Educause has released their study of Students and Information Technology, 2007. There’s not much startling in this report, which the authors characterize as a detailing of evolution, rather than revolution. More students are using content management systems than ever. More have laptops than ever. Many have complaints about the unhelpfulness of the college help desk,
September’s big question on the Learning Circuits Blog is Where to Work? I think there are fewer questions that are more personal than what working environment is the “best”, so I don’t think I’ll try to generalize, but I will reflect a little on why I enjoy my work. As is obvious from the placement
My friend Bob Watson pointed me to an interesting article this week in Red Orbit by Ashley Heher about the U. S. Intelligence Community’s planned implementation of social networking software to improve cooperation and communication among agents. Heher notes the key features of the new app, dubbed “A-Space”: Aside from simply being able to share
Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach posted a very thorough round-up of current thinking in The Art of Building Virtual Communities over on the TechLearning blog. If you haven’t read it, do. I learned of it from industry veteran Howard Rheingold. I’ve found over the years that when Howard says something is worth checking out, I’ll be sorry to
There’s a bit of a tempest brewing over the behavior of John Mackey, CEO at Whole Foods. Seems Mr. Mackey was a regular on a Yahoo! financial forum, where, under a pseudonym, he talked up his company. He also used that pseud to cast aspersions on Wild Oats, which is a target for acquisition by
The Learning Circuits folks have a new space which they are calling the “Learning Circuits Blog Discussion Wiki.” They introduce it by observing “Here the community can take on topics of interest to the elearning and learning fields. The wiki can afford a longer, more involved dialogue than the somewhat here today, gone tomorrow approach
Josh Catone does a very nice round-up of freely-available collaboration software this week in Rolling Your Own Online Office. Though our xPERT eCampus is a pretty comprehensive online collaboration tool, we at Q2 do use a few of the tools he mentions – email, obviously, but also Google Docs and instant messaging, and some other
I’m becoming a big fan of the commoncraft show, where Lee and Sachi LeFever posts their brilliant introductions to Web 2.0 elements. His low-tech representations of the workings of RSS and most recently, Wikis, using a white board, marker, and cut-outs of screen elements, somehow seem so much friendlier than the screencam approaches we’ve all
Dave Lee is noticing a pervasive, annoying issue for anyone who has advanced from experimenting with social tagging to depending upon it. In de.lic.ious and my folksonomy he complains about how searches of his tags weren’t showing some of his bookmarks, because his personal tagging strategy is inconsistent: in my listing of web 2.0 titles,
Last week, Jay Cross declared something we’ve thought true for a long time: Conversations are a better way to learn than reading blog entries, so I’m remapping my site [to] make it easier to learn from. One of the most active conversations in Jay’s new Ning-based Internet Time Community is “How to start a community?”