Tinymap.net is an awesome mapping tool. Based on Google Maps, you search to pinpoint a location, annotate it, add waypoints / points of interest, save it to its own URL, share it, and add optional password protection … and best of all … it works!
Tinymap.net is an awesome mapping tool. Based on Google Maps, you search to pinpoint a location, annotate it, add waypoints / points of interest, save it to its own URL, share it, and add optional password protection … and best of all … it works!
Thanks to a link submitted by Gary into the EdTechTalk del.icio.us folder, here is a post from the ReadWriteWeb tackling the 10 most common objections to social media adoption. It is interesting to read the point / counterpoint, but it is really intended to create conversation which we will do on Sunday’s EdTechWeekly at 7:00…
A reminder to visit the conference web site for the 24th Annual 2008 Distance Learning Conference to be held August 5 – 8, 2008 in my home state of Wisconsin (Go Badgers). The deadline for proposals is January 15th. Recordings of past sessions are in the Resources Library section. Also, check out the link to…
My favorite part of gearing up for a new semester is finding out what books to order. As usual, Amazon offered the best value all up with a combination of both new and used books. Here is the list for Spring 2008: Cognitive Psychology and Instruction, Fourth Edition by Roger H. Bruning Task Analysis Methods…
This AP article entitled Internet opens elite colleges to all both overjoys me and burns my toast. While I am happy to see the popular press paying attention to Internet delivery of education (especially open and free education), this article still burns me. Apparently, online learning is now legitimate given that "elite" schools are dipping…
Despite winter storm warnings, the graduation went off … without Granny … she stayed back at the hotel, but joined us when the snow turned to rain around the time of the basketball game. She has her priorities in order 🙂
Dr. David Wiley’s Introduction to Open Education course has been an amazing experience. I took the course as part of an Independent Study option in the last semester of my Master’s Program in Instructional Systems Technology at Indiana University. I had no idea what “open education” was before the semester started and guessed that it…
News that I will be heading to the graduation ceremony at Indiana University on Saturday, December 15th and starting the PhD program in Instructional Design and Technology at Old Dominion University a few weeks later in January of ’08. It looks to be a great program with awesome people. The PhD program is offered with…
What will the future of education look like? What impact will the open education movement have? How will we get there from here? To answer these questions, I decided to circle back to a presentation Dr. Anne Leftwich and I delivered at the 2007 Open Education Conference. We didn’t have much time for audience reaction…