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A little humor to start off the work week!

Tuesday I was lucky enough to be a guest on the Women of Web 2.0 podcast. Here’s a link to the conversation, both audio and text chat.
I gotta admit, I was trying to focus in on the conversation and completely missed the text chat during the bulk of the podcast! So I was […]

In the continuing saga of The World is Really Really flat, I checked out WizIQ today. Basically it’s a Web2.0 tutoring service. I’ve seen these before, and there are others that were much more impressive from a user interface perspective. But WizIQ caught my eye for a reason that really had nothing […]

How many versions of this video have there been? Supposedly this is the final version, and once again its tearing up the YouTube charts. Anybody have any idea what’s different this time?
While I’ve never been a big fan of versioning (allowing for a .1, .2, 1.5 release etc), but this seems like a […]

Well, I wasn’t going to mention this beyond a tweet, but what the heck. Blogger’s Choice Awards are going on right now, and yes they do have an education category. What I like about this awards site is that you can vote for more than one weblog. And since you need to […]

Dean Shareski has got a great way to explain the whole “professional development via RSS” idea.
I’ve recently assembled a team of researchers who go out on a daily basis and find out what’s happening in the world of digital learning and education in general. This team is comprised of teachers, consultants and experts […]

I really think that Teach42 needs a new theme, and am loathing the project. I’m just not all that good at making things pretty! I know I want to keep the general logo that a friend of mine created, but besides that I’m pretty open. So open, that I’m going to open […]

I remember back in my glory days at the University of Iowa, when I was getting my bachelor’s in Elementary Education, I only had to take one technology class. The final project was to send and receive email. No, I’m not joking. As you might be able to guess, I already knew how […]

Over the years I’ve gotten some really touching emails from people who have told me how much they enjoyed reading this blog, listening to the podcasts and seeing me speak. I truly can’t express just how much those have meant to me.
And if I were a SMART person, I would have kept those emails, […]

I’m in the middle of putting the finishing touches on a presentation that I’ll be doing on Wednesday afternoon about integrating widgets into unitedstreaming’s assignment builder and quiz builder. It occurred to me that like many of my other presentations, it will probably be almost completely worthless on its own. I always have […]

D’Arcy Norman posted
The solution to every problem doesn’t have to involve “Hey! Let’s design and build some cool new software!” - more often than not, especially in the last year or two, it should be more of “Hey! Let’s use these existing apps in new ways!”
To which Stephen Downes responded
But if the point is (and […]

So long as I’m on a movie kick, got another to share with you.
Love this video I found through Miguel:

It’s an issue that I talk about during my permanent record presentation. It’s not that students shouldn’t post photos online. I do it, my friends do it, millions of people do it every day. […]

I posted this on Digital Passports already, but realized that this is one of those things that deserves the cross post.
No commentary needed. Just watch it.

How many feeds do you have? I’m not asking how many you subscribe to, rather how many do you own? Do you have a blog or two? A del.icio.us account? Have you posted a YouTube video? Do you have a podcast? Share photos on Flickr? All of these […]

More often than not, I stear clear of browser bars. Between all my bookmarklets and two or three rows of open tabs, I consider my remaining browser real estate is pretty sacred to me. So as nifty as the Google and Yahoo browser bars may be, I avoid them entirely.
However, I’ve seen many […]