I read the call for proposals today and the first thing I did was run over to some of the people that were at my LAN parties last year and said…we’re on! Now just have to come up with what to present and how to present it before June 18th. I encourage everyone to throw your hat in the ring […]
O.K. so I don’t know how to give myself a haircut, but I have an office now in Second Life. Located on the second floor of the C.A.V.E. (Center for Advanced Virtual Education) Thanks to Kevin Jarrett (KJ HAX) for inviting me in and for Doug Johnson (BlueSkunk Johnson) for sharing his office space with me. Sunday morning I woke […]
http://twitku.com/ let’s you post to Twitter and Jaiku at the same time. Not sure how this is different than setting Jaiku up to import your twitter feeds like I’ve already done…but a great way to see everyone on both networks. Twitter ToolboxLet’s you see who you’re friends are, who is following you and who you are following but are not […]
The little experiment of mine called teentek.com just produced its first video podcast. Now some of you might be wondering why this is so amazing to me. I mean we’re 3 1/2 weeks until school’s out and they just now produced their first video podcast? Because the class sees new students every quarter (8 weeks or 20-40 minute classes if […]
Our laptop has been running slower and slower lately and so over the weekend I decided it was time for a reformat. I have found that Window’s machines need one about every two years anyway, and so it was time. Instead of reinstalling Windows XP, I decided I was going to load Linux Ubuntu and Windows XP to dual boot. […]
So techszewski who will be joining our team here next year sent me a link last week that I’m just not getting to. The homepage alone is enough to scare most people: Chat in 3D Avatar mode? MSN Messenger is so Web 1.0 after seeing this. You create an avatar that can chat with these little chat bubbles floating above […]
From George Siemens’ Knowing Knowledge: Change is happening on two levels: …the context in which knowledge occurs, and …the flow and characteristics of knowledge itself. pg. 69 Our society is being restructured to align with knowledge. The barriers, inhibitors, obstacles, and unnecessary structures are giving away to models which permit effective knowledge creating, dissemination, communication, personalization, and flow. pg. 69 […]
I feel sorry really for the 52 people that follow me on Twitter. Sometime Monday our Moodle installation decided that all the users are on a different server and it won’t allow anyone to login. I’ve been twitting it since I started working on the problem 24 hours ago now. It’s been a great outlet for me as I know […]
Man do I ever need this! I spend some time this weekend trying to wrap my head around everything educational that is happening in second life. The more I found, the more I read…the more I felt like life just passed me by. Am I really that far behind? So the SL Best Practices in Education International Conference is set […]
From George Siemens’ Knowing Knowledge: Tools of individuality serve a greater good to society than tools of purely collective traits.pg 56 When we experience knowledge in application, we leave theoretical understanding of knowledge. pg. 56 Our desires and logic are shaped in an orchestra of context: acting and reacting, negotiating and dialoguing. pg. 61 We value what is different more […]