I regularly read Guy Kawasaki’s “How to Change the World” blog. It’s an interesting read because Guy looks at ideas from an entreprenurial aspect – something that is mentioned in our new curriculum documents but we as educators often shun for its dirty connotations. Actually I think I first discovered Guy through his work on [...]
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CAUTION: This post contains some very mixed up metaphors. Neowin: One might still ask, what is Web 2.0? It is something better described by marketing than by reality. Somebody (O’Reilly Media actually) decided that as of 2004, the internet had entered the second revolution where Google and other online mainstays replaced the original tools of the first [...] TradeMe has just announced a new entrant into the field of online maps. Smaps seems to be put together by the same people who developed (my current fave) Zoomin maps, Projectx Technology. We’re starting to be spoiled for choice with AAMaps and Google Maps. And ye olde (in the NZ scene) Wises Online maps. One thing [...] An online wordprocessor has quietly been released! This idea has been around a little while but finally this week it’s a reality. ajaxWrite works inside the Firefox browser (on versions 1.5 up). It has a range of features and allows users to save their work back to their computer. The software is platform independent, which means [...] Miguel Guhlin asks: Read/Write web tools promise a lot, but why aren’t people adopting them? If problem-based learning is so great, and information literacy and problem-solving approaches (like Big6), are so powerful…so obvious…why aren’t more using them? We continue to see pockets of innovation but no wide-spread success. Blogs enable us to stay in touch, to [...] Up on Memeorandum at the moment (on the tech side)- a pointer to a discussion about the gatekeepers of the new media. This is an interesting subject and one that I’ve been considering from the educational angle. While the techie-boys (and unfortunately they are mainly young males) go on and one about the imminent bursting of [...] |
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