Is TED Dead? Should it be?

Approximate Reading Time: 6 minutesAgainst TED – The New Inquiry. (By Nathan Jurgenson ) It’s curious that this should pop up now. The article is not new (Feb. 2012) but it crosses my path just when I was beginning to think that TED talks … Continue reading

The End-User View of Technology – Not Good Enough

Approximate Reading Time: 2 minutesSadly, this is the POV (point of view = perspective) that most teachers have. I don’t blame them – it’s not really their fault. On the other hand, the professors who teach them should know better. Them I do blame. … Continue reading

Future Work Skills 2020 ~ repost from Stephen’s Web

Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteA well-written report from The Apollo Research Institute Thanks to Stephen for bringing this to our attention (again). Future Work Skills 2020 ~ Stephen’s Web. Here’s a direct link to the report.   Be the first to like. Like Unlike … Continue reading

How Do You Evaluate and Assess Media for Instruction?

Approximate Reading Time: 3 minutesThis question was asked on one of the LinkedIn groups (AECT: Association for Educational Communications and Technology) I belong to. It got me thinking…. I decided to move my part of the conversation here because the notion interests me. Here’s … Continue reading

Democratizing Programming

Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteJust came across a great quote by Chris Crawford…. “What we need is a means of democratizing programming, of taking it out of the soulless hands of the programmers and putting it into the hands of a wider range of … Continue reading

Blame the messenger: Why Do People Think the problem is PowerPoint?

Approximate Reading Time: 2 minutesWhat would you rather do than sit through a PowerPoint presentation? – National presentation skills | Examiner.com. It seems that blaming PowerPoint for boring or outright bad presentations is still popular. That’s bad enough. What’s worse, is that people think … Continue reading

A Dying Squirrel

Approximate Reading Time: 2 minutesI’ve been worried about this for a while now. A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook YouTube – ?What Google and Facebook … Continue reading

Does everything really need gamification?

Approximate Reading Time: 2 minutesGamification Summit 2011 San Francisco. This seems to be the hot, hot, hot topic these days. There are conferences, books, and companies jumping on the bandwagon to bring you apps and more that can help you gamify your web space, … Continue reading