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Start skrbling
If you believe that wikis rock for collaboration, but you want a little more freedom to create and the ability to be a little more visual, here’s another cool 2.0 app that might meet your needs. (Courtesy of my friend and colleague, Ken Rodoff.) skrbl is an online whiteboard that can be shared publicly or […]
Class of 2011–the cultural context
As it has each August for the last decade, Beloit College in Wisconsin released its latest Mindset List for the Class of 2011, a reminder of what cultural context means for the young adults with work with and love, for those who turn 18 in 2007. (Also a reminder of how old I really am!) […]
Booktalking 2.0 (2.0)
A couple of weeks ago my post on Booktalking 2.0 grew too long. I was able to include the more traditional podcast booktalks and promised to later discuss another emerging strategy for promoting books digitally. So let’s explore book trailers, video book trailers, vidlit, or digital video booktalks in this post. (Note: several of these […]
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Database debate continued
As a follow-up to my last post about databases, this debate also lives on the Chronicle of Higher Education in the article, A List Without Libraries. The concern surrounded The Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies’ recent post–a list of Top 10 Tools for Learning selected by "101 (e-)learning professionals (consultants, analysts, developers, practitioners, academics, […]
On repairing database denial (and making them sexy)
I used to worry about databases. A lot. For the past several months I’ve been involved in things that most of the edtech world probably considers a little sexier than databases—blogs, and wikis, and RSS feeds, and tagging, and Twitter, and digital storytelling—you get the idea. Last night fellow Twitters Alice Barr and Durff […]
Learning 2.0: collaborating on definition and direction
Special report: We take a break in our regularly scheduled bloggraming of useful 2.0 resources to point you to a critical blog post. As many of us struggle to understand and communicate changes in information and communication culture and potential changes we see for the culture of learning and teaching, Sheryl Nussbaum Beach offers a […]
Booktalking 2.0
True confession: I was never a good booktalker. I did it at every level. I spent a week quickly reading or re-reading 10 or so books around a theme, around a genre, the new titles. I’d talk passionately about each one. At the end of the period or block, all 25 students were motivated to […]
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