The new 360 report by the e learning guild on e learning 2.0 has some fantastic data on what and who is driving the adoption of web 2.0 tools in e learning. I’ve been trying to make sense of the data, especially in relation to other reports that have just come out like the BECTA [...]
Is this the future of interactive, collaborative online courses?
Tina Brown’s new online vessel, the Daily Beast, has just launched, with the philosophy that means it is not an aggregator, but rather in Tina’s words, a site that ”sifts, sorts, and curates.” What this means is that it provides a variety of ways to intersect with a story, [...]
From Chris Brogan’s blog, Social Media Tools Are Like Phones
“One thing we misunderstand frequently when talking about how great and amazing social media is comes from the fact that we’re thinking from the perspective of what we want the tool to do while the people who are receiving the message might be thinking about the tools [...]
An interesting post on Clive on learning: Synchronous e-learning myths #1: An hour’s enough for anyone
The accepted wisdom is that webinars need to be short and sharp, but my experience so far on delivering our online masters in photojournalism and documentary photography at the LCC suggests otherwise.
Clive notes 2 presentations at an elearning network seminar Thinking [...]
The first session of the work literacy workshop started today. The session is on social networks and focuses on facebook, linkedin and ning, and it has already inspired me to do 2 things that I was mulling over doing already but lacked the final incentive to set up. One was to properly set up my [...]
just came across this wonderful video ‘a vision of k12 students today’,
which makes a perfect compliment to michael wesch’s ‘a vision of students today’ (see my previous post). The message is ‘engage me’, exite me, energise me, let me use technology and the www – whatever, wherever, whenever. teach me to think, to create, to [...]
Enterprise VLEs and LMS like blackboard (aka blackweb) are getting a bad press these days with the rise of web2 and the edupunk concept of finding your own open source tools to create the learner centred environment everyone wants. But we have to face the fact that most large organisations like universities (mine is no [...]
In A Most Useful Definition of Citizen Journalism, Jay Rosen of NYU’s Journalism programme defines citizen media as
‘When the people formerly known as the audience employ the press tools they have in their possession to inform one another, that’s citizen journalism.’
That got me thinking as always as to how this insight about the media might [...]
Moodstream is a new site from Getty images, and is a rather strange beast.
It takes images, video and music from the Getty archives and mashes them up into a constant stream of material, which the viewer can modify according to their mood by entering their ‘emotional state’: you can be hot or cold, excited or [...]
Mashing up google maps and news events is a potentially killer app for delivering a better understanding of events on both a local and global scale. Ushahid is a very interesting site that was set up during the post election violence in Kenya to act as an incident reporting and tracking monitor for acts of [...]
