I spent many years of my adult life working in and around the World Trade Center. After 9/11, I worked directly across the street to the east at 1 Liberty Plaza. My husband works directly across the street to the west in the Financial Center. Even though I have walked through and around the site […]
In one of my online classes, a few of us have been having a sidebar discussion on the human interaction that we feel as "missing" in an online learning environment. We've had some great back and forth "conversations" in the asynchronous discussion forum that began when a fellow online classmate made the statement, "I can't help but
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The worst part about getting an online degree from a university in another state is missing the big football games on Saturday. The planets have aligned and my undergrad school, University of Wisconsin – Madison, is playing my husband's undergrad school, Western Illinois Leathernecks, on Saturday. So, we're sitting at Newark about to get on
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Not the most earth shattering news (by any stretch), but I found it interesting that the word "aggregator" is not in the Google spell check on my tool bar or in the Flock blog posting tool. The only reason this is worthy of 5 seconds of thought is that it highlights the fact that the
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The Read / Write Web announced that they will be profiling a roundup of web "office" applications. Just a heads up to point your browser or aggregator to Read / Write Web if you are interested in following along . . .
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In this podcast, I contrast the experience of "learning" within a lecture based (tell me) setting to a guided (let me try) exploration. I argue that a well designed and facilitated guided exploration sets in motion the ultimate cycle of learning, creating and sharing. Links referenced in this podcast include: Trendwatching.com Trendwatching September 2006 Briefing
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I subscribe to a terrific web newsletter at Trendwatching.com. Their September 2006 Trend Briefing just came out and it dissects a growing consumer and business trend that they have been covering for months. Trendwatching has been following the consumer segment dubbed "Generation C " (consumers who want to acquire and share "C"ontent and "C"reativity), as
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… your husband walks in with the mail and exclaims, "Your geeky education magazine is here!" … and then you spend the next hour reading the September 2006 issue of T&D magazine and the ASTD publications catalog. By the way, here is a link to a list of real-time conferencing tools mentioned by Darin Hartley
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While I normal limit my referrals to "free stuff", this one falls in the "inexpensive" category. Given that I am a horrible speller, I may just have to shell out a few bucks to try one of the Merriam-Webster mobile dictionaries. For under $20, you can get one with 40,000 definitions, a thesaurus and audio
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Introducing the offical seal for this site. As I've stated before, this Drupal enabled site has become my Personal Learning Environment. This just makes it "official". p.s. If you would like to make your own official seal, check it out.
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