile Learning Design
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This is the third in a series of posts on Agile Learning Design:
- Post 1 - *Agile Design: An Ethos for Creating Learning Platforms*.
- Post 2 - P...
Facebook User Hijacks Groups As A Public Service
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In what appears to be a relatively well planned campaign to build awareness
about online security, a group of users (or one individual who has multiple
acc...
Lawrence Lessig’s EDUCAUSE Keynote
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If you haven’t watched Lessig’s fantastic, passionate keynote yet, watch it.
(link to the video, in case it gets stripped from the RSS) It’s worth it, if
f...
Tribal Leaders Say Resources Wanting
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Native American tribal leaders are telling federal education officials that
the government needs to provide resources for early childhood education,
after-...
Missed Opportunities?
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I need your help. I’m supposed to be preparing for a panel session at
DevLearn 2009. But instead, I’m finding myself wondering what I’m going to
be dis...
Distributing Learning
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I pitched an idea that I’ve found exciting to the eLearning Guild, and they
gave me the opportunity to present it at their DevLearn conference. Owing
to m...
Genealogist's Journal 10 Nov 2009
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Yesterday, I began the research on the Benjamin Burrows cemetery gravestones
that are in the middle section and the back. Some are flat granite stones
with...
String Saver
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This Band-Aid for tennis rackets saved the day for me during a tournament
when I was playing well with a favorite racket, but the strings were frayed
an...
US National Survey of Student Engagement
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[With thanks to Ray Schroeder] The well organised and informative 2009 National Survey of Student Engagement [50 pages, 20 MB PDF] report is produced by Indi...
If Possible...Let's Eliminate Training
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It doesn’t always make sense to teach or educate people. Sometimes it is
better to automate the process and eliminate the need for training.
Training is t...
Vermont Dog Earns College Degree
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WCAX.COM Local Vermont News, Weather and Sports College isn't easy. There
are hours upon hours of homework and some courses are a total nightmare. But
not ...
Use It or Lose It
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In Is internet connectivity everything? from Kobus van Wyk, Kobus states,
*“The internet is only of value to teachers and learners if it is used…Many
a gym...
Show Week Numbers in Google Calendar
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Google Calendar's gallery of interesting calendars lets you add some useful
features: show week numbers, the day of the week, sunrise and sunset time
for y...
Help Shape Social Media Research
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Last month, Social Media Explorer’s first report, Customer Twervice:
Exploring Best Practices and Case Studies In Customer Service Efforts Using
Twitter, g...
This Weeks Twitter Design News Roundup N.10
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As per usual, in this weeks Twitter Design News Round-Up we have some great
web design tips, tutorials and resources, including a magnificent HTML5
referen...
Designing “Coming Soon” Pages
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Deciding what to do once you've purchased a domain but haven't yet launched
the website is always a bit of a conundrum. Leaving up your domain registr...
World War I Remembered in Second Life
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Excellent find by Stephen Grant… You can now experience the battle lines of
World War I in Second Life, thanks to The First World War Poetry Digital
Archiv...
Google Acquiring AdMob
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Google has announced it's acquiring mobile ad platform AdMob for $750
million in stock. Roger Browne comments, "If Google had allowed AdSense
publishers to...
Fake Scareware Adviser for Spyware-list.com
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*Support this site by buying from Amazon, It's safe and Secure*
Tech-Linkblog.com -- Fake Scareware Adviser for Spyware-list.com
Support this site by buyi...
Diigo Ideas: Results from my Earlier Post
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I posted a couple of weeks ago asking how you used Diigo instructionally,
and asking folks to complete a Google Form to share how they used it. Here’s
a qu...
Google Sites Upgrade with Lists
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I just noticed a cool upgrade in Google Sites. You can now embed a Google
spreadsheet as a list. This was a much need feature that allows you to edit
the s...
Ed-Tech Vendors: The Unintentional Enemy Outside?
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The session title was outrageous to bring Christian Long back from his
hiatus - a conference seminar by Chris Ridgway, Sophos, titled The Enemy
Within: Sto...
Social Media as Punk 2.0
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I saw this video recently on Richard Darell's Bit Rebel's site. When done
well, I enjoy video/animation explanations of social media and/or complex
parti...
What It Takes to Design a Magazine Cover
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This time-lapse video captures every step that's involved in designing a
typical cover page for a computer magazine until publication.
Opening up the Networks to Learners
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Brenda had promised that travel would be scaling back after last week in
Edmonton — and when you look at the calendar, it certainly looks that way.
I ju...
