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  • Pattern Seeking Instead of Content Delivery

    Angela Maiers writes, "I talk a lot about lessons planning focused on Pattern Seeking and Meaning Making Instead of Content Delivery. One of our challenges is that we come to the lesson planning table as teachers instead of readers. By doing that, our own proficiency becomes our deficiency. This video," [...]
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    Posted: December 07, 2009, 3:45pm EST

  • Yahoo's Newest Strategy: Lots and Lots of Facebook

    The future of OpenID is not less certain as Facebook has partnered with Yahoo to push its Facebook Connect signon service. This will probably be the thing that ends my use of Flickr, which is owned by Yahoo. As Webmonkey's Michael Calore writes, "Yahoo stated in a blog post" [...]
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    Posted: December 07, 2009, 3:29pm EST

  • Sakai Blogging

    Michael Feldstein is now on the Sakai Foundation Board and Product Council, which I think is a good thing, as he writes of his intention "to use e-Literate as a platform for increased transparency into the Sakai community." We could use more of this from all of these organizations and [...]
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    Posted: December 07, 2009, 3:24pm EST

  • Underneath Pearson's Poptropica

    Good review of Pearson's Poptripoca, "the virtual world that is the new black for pre-schoolers and primary age explorers." While Peason has been foscused in the mainstream on course manuals and books, experiments like this look at was to commercialize other aspects of education - such as this game that [...]
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    Posted: December 07, 2009, 3:21pm EST

  • Collaborating with the C level

    The 'C level' refers to people with 'Chief' in their job title. In the traditional analysis, "The person in the position functions as a charismatic leader who's personality plays a large part in their impact. While subordinates manage up with servility, compliance and gratuitous respect, there is a notable neglect" [...]
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    Posted: December 07, 2009, 3:11pm EST

  • Reflections on On-line Educa Berlin

    This seems right: "Probably the biggest trend is the movement away from a focus on VLEs towards looking at the use of social software for learning." And this: "YouTube is developing into a kind of University of the Grassroots. Instead of learning being a top-down process, dictated by institutions and" [...]
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    Posted: December 07, 2009, 3:03pm EST

  • The Golden Triangle of Tech Applies to eLearning Solutions too!

    The golden triangle - mobile, social and real-time - does seem to cut to the heart of developments in new technology. And, as statements of trends (rather than essential features, inherent natures, or some other mantra infused with metaphysics) the three main points of the triangle are accurate. I still [...]
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    Posted: December 07, 2009, 2:57pm EST

  • 21st-Century Skills: Education Reform or Marketing Ploy?

    The Education Week article suggesting "21st century skills" constitute a marketing ploy is available only to paying subscribers. This is a blog summary of the article (ironically, also from Education Week; for an explanation of this apparent anomaly see the description of 'projection', below). For myself, I can't think of' [...]
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    Posted: December 07, 2009, 2:46pm EST

  • Record industry faces liability over infringement

    One phenomenon in politics and business I've learned I can count on is projection. The concept of 'projection' is originally derived from Freudian psychology and is essentially the act of seeing in others faults that you actually possess yourself. Thus, for example, a person likely to steal accuses all other' [...]
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    Posted: December 07, 2009, 2:20pm EST

  • Google DNS

    So I've switched the home office over to Google DNS, which will end the "can't find Google" problem on Rogers and will, as a side-benefit, greatly increase lookup speeds (which, on Rogers, are terrible, at least for uncached addressed, which usually time out before they are found (requiring that the [...]
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    Posted: December 07, 2009, 8:11am EST

  • Chumby is your friend!


    I'm not sure yet that these actually exist. But the site seems legit. And I'm not sure they're really so amazing. After all, they're simply devices that play widgets. Widgets that are alarm clocks. Widgets that are weather reports. Widgets that are web radio. But the more I [...]
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    Posted: December 04, 2009, 1:54pm EST

  • Use QR Code to Share Your Site to the World!

