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I can't believe it! Here is is midway through week 4 and I am just making my first post here. I think it is basically because I have been posting to my other blogs about what I am doing for this session -- not that I am doing all that much! This is, for me, one of the difficulties with EVO sessions -- I feel torn about where I post what. I have one blog that I post to regularly (except during EVO sessions!) that I started for EVO 2005. I have… Continue

Then I read the Nicholas Carr article Is Google Making Us Stupid?, and found much in there to detain me. So I've started on a couple of posts: To skim or not to skim is the first. There's more in the pipeline on writing styles and reading skills, whether it's all Google's fault anyway, and the QuaSaR model (if I don't bin it first). This may take some time -… Continue

I think I've just about caught up with Week 2 - I've watched the Weinberger vs Keen slugfest, and read the Folksonomies article. They both set me thinking - a pretty time-consuming process in my case - and I've put a couple of posts up on my Daily Post blog: Cult or Culture?, and Snowdrop or snowdrops?. Please feel free to comment on them. For i… Continue

I haven't even finished watching this video on Week 2 seminal viewing (sorry I'm a bit behind), and I already hate this guy! What is it with Mr. Keen? Does he resent that the "traditional western authority" is being challenged? To me it seems like what he doesn't like about the internet is that it's making the world "flat" and the people who have the "power" to feed the masses the horrible mass media we have today full of reality TV shows and forensic series (don't get mad at me i like CSI too b… Continue

Hello everybody! I've had problems with my Inet connection and couldn't comment on anything in the way I would have liked: in order. So far I have already watched Dr Welch videolecture- yes, I do agree with all the partcipants here, amazing lecturer, amazing teacher. I have taken a few notes from his wise recommendations and IMHO, there are two central issues that I'd rather quote: 1. STUDENTS LEARN WHAT THEY CARE ABOUT, FROM PEOPLE THEY CARE ABOUT, AND WHO, THEY KNOW, CARE ABOUT THEM.… Continue

Folders are out, tags are in...what does it mean? Change our mental structure from linear to spider web type of thinking. Information on paper was a "thing", that had a specific place in the world...encyclopedias vs. magazines? Importance of information depended on the type of media used..how about now? how do we know? Information's importance is no longer tied to how much power/material power the content producer has... "Nobody knows as much as everybody"...what a blow for teachers who use kn… Continue

It just dawned on me when I was looking at Ms. Cofino's fantastic and apparently infinite resources on her blog, wiki, and portfolio, that I couldn't figure out how to tag those pages on my bookmars so that I will remember to go back and read about her later in more detail...She's one of those people you read about and say "I wish I could be more like her"...and then I had it: digital.rolemodel. I have a handful of pages I always go back to because the people who are behind them are just SO good… Continue

Here's my first blog post. I'll try to keep track of the the day-by-day progress and my impressions here. I also want to have a "clean copy" of the best things I learn, and I'll add them to my website. I am also considering opening a Diggo acount. I have been using Delicious for my personal and professional bookmarks, but it's getting more and more difficult to decide what to add as public, and also I don't like it when I forget to tag some… Continue