Create Your Own Google Custom News Sections
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For many years now, it’s been possible to subscribe to persistent (“saved”)
Google News searches and so build up your own custom dashboard views of
news… I...
Where is the money going?
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Over the weekend I was poking around in the recipient-reported data at
recovery.gov. I filtered the New Hampshire spreadsheet down to items for my
town, Ke...
How To Set Up ‘Alerts’ To Monitor Conversations!
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An important part of my daily blogging routine is monitoring mentions of me
or my blogs on the Internet. Yes sounds very vain! And this is why bloggers
no...
Suffer Me No Inefficiency
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Follow me through this path of incongruities. We live in this
hyper-connected modern age, where larger than every managed before
information is retrievable...
gr8 lol ~ Great Libraries of Learning
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Support for school libraries in Far North Queensland is gr8! The team at
the Far North Queensland FNQ Learning Development Centre – ICT, have put
together...
Marvelous Burj Dubai Fountain Show
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*Marvelous Burj Dubai Fountain Show*
I can watch this over and over again... The tallest fountain in the wo...
PKM Overview
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I will be presenting on personal knowledge management (PKM) for LearnTrends
2009 on Tuesday, 17 November at 12:00 noon Pacific (15:00 EST & 20:00 GMT).
In ...
Dan Willingham's book
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I was impressed earlier by some you tube videos and articles by Dan
Willingham (some summaries here) so when I discovered that he had written a
book I boug...
Showing the value of social media
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This month’s Big Question is one that I’m asked all the time. How do you
cost-justify social learning initiatives? Social learning is no different
from oth...
QOTD: protocol-based time travel for the web
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We are pleased that Herbert Van de Sompel will be talking about Memento, a joint project of Los Alamos National Laboratory and Old Dominion University, at OC...
Deaf Ears
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I went to a conference two weeks ago, and I am still sitting on my “what I
learned at (insert conference name here)” post. It’s not that I didn’t take
any...
Two Powerful Words: I NOTICE
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A teacher's language is a powerful teaching tool. Our language can build
children up or tear them down. It can model respectful and caring social
interacti...
Using video assessment
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Rob Whitehouse describes how he used video assessment to improve retention
and achievement with his learners. He explores with other curriculum staff
in th...
The Information Age Is Dead!
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I came across the following statement at the AASLS Smackdown wiki this
morning: According to The Associated Colleges of the South, “using critical
thinking...
The (un)certainty of professional persistence
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There has been a lot of good discussion on my post about the future of
books, libraries, librarians, and schools (thank you, everyone). In addition
to the ...
A Decade of Global Learning
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I was browsing through some old files this week and I stumbled across this
wonderful piece of video that brought back some great memories for me. It’s
jus...
Venezuela bans violent video games
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Ugh, yet another country… Last Thursday in Venezuela, a new law
criminalizing “violent” video games and toys was approved by the National
Assembly. The la...
UK diary #2 – Terry Freedman
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I’ve just returned from a very enjoyable evening out with Terry Freedman
(next to me) and his wife Elaine (far left) – along with my colleagues Ali
Hughes ...
Kicking The Tires on Google Wave
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Finally – my Google Wave invite is here. I have heard that if you get
invited by someone else, don't mention their name on a public site – because
that per...
Teachers as Learners (Part 32)
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Recently at the beginning of a day long workshop, I used a Google form to
get feedback on this question: If there was one part of your personal
learning pr...
18.312 Algebraic Combinatorics (MIT)
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This is an introductory course in algebraic combinatorics. No prior
knowledge of combinatorics is expected, but assumes a familiarity with
linear algebra a...
Free Educational Technology Workshops
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The Instructional Design and Technology program at The University of Memphis
is pleased to offer FREE workshops on Apple tools and applications. These
will...
Presenting the Value of Social Media for Learning
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I've received various forms of the same question from different people over
the past few years. The basic question is:
How do I communicate the value of so...
Gentle Reminder - November 4th
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Please join us this Wednesday around the campfire as Telos String moderates
a book discussion on the book mentioned by Scott McLeod during the August
DEN L...
Halloween Lesson
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This is a great example of a teacher using technology to have some fun with
his students in his pre-Halloween class. It was made for a Nature of Math
cla...
SMARTBoards and the Halloween Safety House
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students would come up to the SMART Board and touch on one of the Halloween characters. If they find the right one, it will show them a new Halloween safety ...
Dear Scholastic, Since I am a Mind you “Admire”
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Scholastic recently chose to censor a book (or more accurately ask an author
to alter her book-which is a form of censorship) because one of the
characters...
An Intern to Be Proud Of
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My undergraduate student intern has completed her installation of
photographs from the first days of the Berlin Wall in a show she calls Halt!
