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"On 1st March 2012 John Seely Brown gave a keynote presentation at the DML (Digital Media and Learning) 2012 Conference in San Francisco, called Cultivating the Entrepreneurial Learner in the 21st Century.  You can watch the recording here, and you can read the transcript here. What does it mean to be a entrepreneurial learner? JSB tells us "This does not mean how to become an entrepreneur. This really means, how do you constantly look around you all the time  for new ways, new resources to learn new things? That's the sense of entrepreneur I'm talking about that now in the networked age almost gives us unlimited possibility.""

It's read an ebook week - but nearly finished. E-books are 40 years old - who knew that?

Long list of links to ebook sites, background, subjects, hardware ...

Looks interesting - not had time to read through it yet but provides a rubric for evaluating different components of digital fluency.

The long awaited (and much previewed through individual chapter release) book by Tony Bates on teaching in the digital (read modern) age.

Scottish government strategy paper. Hopefully worth a read!

Blogging can be quite a process. First you may have to do some research, then put your thoughts together, and of course add any necessary screenshots and images. Let's not forget the optimization part (SEO, keywords, etc) and sharing your content on the Web so that others will read it and hopefully share it. With all of these steps involved, blogging can be quite time-consuming and many bloggers get burnt out rather quickly doing these things on a daily basis.

Where to find Audrey Watters writing on Ed Tech now she's left ReadWriteWeb.

"The tools I tested are Delicious, Diigo, Pinterest, PortaPortal, Scoop.It, Sqworl, Symbaloo, WordPress pages, and the WP-Table Reloader plugin."