A unique opportunity for IMD students (and others) is the WordCamp Dallas event to be held in Frisco Saturday, March 29 – Sunday, March 30, 2008. WordCamp is an informal gathering of WordPress users where they “teach, learn, eat, drink and generally have fun with one another.” There have been dozens of these events throughout [...]
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WordCamp Dallas 2008
Posted in Learning things on January 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Fall 07 Class URL’s
Posted in Learning things on December 15, 2007 | 2 Comments »
The greatest expectation for this class is that you will continue to be in community with each other and to try and grow your community to include others in the program. You can do much just by keeping in touch with each other, as to collaborative process generates “distributed intellect” – a term used to [...]
Interesting places, tools, and videos
Posted in Learning things on November 26, 2007 | 1 Comment »
This is a copy of an article I wrote in February 07 about mashup software applications. While the technology is a little sophisticated, you can learn how to do some powerful combining of things like RSS subscriptions and a variety of searching functions. Not for the faint of heart but important tools for you [...]
Networks and connections
Posted in Learning things, tagged connectivist, networked on October 13, 2007 | 3 Comments »
From the information age to the connected age: “The Information Age is the age of the knowledge worker. The Connected Age is the age of the web worker. Knowledge workers create and manage information, massaging it into intangible knowledge goods. Web workers create and manage relationships across knowledge goods, hardware, and people”.
This is an interesting [...]
Personal Portals
Posted in Learning things on September 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Everyone in class is familiar with Netvibes as a personal portal. Some learners were having difficulty with Netvibes and certain browsers, so I promised a list of similar products for those of you interested in the concept of a portal, but not entirely well served by Netvibes.
The leading “competition” in my review would be the [...]
Screencasting and other activities
Posted in Learning things on August 28, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Sometimes a repeat article in more than one of my blogs is appropriate, so here is a duplicate of todays post in Webstuff2.
Leigh Blackall’s “What to Do” provides a group of instructional videos that engage you in some activities that will add to your PLE tool chest. I believe that as we experience new digital [...]
