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  • Yahoo Pipes – intro to connectivism

    I picked this up from Google News and then from Searchblog – Yahoo Pipes (seems very slow right now). Like the others that are buzzing about this, I think it’s going to be a real groundbreaker – but not for the average user, but for the students and researchers. My take on it is of…

  • PBL – a couple of interesting articles

    It seems that a few people have been thinking about PBL today. The first one that came across my inbox was Tomorrow’s Professor’s post and the second was from Spiral Notebook. PBL came up yesterday in a meeting that I was in as we were talking about how the process is far more important than…

  • Tagging, the gateway to Web3.0, should we treat it like a drug?

    I noticed something interesting while getting Aperture up and running last night. While I was setting up all my tags, I realized that I now all of the sudden had an increased motivation to take a wider array of pictures. Why? Before, using iPhoto and it’s rather cloistered tagging system, I really only put tags…

  • The Memory Card that … just didn’t try hard enough

    A few months ago, I wrote about trusting brand name cards and I also mentioned (after returning from Mexico) that pro cards like SanDisk’s Extreme series certainly live up to their billing being able to shoot from the 40+ degrees C in Mexico to the – 25 that I shot in this Christmas. And while…

  • Games, Games, Games

    Gaming is certainly starting to become a factor when people are thinking about education. Serious games as a resource are starting to poke into the vocabulary of admins and there are conferences (like GLS in July put on by UW – Madison that also has a gaming minor in it’s education program). But this morning,…