Grenze. She ...
Social Networks for Learning Languages
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Learning Languages is now a separate learning area in the new curriculum and compulsory for schools to provide the opportunity for Years 7 – 10 to learn an a...
Facebook to keep profiles of the dead
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When a person dies, what happens to their Facebook account? The walls of
friends who have passed away have been quickly filled with memories and
comment...
On Open Access
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Responding to Stevan Harnad, who writes of Jason Baird Jackson that he is
"giving the wrong advice on Open Access, recommending a strategy that has
not onl...
paper review: Mobile learning paper summary
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Mobile learning, South-Africa, case study.... this is a perfect combination
to build an interesting paper. The paper I summarize here is part of a
mobile ...
uLearn09 - Wrapup
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Well, we've been back at school for nearly 2 weeks now, and I am keen to get my boys in a lab to try some things, though this will likely have to wait until ...
Storyboarding Video
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This is the video I’d use to teach storyboarding. I might try showing them
the finished version and ask them to reverse engineering the storyboards.
PSYOP ...
Prior Knowledge and The Flow of Learning
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Engagement A friend gives you free tickets to an upcoming concert. Although
the group is fairly popular, you are not familiar with the artist’s body of
wo...
Here’s how to get help while I’m on holidays!
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Yes I know unusual post But the problem is every day I receive requests for
assistance via my personal email account, Twitter, IM, comments on blog
posts e...
Working Towards Sustainable Schools
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Today is Blog Action Day 2009 – a day in which thousands of blogs will be
posting on one topic – and I wanted to share some thoughts on education, the
envi...
63.01 - Moving Beyond “Short-termism” by Bill George
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Click here to visit the site. Click here to download the PDF. “In the summer
of 2008, Lehman Brothers and AIG were renowned power-players and titans of
fin...
Teach a Goldfish New Tricks
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This is a repost. The original article was published on October 30, 2008.
by Jeremy If you have heard of dogs doing tricks, now there are fish doing
trick...
Life is complicated
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To make things even more complicated, this week I announced the OFFICIAL
launch of Collin Kromke Photography, serving Sun Prairie and Madison, WI.
http://c...
Moving to new website..
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I’ve been playing with a new website design and have been intending to move
everything over to the http://fleeptuque.com domain for some time, but I was
wo...
Tearing down the classroom walls
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“Dude. Let’s tear down the barriers to organizationl learning though a
mobile learning platform, also known as an MLN.” We’ve recently spent some
time on...
Charges Against Henry Louis Gates Jr. to Be Dropped
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Authorities in Cambridge, Mass., agreed not to prosecute the Harvard scholar
for disorderly conduct for alleged statements to the police investigating a
...
WiAOC09 - Real English Lessons and Videos
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WiAOC 2009
Real English Lessons and Videos
May 22, 2009
RealEnglish.com is known in the community for its collection of EFL/ESL
Videos, but the new Lesson...
Introducing the New CommonCraft.com
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A few months back, we made re-thinking our web site a top priority. We
needed a better way to organize, display and sell our videos. At the same
time, we...
home
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The aim of this site is to help you gain the skills to build your own
personal learning network (PLN)! This is a demonstration of how to write on
a wiki! ...
A day in the life of a third world citizen
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What a day today! I started classes at school, woke up at six for the first
time since December (except for a couple of days in February), met my
students,...
Super EPhone M8
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I am a enthusiastic e-electronics fan just like many young people nowadays.
I like to share ideas and opinions with my friends on e-items. Days before,
one...
I Have Something to Say
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I have something to say, but I won’t be saying it here. I’m setting up new
digs at http://www.jentropy.com. I won’t be writing about ed tech, and it’s
no...
Open Collaboration. An outline.
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Open code increases collaboration because… it allows for peer review and and
shared construction of knowledge. The code-base is the collaborative medium.
S...
Edublog Nominations for Bouncing Around the World
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UPDATE!!! We won. This is a people’s award if I ever saw one. Thank you
everyone. AND … we came second for the class blog award! Congratulations
minis. Tha...
Milestones or millstones?
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... the 'how' of eLearning development is being stymied by a corporate
addiction to project management methodology. You know the deal - "start
here, hit th...
Connectivism course starts Monday...
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As mentioned in June, we are offering an open online course on Connectivism. The course begins on Monday and is freely available to anyone with an interest i...
Eclipse JSF Tools Turns 1.0
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I would like to congratulate Raghu Srinivasan from Oracle (Eclipse JSF Tools
Project Lead) and his team for helping the community produce its first
officia...