    So I created a QR code for my site. Because this

    is so much easier to understand than: [www.downes.ca]
    (yes, that's sarcasm. Because I still don't see the benefit of obfuscating easy-to-read text). Zaid Ali Alsagoff, ZaidSwoosh, December 4, 2009 [Tags: none] [Link] [Comment] ' [...]
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    Posted: December 04, 2009, 1:48pm EST

  • CSI Twitter- Crime Scene Investigation

    I don't really like shows like CSI but one thing I do appreciate is that they foster a sense of scientific enquiry in viewers (so do MythBusters and Survivorman, which are much better examples of television). This is a great example of the impact, as schoolchildren analyze a skeleton -' [...]
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    Posted: December 04, 2009, 1:40pm EST

  • More archival images shared by Flickr


    Bryan Alexander reports, "The Library and Archives Canada (Bibliothèque et Archives Canada) Webbed up "a selection of digital images related to Canadian documentary heritage" through Flickr." Love the airplane; Canada has a great aviation history that is unknown to most people. Bryan Alexander, Liberal Education Today, December [...]
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    Posted: December 04, 2009, 1:25pm EST

  • Rhee wants to sell off closed D.C. schools to condo developers

    The funny thing about this is that the local newspaper has recommended selling off a (historic) local school and turning it into condominiums. And I don't believe in coincidences. "Either way, whether public space is turned over to private charter operating companies or to condo/hotel developers, the real losers are'" [...]
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    Posted: December 04, 2009, 1:18pm EST

  • Oscar winning e-learning guru urges trainers to take another look at video

    Yes, I know, David Puttnam has never been mentioned in these pages before. He is a well known film producer (and made many of my favorites, including Bugsy Malone, Midnight Express, Chariots of Fire, Local Hero, The Killing Fields and The Mission) and is a member of the British House [...]
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    Posted: December 04, 2009, 12:34pm EST

  • Hailey Hacks lolcats

    Pretty prefessional video for someone so young. No matter, if you want to learn how to create a LOLCat, this video will show you how. Thanks to Brenda Sherry for the email. HaileyHacks, YouTube, December 4, 2009 [Tags: Video] [Link] [Comment] [...]
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    Posted: December 04, 2009, 12:25pm EST

  • Google Launches Public DNS to Speed Up Web

    I didn't know about this before I wrote about the great Rogers Google-DNS fail but there is certainly a fill of irony to this item. "Google announced Google Public DNS on Thursday, a new means by which users can utilize the Google DNS servers to access the Internet.... Users'" [...]
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    Posted: December 04, 2009, 12:12pm EST

  • Documents from The Internet as Playground and Factory

    Now this is how you do a conference. I'm been following the discussion on the iDC list for the last six months (albeit not closely). Now the conference has come and gone and an amazing array of resources has been left behind. Trebor Scholz, iDC, December 4, 2009 [Tags: none]' [...]
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    Posted: December 04, 2009, 12:00pm EST

  • ReadTwit and GReader - two great tastes that taste great together

    I don't think I've ever heard it called 'GReader' (and it has become very annoying since tacking on utm= link spam on all its links) but Google Reader is a great mix with twitter, as Scott Leslie says, and is my primary means of keeping up with Twitter chat (I [...]
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    Posted: December 03, 2009, 2:45pm EST

  • Why Business Leaders Should Not Be in the Driver's Seat

    My 'anti-corporate bias' is well known. But, I must say, it has good pedigree. "What we now hear from our business leaders is that the schools must be redesigned to function like business. They conveniently overlook the fact that business practices and the ruthless pursuit of a competitive edge nearly" [...]
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    Posted: December 03, 2009, 2:39pm EST

  • Pondering a rogue cloud; Will platform providers cave to business, government interests?

    Is the cloud, asks Jonathon Zittrain, really the backbone of the future we want? Cloud computing exposes us to fraud and hackers, it trades away our privacy, and it puts us into the hands of providers who can change our content, tell us what apps are good for us, and [...]
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    Posted: December 03, 2009, 1:50am EST

  • The Curmudgeon's Manifesto


    As they say: I've worked very hard to qualify as a curmudgeon, I deserve it, I have the website to prove it, and I'm going to be one, "a crusty irascible cantankerous old person full of stubborn ideas." Can't be any worse than being an edupunk. Anyhow,' [...]
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    Posted: December 03, 2009, 1:29am EST

  • Learning4Content

    Can't beat this: "Nellie Deutsch and Gladys Gahona would like to invite you to a free 5-day e-learning professional development workshop for educators who want to learn how to use WikiEducator and Moodle to share online content with students, create and facilitate online workshops, and collaborate online with their students'" [...]
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    Posted: December 03, 2009, 1:05am EST

  • Sagrada Familia, Barcelona


    I'm in Barcelona for two conferences; I gave a talk at one yesterday and I dive the second tomorrow. The hotel internet has had some hiccups and may again so don't be too surprised by an interruption in service. Anyhow, I think you'll enjoy this set' [...]
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    Posted: December 02, 2009, 1:48pm EST

  • Bad Backchannel: My Take on Danah Boyd's Bad Day

    Oh, I need to make this point, because pople will believe, like Vicki Davis, that "All presentation backchannels should have moderators." The thing is, you can't moderate backchannels. You can control what's displayed on the big screen, if you want (and if your audience is squeamish, you may want to).' [...]
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    Posted: December 02, 2009, 1:40pm EST

  • Media Literacy for Google Fundamentalists

    The Great Google Outage continues in my home in Moncton, as the Rogers Internet DNS service cannot seem to find the internet search site (or any of its affiliates, such as Blogger). I'm going to put the entire household on OpenDNS when I get home, but in the meantime,' [...]
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    Posted: December 02, 2009, 1:21pm EST

  • How do knowledge workers work?

    So how does distributed cognition apply to corporate learning. Gina Minks works out the implications. "Maybe some of it goes back to information-seeking behavior. Techies have their own language, history, culture. We have our own distributed memory, our own languages that invoke that memory. If a n00b doesn't have the'" [...]
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    Posted: December 02, 2009, 1:06pm EST

  • JISC launches 2010-2012 strategy

    JISC, which has played such an important role in the development of online learning over the last few years, has released its strategy for 2010-2012. "Focus will be given to online learning, management information systems, cloud computing, innovation and impact." There's a video with reactions. Press Releasse, JISC, December 2, [...]
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    Posted: December 02, 2009, 1:00pm EST

  • Edutopia Welcome Lounge

    Edutopia has launched an online community for teachers, featuring groups, blogs, and message areas. 236 members as of this writing, so it looks like it's off the ground. The RSS feeds aren't working properly(this feed for example doesn't render in Google Reader), and what would really be nice would [...]
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    Posted: December 02, 2009, 12:53pm EST

  • TwHistory

    Serialized Twitter feeds created by students. Very nice. Presented by Marion Jensen and Tom Caswell at the UOC UNESCO Chair conference. Marion Jensen and Tom Caswell, Website, November 30, 2009 [Tags: UNESCO, Twitter] [Link] [Comment] [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 10:16am EST

  • SAPO Campus session at the UNESCO OSL Seminar

    SAPO Campus: a set of aggregation services integrated in a platform, an institutionally supported PLE. The PLE is built up from widgets connected to various services. Luis Pedro and Carlos Santos, Website, November 30, 2009 [Tags: UNESCO] [Link] [Comment] [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 9:21am EST

  • igovt Identity Verification Service

    Federated identity, New Zealand style. "The igovt logon service was formerly known as the Government Logon Service (GLS). It is shared service providing enhanced security for logon management of online services provided by participating service providers. It enables people to use the same logon to access a number of online" [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 8:20am EST

  • Open Society Initiative for West Africa

    From the discussions at the UNECSO Chair conference here in Barcelona - newsletter, reports, conference, special initiatives. Related: open online course, Emerging tech Africa, on Wikiversity. Various Authors, Website, November 30, 2009 [Tags: Traditional and Online Courses, Newsletters, Africa, Wikiversity] [Link] [Comment] [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 7:32am EST

  • SocialLearn

    Not much to see yet, but we heard today from Joel Greenberg from Open University about this project, which looks and feels in the planning stage a lot like what we're looking at doing in our own PLE Project. The groundswell of change that will rock the LMS world' [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 7:21am EST

  • Participation. Un colectivo, muchos recorridos A collective, many routes

    English translation of a Spanish project from Argentina, presented today at #eLChair09 by Alejandro Piccitelli from Argentina. Alejandro Piccitelli, Facebook Project, November 30, 2009 [Tags: Project Based Learning] [Link] [Comment] [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 4:11am EST

  • Canada's TV tax / Save local TV squabble explained

    I love this summary and video (which, btw, is accurate): "Both groups receive enormous subsidies to promote Canadian television (broadcasters get a 'local programming fee' and cable/sat operators get a state-backed monopoly that keeps foreigners out). Both want more money, and both want the other guy to collect the" [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2009, 3:03pm EST

