Archive for November 2008
Voice surfing
Posted by: ashleytan on: November 30, 2008
According to IBM, in five years you might be surfing the WWW using your voice. And you may have to thank India for this.
Web 2.0 @ Mumbai
Posted by: ashleytan on: November 29, 2008
Web 2.0 was used to good effect during the 2004 tsunami and the 2008 US Presidential election. But I think that its use has stepped up a level with the tragic Mumbai attacks.
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Wired gave an outline of how tweets, blogs, Flickr, Google Maps, and YouTube were harnessed by tech-savvy Indians to let [...]
Educational Twittering?
Posted by: ashleytan on: November 27, 2008
I used to think that Twitter was a complete waste of time. Why would anyone want to microblog within a limit of 140 characters?
But Twitter has gained momentum and some educators have suggested its value and have offered ideas for teaching and learning. One page I bookedmarked a while ago is “Twitter for Academia“. Another [...]
Web 2.0 @ Work
Posted by: ashleytan on: November 26, 2008
Every day I get at least one article via RSS that suggests the value of Web 2.0 at work.
I ignore most of them because they rarely suggest concrete ideas. I also think that the way they might be used at work differs markedly from how they might be used in education.
Along came an article from [...]
A study on digital natives
Posted by: ashleytan on: November 25, 2008
The MacArthur Foundation just released the results of a three-year ethnographic study entitled “Living and learning with new media: Summary of findings from the Digital Youth Project”.
The study had two main research questions:
How are new media being integrated into youth practices and agendas?
How do these practices change the dynamics of youth-adult negotiations over literacy, learning, [...]
Wireless for good reason
Posted by: ashleytan on: November 21, 2008
In previous entries [1] [2], I talked about how schools could create anytime-anywhere, secure wireless networks instead of relying on computer labs or special media labs. I also described how students could be given laptops or netbooks on a 1:1 ratio. If not, they could adopt mobile labs like the ones Apple has been offering [...]
Edublog’s university of blogs
Posted by: ashleytan on: November 20, 2008
Edublogs recently announced “The University of Blogs“. Unfortunately, you can’t get a degree in blogging here!
The University of Blogs is actually a demonstration of a multi-blog management tool. Take a look at the video at the link above to find out about some nifty features. From an educator’s and administrator’s point of view, I think [...]
