I’m a bit weak when it comes to putting forward an opinion or wading into a debate. I get easily intimidated by people who speak and write with high levels of self-assurance and it is easier to be the fence sitter. That’s OK – there are plenty of lurkers all over the internet who benefit [...]
Monthly Archive for July, 2010
Read/Write Web posted today about the decline of the Startpage, the widget driven portal that in theory seems like an ideal way to get newcomers started in using social media and RSS feeds. I still have a Pageflakes page as my homepage here on Firefox on my laptop but I must admit it has become [...]
… and this is a nice treatment of that song. Lily Allen “The Fear.” mk II from phil tidy on Vimeo. 2000 people from around the UK were filmed singing The Fear for this promo for Lily Allen which was part of an Xbox Sing it with Lips game campaign. Video directed by Caswell Coggins [...]
So newspapers are dying. The decline is even more noticeable in the US. Budget help from Mint.com It is interesting to listen to many of my colleagues who still enjoy reading the daily paper over breakfast, or make a point of leisurely perusing the newspaper with a cup of coffee on their first day of [...]
If traditional media is dying and being overtaken by real time social media sources … … then why are most of the links posted by my Twitter network come from mainstream news websites? If it is generally agreed that we need educators who are self directed learners and that social media allows anyone to publish [...]
Must be a sign that certain ideas buzz around networks at a similar time, prompting a wide array of thoughts and ideas. I posted my mind dump yesterday at a similar time that Terry Freedman was pondering his own questions. Then this morning, I found that one of my very favourite online writers, Jennifer Jones, [...]
Like any educator, I love a good acronym. Like any user of social media tools, I love a good acronym. Here’s one that’s really popular – PLN. Stands for Personal Learning Network. Gets bandied around a lot by educators using social media tools. Myself included. We all think we know what we are talking about [...]
When I first started reading blogs, I used Bloglines as my aggregator. I still have my account with the feeds I had set up at the point of abandonment still piling up until I occasionally purge the lot. Over time, I switched to Google Reader which was a lot neater and easier to manage. There [...]
The big ISTE conference (formerly known as NECC) annoys me and fascinates me in equal measures. It is touted as the biggest and best edtech conference in the world, although BETT delegates might disagree and it is now pushing its “internationalist” angle. Interestingly, it is not scheduled to be held anywhere except the US for [...]
Creative Commons licence
Subscribe via Feedburner.
Recent Comments