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  • A Couple of Open Courses

    There are quite a few courses now that are open to the world. The first one that I spotted online was George Siemens” course that explored the idea of working/learning/creating beyond the classroom. Today, I spotted another, and this (story, course) one is a little more ambitious – using the RPG framework to create a…

  • Want to watch the Shuttle Land?

    Well you can now on streaming NASA TV.

  • Cram – baby steps into mLearning

    One of the oldest forms of mLearning is the flash card, and now there is an app for the iPhone and the Blackberry that recreates that. Cram seems to be a decent, if simple little app to get moving down the road to mLearning.

  • Now Google makes us smrter

    Way back in May 2007, I posted about a story that I had found that Google was making us dumber (Google Search, The Atlantic). But as with everything in science, if there is one opinion, there are more out there just waiting to jump up. So when I saw this story, I thought… this is…

  • The coolest tools are invisible – are IDers pushing the wrong edge?

    One of the things that I had a chance to do while I was recovering over the first couple weeks after surgery was to hunt down books on Amazon. One of them was Clay Shirky’s book “Here Comes Everybody“. I don’t remember how I came across this, but I remembered that it hit me as…