Multiliteracies Evo session

There are just way too many networks to keep up with and just not enough time to follow all those conversations that are going on all of them.

Gizapage: Social Media Hub

simplifies the way people can keep up with each othe

Last night I watched the PBS Special "Digital Nation."   It was an excellent example of a "transitional" documentary.  It began with the tired harangue about how youth today are going to the dogs.   It included some very suspicious sound bites by scientists whose actual work is far more interesting and nuanced than the punditry that appeared on TV. 

It was creepy.

But I am also skeptical when the Internet is posed as the great danger to our children

Chris Anderson via telephone what he thinks will happen to print magazines (and publishing in general) as we move further and further into a digital space.

check out the current issue of Wired magazine on newsstands now; he wrote the cover story “The New Industrial Revolution.”

experimented with a variety of methods to engage my students in their learning.  My latest endeavor involves introducing different kinds of technology to enhance the teaching

PikiFriends

PikiFriends is an interactive website where students can post blogs, pictures, and short messages on each other’s page.  The purpose of creating PikiFriends was to help EFL (English as a Foreign Language) students practice elements of the English language.

Want to track a hot story being covered by multiple news outlets?

story clusters

fully customized news tracker.

My bosses at Suck.com, meanwhile, accurately predicted that the Web would soon become something between a gigantic mall catering to the lowest common denominator and an infinite tabloid echo chamber. Their mantra: Sell out early and often. Why? Because those of us musing about murderous robot showdowns (or scratching out angry cartoons under a pseudonym, for that matter) would all go back to grabbing ankle for The Man sooner than we thought. What they didn't know, and never could've predicted, was that the Web would also transform itself into an enormous, never-ending high school reunion (See also: hell).

My bosses at Suck.com, meanwhile, accurately predicted that the Web would soon become something between a gigantic mall catering to the lowest common denominator and an infinite tabloid echo chamber. Their mantra: Sell out early and often.

What they didn't know, and never could've predicted, was that the Web would also transform itself into an enormous, never-ending high school reunion (See also: hell)

We've heard lots of talk about the revolutionary nature of Web 2.0, the conversion of whole populations from passive receivers of information (and propaganda) into active citizens and critical consumers and content-creators. Skeptics don't buy it, at least not all of it.

"The Future of Education: Charting the Course of Teaching and Learning in a Networked World."

orum hosted by Steve Hargadon

This paper examines user-‍generated metadata as implemented and applied in two web services designed to share and organize digital media to better understand grassroots classification.

metadata has generally been approached in two ways: professional creation and author creation

creating metadata, primarily in the form of catalog records, has traditionally been the domain of dedicated professionals working with complex, detailed rule sets and vocabularies