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- [survey] Social Media: Beyond adoptionOctober 8
- Are we truly past the adoption stage? What are the most significant barriers to adoption? What are the most critical “need to knows” with social media (in your organisation)? These are a few of the questions I’m asking my social media savvy networks and visitors to my blog in my most recent survey: Social Media: Beyond adoption After many [...]
- Federal Election 2008: Where’s education?September 22
- Oversized classes, missing resources, under-staffing and a crisis of educational significance are just a few of the problems facing educators and students today. Is education working? Relevant? Meaningful? Ask for a show of hands and you’ll hear plenty of anger from students, teachers, parents and everybody else about what’s not working. You’d think education would be [...]
- Howard Rheingold unveils Social Media ClassroomAugust 25
- I, along with many other educators, have been eagerly awaiting news of Howard Rheingold’s radical new social media / virtual communities course at Stanford. What makes this course so different is the focus. Instead of stand and deliver lecture format, Rheingold’s students will direct their own learning through student-led inquiry and cooperative projects: “Within less than [...]
- Lively: Google gone wildJuly 13
- My avatar and my private Lively room Next to iPhone mania, Google’s Lively generated the greatest amount of buzz in my little corner of the social media universe this weekend. I got my first view via friends Flickr galleries, which conveyed a lot about their apparent demographic. In a nutshell, Lively is a virtual world - similar [...]
- Edusurfing with PMOGJune 14
- This is PMOG, an online game that allows you to earn data points, level up and create thematic “missions” from your web surfing. You can also create portals from one page to another or drop some loot or a mine on a page for another PMOG player to discover. All you need is a [...]