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When it comes to communication in the 21st century, email is NOT good enough. We need to encourage more educators to SHARE ideas, resources, and media using tools like Posterous! If you can send an email, you can use Posterous. Many messages we create still SHOULD be sent with a "one to one" or "one to a defined many" distribution, but many of our ideas CAN and SHOULD be shared with "an undefined many." When we share ideas in this way, there is NO LIMIT to the number of people who could theoretically encounter and be influenced by our ideas. That is VERY powerful! To do this, we need to post content online using a tool like Posterous.

The trouble with Creative Commons, and with copyright in general, is that the rights are focused solely on the needs and interests of the copyright owner, and is silent regarding the situation of the user. Even the common conditions for exemption under fair dealing (that the use is non-commercial, that it is educational, that it is transformative, etc.) there is no reference to the situation of the user, beyond the specific terms of use of the material.

Information graphics or infographics are graphic visual representations of information, data or knowledge. These graphics present complex information quickly and clearly, such as in signs, maps, journalism, technical writing, and education.You can find many mnay interesting infographic about anything but today i want to showcase the infographics about social media and internet.

Vortrag auf der Socialbar Berlin am 1. Dezember 2009 über Überzeugungsstrategien zur Integration sozialer Medien in den Kommunikationsmix von Nicht-Regierungs-Organisationen.

That tool is abductive reasoning

The vast majority of students are exposed to formal logic only by inference and then only to the two dominant forms of logic — deductive reasoning and inductive reasoning.

Formal logic isn’t systematically taught in our North American educational system, except to students of philosophy or the history of science.