Technorati – Blog Claim
I’m not sure the purpose, but I am “claiming” my blog in Technorati!
I’m not sure the purpose, but I am “claiming” my blog in Technorati!
I’ve resisted commenting on the flurry of posts on social media about the call for relabeling and redefining of professionals in my field as “learning engineers”. Why? Because it’s ridiculous – on so many levels. However, I will address the elephant in the room. From the best I can tell, the loudest call for the…
I’m sure this [post by Josie Fraser|http://fraser.typepad.com/edtechuk/2006/01/james_farmers_d.html] will be making the rounds as it is a nice little summary of the Edublog community.
I’m reading The Purpose Economy by Aaron Hurst. His book Powered by Pro Bono from his days at Taproot Foundation was an inspiration during the founding of Designers for Learning. In Purpose Economy (p. 23), Hurst notes three core categories of purpose desired by professionals who applied to volunteer with Taproot: Personal purpose Social purpose Societal purpose…
Still more than a little lack of understanding about this new fangled online education stuff . . . [This AP article | http://www.businessweek.com/ap/tech/D8F461R00.htm?campaign_id=apn_tech_down&chan=tc] made the rounds today in most newspapers and online. Unfortunately, I can’t say it did much to help the average Joe understand what an online college program is like or to explain…
Everything I have done on my web site, I have taught myself (scary – and it shows!) I have tried to learn the basics of Dreamweaver to create a few simple intro pages. Also, I have taken advatage of provided HTML “cut and paste” to integrate things like Bloglines blog roles and Furl Bookmarks. I…
For about a decade, I joined my virtual online buddies each Sunday night to review the latest educational technologies on a live webcast called EdTechWeekly. The webcast started in the mid-2000s during the height of Web 2.0. It’s the main reason I’m the within the first 13,600 people to have a Twitter account. We started…