I Will Teach You To Be Rich:
I’m always on the lookout for “hidden gems,” or people who are doing remarkable work that the whole world hasn’t caught on to, yet. Today, I asked my friend Cal Newport to illustrate how he completely dominates as a post-doc at MIT, author of multiple books, and popular blogger. How does he do it all?Cal writes one of the b (Read More)
The Innovative Educator:
The U.S. Department of Education is developing a new National Educational Technology Plan to provide a vision for how information and communication technologies can help transform American education. The plan will provide a set of concrete goals that can inform state and local educational technology plans as well as inspire (Read More)
Submitted by Catepol
from Google Reader:
At DevLearn, many people lamented the difficulty of explaining the benefits of social media to their managers and peers. We talked about building a repository of web 2.0 learning applications. It turns out that my pal Jane Hart has already done it for us!Jane mined the submissions of her delightful tools database and came u (Read More)
Campus Technology:
According to recent research, more than three-quarters of all bandwidth consumed on campus is actually taken up with applications that fall into the categories of gaming, social networking, media, file sharing, and Web browsing. (Read More)
SitePoint:
At the Edge of the Web conference in Perth last week I got to catch up with Dmitry Baranovskiy, the creator of the Raphaël and gRaphaël JavaScript libraries. Perhaps the most important thing these libraries do is make sophisticated vector graphics possible in Internet Explorer, where JavaScript performance is relatively poo (Read More)
Submitted by Pawoli
from Google Reader:
Photography resources can be found in every corner of the Internet, but not all are created equal. There’s free, expensive, outstanding, terrible, and everything in between when it comes to these websites. Recently, I had the opportunity to explore an outstanding (and moderately priced) subscription website built around e (Read More)
Submitted by Naormark
from Google Reader:
Earlier this year I posted an entry about the lack of women in technology that included some of the famous women who contributed to technology and some of the causes that prevent women from studying fields related to technology or having a career in technology and connected all this to Israel.I’ve been waiting for a good ti (Read More)
Submitted by Pink Lisa
from Google Reader:
Not only are teenagers 17 and younger allowed to watch certain movies, Xbox 360 just banished them from accessing social networks. Strange that the teen demographic that is the target market for Xbox systems are restricted from from the Xbox Live's new integration of Facebook, Twitter and Last.fm. And with Christmas right a (Read More)
The Inquisitr:
The “bleeding-edge” segment of the Internet has gone full-on crazy, so it’s time to give them their medicine… and fast.First of all, let’s make some definitions:“technology” does not include only the Internet“the Internet” does not include only so-called “social networking” sites“groundbreaking” does not include every minor (Read More)
Campus Technology:
Two standards efforts from the IMS Global Learning Consortium gained steam last week during Educause with support announcements coming from a number of high profile vendors, including SunGard Higher Education, Oracle, Jenzabar, Pearson, and Desire2Learn. IMS is a non-profit organization that develops interoperability standa (Read More)
Submitted by Magitam
from Google Reader:
In this issue of Media Literacy Digest, open education advocate George Siemens, takes you to news and stories on emergent media, technology and learning, helping you make good sense of the many changes taking place around you and of how these directly impact your daily lives.Photo credit: Victor HabbickInside this Media Lit (Read More)
The Innovative Educator:
My most popular Facebook status update ever. Over two dozen comments and counting...Lisa Velmer Nielsen Looks like I rubbed off on this school leader who said in our grant eval report-Perhaps you could encourage the Chancellor to remove his ban of cell phone use because it is a good way to have students use (Read More)
Submitted by Catepol
from Google Reader:
At the 140 Character Conference in Los Angeles last month, Parentella hosted a discussion panel with four educators that are in my PLN. During the panel discussion these four educators discussed how Twitter is changing education. The video is embedded below. Thanks to Beth Still for sharing the video.Twitter & Education - # (Read More)
The Chronicle: Wired Campus Blog:
Denver — The face of evil, projected 20 feet tall on a screen behind Lawrence Lessig, belonged to Britney Spears.The face of good belonged to composer John Philip Sousa.Mr. Lessig, the Harvard Law School professor, was giving a keynote address that drew a standing ovation from campus-technology officials at Educause 2009. H (Read More)
The Chronicle: Wired Campus Blog:
Denver-- Continuing education continues to evolve, and e-learning platforms presented here at the Educause conference are vying for attention from universities with promises of enhanced engagement of "lifelong learners" and alumni.Building on Drupal, the open source content management system, a company called GoingOn built (Read More)