  • Ulrike Reinhard Interview: The Web And The Post-Everything Economy

    Stowe Boyd shares the video of his interview with Ulrike Reinhard (she also interviewed me a few weeks ago in Toronto). "It runs an hour, and touches on the web from a variety of angles. I touch on 'The Post-Everything Economy', 'What Is The Web Good For', and some thoughts" [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2009, 2:59pm EST

  • Social Networking: Rethinking Productivity

    Nice paper looking at the benefits and negatives of social networking. An interesting negative is 'social resistance to change': "Active social networking opens you up to being heavily influenced by others. In a way it subjects you to a new form of social conditioning. Once your network knows you a" [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2009, 2:57pm EST

  • A Reminder

    OK, now, just a thought. This item concerns a report of a virus that wipes out data on 'jailbroken' Apple iPhones (that is, iPhones that have been unlocked to allow applications from outside Apple's App Store to be installed). Now, let me ask, of all the people in the [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2009, 2:49pm EST

  • Terms of Use

    Doug Peterson asks, "What are the implications of these terms and from other websites for those in education?" Well, let me answer. Here are the terms of use for OLDaily: by reading this website, you agree to reduce your carbon emissions by one half by 2020, you agree to support [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2009, 2:42pm EST

  • On connectivism

    Leigh Blackall: "There has been a long and [barren] relationship between education and popular culture for over a century now. Education has been absent from reality for as long as I've been a part of it and today is no different - even when Social Media has direct associations to'" [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2009, 2:36pm EST

  • GoogleAppsEd5


    Interesting presentation of Google Apps as e-portfolio from electronicportfolios.org. Via Tex2All. Helen Barrett, electronicportfolios.org, November 27, 2009 [Tags: Google, E-Portfolios] [Link] [Comment] [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2009, 2:28pm EST

  • Picasso's Guernica in 3D

    What interests me here is that in order to present this 3D version of the painting, it is necessary to use video and movement. Guernica is, o course, as powerful as ever. John Connell, Weblog, November 27, 2009 [Tags: Video] [Link] [Comment] [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2009, 2:24pm EST

  • Video recording: Learning 2020

    Video recording o George Siemens's talk in Oslo. George Siemens, elearnspace, November 27, 2009 [Tags: Connectivism, Video] [Link] [Comment] [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2009, 2:10pm EST

  • Student-led learning at Calgary school draws interest from Down Under

    I meant to run this in October when it came out, but it slipped under the radar. Oh well - better late than never, because I still think it's worth highlighting. "The ability to let students decide how to approach their subjects encourages them to take ownership of their learning," [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2009, 5:09am EST

  • Google/Feedburner Link Pollution

    As someone who creates posts and edits links (in part) by hand, I have also noticed the 'link pollution' being propagated by Google and Feedburner (note that links served through OLDaily are always cleaned of 'utm' link garbage and redirects (such as Feedproxy or Feedburner) are dereferenced to provide actual [...]
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    Posted: November 26, 2009, 1:48pm EST

  • How do you connect to people online? (the video)

    Video with contributions from people around the world (but mostly from Canada and the U.S.) describing how we connect with each other. There is broad agreement that the most important thing (as Alan Levine says) is to find something that's comfortable, that's meaningful, and ultimately, that's personal. D'Arcy Norman, Weblog,' [...]
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    Posted: November 26, 2009, 1:42pm EST

  • Why you want to use scenarios in your elearning

    I liked this presentation, which suggests a design approach based more on getting learners to solve problems rather than remember facts. The proof, suggests Cathy Moore, is in the results: the problem-based approach, using scenarios, will actually improve performance. "Since many clients don't actually measure the effectiveness of their materials'" [...]
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    Posted: November 26, 2009, 1:27pm EST

  • Never mind the quality, feel the width

    "Is Wikipedia," asks Steve Wheeler, "dying a slow death?" That might be a fair conclusion to draw following this report, "that Wikipedia has lost 49,000 editors in just a few months." Larry Sanger, who created Citizendium as a response to Wikipedia, suggests that Wikipedia was just the first [...]
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    Posted: November 26, 2009, 1:16pm EST
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