Horizon Project 2008

When one sees cartoons popping up like this, one can tell that blogging is becoming an issue that companies are grappling with. Many do not understand the "mystery" of blogs and how to drive traffic.

This humorous cartoon shows how companies are struggling with blogs and how they work.

Some backlash against e-mail is beginning to be seen as people realize that the inundations of e-mail is leaving to innefficiency. (This is also true for educational organizations -- too much productivity is being lost in email when we should be creating those reports using wikis and reflecting using blogs.) This lets one see how businesses are realizing that moving from e-mail collaboration to global collaboration using blogs and wikis may just be more efficient - -there are some new studies showing this as well.

This lets one see how businesses are realizing that moving from e-mail collaboration to global collaboration using blogs and wikis may just be more efficient - -there are some new studies showing this as well.

A webcast with Diane Hammond, organizer of Yes I Can Science about her experiences organizing a blogging project between middle school science students and an astronaut on the space station. She has some interesting insights on the importance of active teacher involvement and engagement of the classroom.

This project is a great one to look at and Diane Hammond from Yes I Can Science is a wonderful resource!

This short insightful article from Alan Levine with the new media consortium explains wikis beautifully. I love it!

This view on wikis is very accurate. Alan Levine is the VP of the new media consortium that wrote the horizon report.

Fascinating article about cross-disciplinary collaboration. This is becoming something that is possible through new means of using the Internet.

Great website using Geocaching and ARG's.

We talked about Alternate Reality and a wealth of gaming tonight on Wow2 (a show the gaming as pedagogical platform group is going to need to listen to.) This is an online ARG (alternate reality game) for educators and uses Geocaching -- we're planning an upcoming show on geocaching on Wow2 -- if you know of any educators doing great work, let me know.

This article shows privacy concerns about the implicit collection of data by tracking mouse movents / clicks / keyboard.

CONSUMER GROUPS asked the US Federal Trade Commission to establish a national "Do Not Track List" that would enable Internet wibblers to prohibit advertisers from building profiles of their online activities.

LTE would make today's cable and DSL modems-as well as the "3G," or third-generation, mobile networks wireless carriers have spent billions to deploy-seem downright snail-like.

Wireless carriers have spent truck loads of money on 3G wireless. Long Term Evolution will probably cost that much again to implement

fantastic experiment not sure if the title of the article is justified in the text. Biggest complaint seems to be loss of control and authority. hmmm "Students having their classroom ideas judged not simply by their peers but by a far wider audience" and that is a bad thing because...?

So all that time I spent just watching Get Smart didn't help my Cognitive account. Does it count if I can still recite all the best lines? So your Mr.Big... So your Mr. Smart.

Adobe is trying to get its Flash player installed on more mobile devices.

Adobe will stop charging licencing fees for mobile versions of Flash and plans to publish information about the inner workings of the code. Wikinomics concept: The move is the latest in a series that are aiming to open up Flash and get MORE devleopers working with it.

referenced in Scope Conf SAF2008

A very nice video done by a student about connecting people via the network.

I enjoyed this video a lot from Ren at Goodland High School. I particularly liked the contrast of the computers at the beginning of the video. I think he did a nice job.

Wow! This student says so much very eloquently about Don Tapscott's keynote: My tenth grader says in this blog post: "A teacher should, as Don Tapscott said, no longer be a transmitter of information, but a regulator of educational settings. Our teacher Mrs. Vicki could stand in from of the class room all day and lecture us on exactly what to do and how to do it. We would ace tests and learn a lot . . . for a while… However by next year about 65% of what we learned will be irrelevant due to technology changes and development. Instead, she gives us projects to complete that pose challenges to us that can repeat themselves. Such as giving us a project to make a video by using a program we are unfamiliar with. Though we may not ever make another video, it is inevitable that we face the challenge of having to use an unfamiliar program, ergo, we will be prepared to deal with this for the rest of our lives. So in conclusion, the role of a teacher is now: to regulate the educational environment; to introduce students to the realm of ambiguities; and to no longer evaluate our overall knowledge, but our constructive, creative, and adaptive capabilities." Wow! I am humbled and impressed at what students have to say when asked and challenged!

A student's rumination on teacher roles in the classroom.

Observations by Alan Levine about the use of Ning for collaboration, specifically based upon Flat Classroom and Horizon.

Interesting observations from Alan Levine about those of us who use Nings for our projects. It truly becomes "the" ning.

Article about using games in the classroom to teach.

Very nice article about using Games in the Classroom from Todd Bryant. (Hat tip to Jo McLeay's plurk about this one.)

Yahoo is opening up its applications for others to modify. This concept was emphasised in Wikinomics.

We don't think of social as a destination but as a dimension

The film will have three acts, each three to five minutes long, with the theme loosely based on the concept of humanity.

Mr. Lee is to direct a short film comprising of videos created using their mobile phones.

Juggling spreadsheets, music, and reports between PCs may get a lot easier with a new Microsoft service called Live Mesh.

The service allows you to create a Web-based Live Desktop complete with Windows-like folders that can be shared with others and can be synched to multiple PCs. Can be extended to cell phones.

We live in a wireless world. Garry Barker meets a man whose world is more wireless than most.

Good article that explains the different wireless protocols used in mostly layman's terminology. Could create some ideas for a multi-media artifact?