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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …