What are the advantages of formal vs. informal networks? Any way to have it both ways? Or is it an inevitable conflict? I tried to tackle these question in class this week (yes, buried deep within the bowels of Blackboard never to see the light of day). I’m bringing the post out here (cut and…
The buzz today is that Sony is ready to introduce the new $350 mylo (short for my life online), a wi-fi enabled "broadband communicator" that doesn't have a cell phone (hence, no cell carrier Internet access). While the lack of a phone avoids the relatively high monthly data plans from a cell carrier, it would…
Join us at EdTechWeekly on Sunday nights at 7:00 p.m. ET on the EdTechTalk.com channel of the WorldBridges network. Here is the list of links we will be discussing during this week’s live webcast. Feel free to add your suggestions by adding a del.icio.us tag of “for:edtechtalk” to your favorite links. See you Sunday night!…
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…
During our little weekly discussions at EdTechWeekly , we've joked a fair amount about Google (Big Brother) gathering up all of our personal data to take over the world. Today, I ran across a new "feature" (?) of Google Reader that displayed my recent blog reading habits. While it provided me with several moments of…
Dr. Amy Adcock routed this video around and I’ll just post it here without commentary (it could spoil it if I say more) … take a peek at the video and let me know the outcome in the comments section.