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Google Now 27 Aug 2013 | 05:25 pm
August 27, 2013 Google has just launched an elegant product called Google Now that could become a staple of my smartphone. Basically, it is a context-aware search that links to Google services via 'c...
"Which Technology Should I Use To Teach Online?": Online Technology and Communication Course Instruction 26 Aug 2013 | 11:45 pm
August 27, 2013 I think there is value in this article, but it is so oddly put together that I'm not altogether sure what to make of it. A few things: first, the discussion of technology and media, w...
Understanding the Complicity That is You: An Existential Exercise 26 Aug 2013 | 11:27 pm
Display August 27, 2013 The concept of 'identity' is a difficult topic to explore - we are all, after all, self-interested in the result - and yet one of the most oft-explored. So there is perhaps n...
The limits of Google’s openness 26 Aug 2013 | 11:02 pm
August 27, 2013 Here's how you spell 'irony' - Microsoft complains that "It seems to us that Google’ s reasons for blocking our app are manufactured so that we can’ t give our users the same experien...
News from CC China: eXtreme Learning Process 26 Aug 2013 | 10:57 pm
August 26, 2013 There are so many things wrong with this I don't know where to begin. xTreme learning seems to be some sort of sleep-deprivation based behaviour modification exercise (a lot like EST)...
Back to School Week: Learning with YouTube 26 Aug 2013 | 10:45 pm
Display August 26, 2013 I sincerely doubt Salman Khan was the first person to upload educational videos to YouTube, but that's how the narrative is being cast. And now other people who upload educat...
A Theory of Community Formation 26 Aug 2013 | 10:37 pm
Display August 26, 2013 I like this approach and I like the project, but it's important that the model be more than a taxonomy or typeology, that there be some sense of association or relatedness be...
Is Google+ the Next Big Blogging Platform? 26 Aug 2013 | 10:29 pm
August 26, 2013 My answer to the question posed in the title is "no". And the four reasons posited in this short post - rich text, editing posts, instant audience, and aceess to search - do nothing t...
Solicitation View for ADLBAA12001-0000 23 Aug 2013 | 11:57 pm
August 23, 2013 Interesting U.S. military request for research proposals to develop a 'personal assistant for learning' (PAL). "The PAL environment must allow the learner seamless access to a network...
Ed20Work Web20Tools 23 Aug 2013 | 11:31 pm
Display August 23, 2013 Joel Josephson posts, via email, "A collection of 18 useful videos produced for the Ed2.0Work EU project that introduce Skype, WizIQ, Voicethread, Voxopop, Blogger, Wordpress...
