I have just returned from the mLearn 2011 Conference in Beijing, China, which focuses, not surprisingly, on mobile and ubiquitous learning (anywhere, anytime, all the time). Some good sessions and …
Blog content distribution as social literacy: repurposing/distribution across learning communities (#Change11)
See the full gallery on Posterous I was reading a chapter called Looking from the Inside In: Academic Blogging as New Literacy by Julia Davies and Guy Merchant from the …
Kiva Visualization: 5 years of fluid funding; social interaction, trust
Nothing much by way of explanation, but just a fantastic visualization of Kiva lending and repayment over the last five years (taken from this blog). This was recommended to me …
Networks and connections as mooring and celestial navigation: motivation
As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss. -Noam Chomsky I have been posting quite a bit …
My wife, Skype, love, and acclimating ahead of time (and just a bit of #mlearning)
Up until only recently, I had never thought of Skype as being social media. Now that I think about it, that seems absurd. It is perhaps the most social of …
Reflective space, or the merits of social detachment (Michael+ as Google-)
Something struck me just a moment ago as I was furiously scrambling between tabs and Google Analytics to check usage of one of the umpteen sites I seem to be …
Catfish, Social Network and Artistic Representations of Digital Culture
There are two films coming out soon that seem to be some of the initial attempts to create narratives specifically from social media, namely the culture that exists within social …