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Media Literacy: Making Sense Of New Technologies And Media by George Siemens - Nov 22 08Today

As more and more students begin to attend online courses, is the educational system well aware of the potential of outside-the-classroom approaches in learning? George Siemens - Photo credit: Injenuity The abundance and consequent fragmentation of information gives increasing opportunity to specialized forms of education that more effectively address personal contexts and individual needs rather than the usual pre-packaged, dogmatic, teaching-like approaches. Educational technology expert George Siemens suggests that, online learning, homeschooling, and PLE (Personal Learning Environments), are just some of the new alternative choices learners are increasingly considering when interested in learning outside of the traditional classroom. Here all the details:

eLearning Resources and News

learning, networks, knowledge, technology, trends by George Siemens

Need Help.

I often hear educators talking about “education needs to change” (I do it too). This is the case for the K-12, higher education, and corporate training / education markets. As a small research project, I’d like to ask people to answer the following questions (on their blog, in YouTube, Seesmic, or wherever):

• Does education need to change?
• Why or why not?
• If it should change, what should it become? How should education (k-12, higher, or corporate) look like in the future?

E-Learn 2008

I don’t like Powerpoint a whole lot. We don’t really have a good alternative for presentations. I’ve been experimenting with different approaches. Most recent is PersonalBrain, which I used for my presentation at E-Learn 2008 in Vegas today.

Moving to Neutral Tools and Applications

From Communication Consultant To Independent Media Publisher: My Reasons For Moving From Secure Work To Risky Blogging - Robin Good VideoNovember 20

Why, after having worked for many years for several large international organizations did I decide to jump into the online independent publishing frenzy and make it my full-time activity? In this short video, I share with you the basic reasons and motivations that have led me to seriously consider abandoning my well paid corporate communication consultant job and to start an independent web publishing career. What were the reasons and triggers that sparked my decision?

Why Did I Leave My Former Job To Become An Online Independent Publisher

Duration: 6'
Full English Text Transcription

Hi, this is Robin Good for

MasterNewMedia, and I am going to answer one more of your questions. This one today reads: "With your background in... corporate marketing - well... I didn't know I had a background in corporate marketing - when did you first decide to become a web publisher... what went through your head when you were decideing to leave your cushy executive job for this endeavor... an endeavor that was fraught with uncertainty?"

Working for Security or Working for Satisfaction - That Is The Question

Well good question anyhow. I wasn't an executive corporat

Browser Compatibility Testing: Cross-Platform Cross-Browser Multiple Resolutions Compatibility Testing Tools - Sharewood GuideNovember 19

To check the compatibility of your site across different browsers, operating systems, or screen resolutions there are a handful of little known tools which professional webmasters keep secretly inside their toolkits. I have gone out to find out what these are. Photo credit: BrowserCam edited by Daniele Bazzano As you probably know, you cannot take for granted how your web site will be displayed when called up on a computer running a different operating system than yours. In fact, there are at least three main issues that affect the way your web pages are displayed on other people screens:

• The browser (Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, etc) and the specific version your viewers use
• The operating system (Mac, Windows, Linux) your viewers run on their machines.
• The screen resolution your viewers have set on their monitors.

To make this straight, a page rendered in Firefox 2 on a Windows machine probably won't look the same when opened again in Firefox 3 on a Mac. This is why as an online publisher you have to go out of your way to make sure your site displays almost identically across different browsers, operating systems and screen resolutions. But how can you test such a broad variety of possible

Content Monetization: Fighting Unlicensed Content Republication Via Distribution Networks And Ad SharingNovember 18

As content can be copied indefinitely and distributed instantaneously across the web, web publishers need to cooperate and partner with their peers to create free content distribution networks - collections of blogs and web sites where they can freely syndicate and republish their original content. Why? Photo credit: simonkr and Max Gladwell mashed up by Daniele Bazzano In the rapidly changing online publishing landscape that exists today, the old mantra "If you can't beat 'em... join 'em" seems to ring truer than ever. Publishers, large and small, have long tried to find effective ways to fight against those who re-use and re-publish their content without permission. But finding site editors, webmasters who hide under a barrage of protective layers, takes lots of time and it is often as ineffective as sending out DMCA or takedown notices. Smart web publishers are beginning to realize how ineffective and time-consuming is to continue to send these draconian cease-and-desist letters to those republishing their content, especially if they want to survive and thrive in the future. This problem is not l

MasterNewMedia Joins The Federated Media Advertising Network: John Battelle VideoNovember 17

As passion, integrity and authority are among some of the key selection criteria used, it is with great pride that I can officially announce that MasterNewMedia has become part of the Federated Media Publishing and advertising network. Federated Media, headed by John Battelle is the premiere online advertising agency for author-driven sites and the pragmatical avant-garde of conversational marketing made reality. The Federated Media network is a fantastic ring of independent, author-driven blogs and sites - such as TechCrunch, Digg, Search Engine Land, GigaOM, ReadWriteWeb, Mashable, Boing Boing and many other great ones. "An FM site has influence not because its author is well known, but because the author has earned the trust of an influential community." And this is why I am so happy to make this announcement: as John Battelle mentions in the short video here below, MasterNewMedia has been selected among 4000 sites that have applied in the last year to become part of the FM network. MasterNewMedia is also among the elite group of four sites not based in the US (only another one is