How Africa Tweets and Implications for Academic Research
I was recently reading the report entitled How Africa Tweets from the Portland Communications, which can be downloaded here. It is a very ambitious effort with both quantitative and qualitative segments that provides some rich data. In 2011, Portland and Tweetminster conducted a study to see how Twitter was being used on the African continent. […]
Taking stock of social media: lessons learned from a botanical database
The last post I wrote on the use of DISQUS for crowdsourcing academic data has led my wandering brain to this one, a post taking stock of close to two years’ worth of effort in social media. What I did do that worked; what I didn’t do that worked. What I did do that didn’t […]
Augmented Twitter presentation as inspiration for augmented cultural heritage and participatory design
I really, really enjoyed this presentation given by Jeff Pulvers at the 140Characters Conference recently. I will let you ponder this one for a second as it will be part of the inspiration for my next few posts on my vision for augmented cultural heritage (not necessarily as fancy hovering 3D images), an augmented heritage […]
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 social media in that it allows for fluid and easy exchanges between individuals, perhaps with a less widely construed net than Twitter (shouting into the […]
Open Badges and the Impact of Potential Employees
Based on some feedback I am getting on this post on Open Badges and Rewarding Learning Online, I got to thinking a bit more on how this could be expanded/revisited to suit the professional sector. Quick review: Open Badges is a Mozilla and Peer 2 Peer University project for awarding badges (like a Facebook or […]
Curation, reduction, and haiku: less is more and the art of disciplined destruction
See the full gallery on Posterous I was thinking a bit on short-form writing as a means of curation, well specifically about Twitter as an exercise in curation. There is a lot of evidence to suggest that curation is an expression of learning and knowledge construction. That we shape our systems, our knowledge constructs, and […]
Complexity, learner as cobbler, or why I love mash-ups
Just finished making my way through The Future of Learning from Steve Wheeler on Slideshare (see below) and thought it an excellent overview of the trends in learning overall and some possible technological advancements that could contribute to those trends. Very good and worth a look. Wheeler is Associate Professor of Education at the University […]