TIME FOR AN UPGRADE: Aging Myakka Elementary in Manatee will get a $11 million facelift, the Bradenton Herald reports. (Bradenton Herald photo)
JUST LIKE FLORIDA: California education policymakers look to Florida's example when considering whether to allow the state's two-year colleges to offer four-year degrees, [...]
Simple, single functionality tools are great for collaboration. I’ve been involved in several implementations of larger-scale systems for collaboration (like Sharepoint). Adoption is generally slow, unless the tool is marketed heavily in the organization and integrated into workflow. In contrast, simple tools like wikis, Twitter, YouTube, blogs, and social networking [...]
Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology won a social-networking scavenger hunt over the weekend, locating 10 red weather balloons tethered across the country in less than nine hours, The New York Times reports. And all it took was a sort of pyramid scheme.
The contest was organized [...]
DARPA ran a Red Balloon challenge last week to explore “the roles the Internet and social networking play in the timely communication, wide-area team-building, and urgent mobilization required to solve broad-scope, time-critical problems”. DARPA positioned 10 red weather balloons in different locations around the US. The first group that [...]
SHORT-CHANGED: When Florida education commissioner Eric J. Smith talked to Pasco educators about the importance of funding, he notably didn't say anything about adequate funding, columnist C.T. Bowen writes.
MAKE IT RIGHT: St. Petersburg College needs to end the practice of overcharging students for books,' [...]
Date: Thursday, Jan 14, 2010Time: 10:00 AM Pacific / 1:00 PM EasternThe advent of Web 2.0 has brought us a dazzling array of free, easy-to-use social networking technologies. These can help trainers stay connected with our learners, facilitate the growth of learning communities, and help [...]
“Unfriend” is the word of 2009, according to the New Oxford American Dictionary. The verb refers to the act of removing someone as a “friend” on a social networking site such as Facebook. But some Facebook fans protested the choice, saying “defriend” is the term of art.
In technology, [...]
The New Oxford American Dictionary (Oxford University Press) has announced the winner of its annual "word of the year" contest: unfriend. In a post on Oxford University Press's Web site, Christine Lindberg, senior lexicographer for Oxford dictionaries, explained the choice. "In the online social networking context, its meaning is" [...]
In a post on my connectivism site, I argue that the future of learning will be in social networking services, not in learning management systems (an assertion not everyone agrees with – see the comments in the post). Additional commentary on Jane Hart’s post as well…and Moodle [...]
Like the rest of society, universities and colleges are reacting to social networking technology – Networking U
The good news is, universities over the past decade have been adapting to meet students at the level of technology they’ve come to accept. That means not only deploying state-of-the-art hardware and software, [...]
