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Both a humorous and critical commentary of Twitter, Ben Walker’s song “You’re no one if you’re not on Twitter” makes a number of points about the variety of viewpoints on Twitter.

The “Twitterverse,” certainly, has its fair share of “rubbish,” as Walker says. But I still maintain that its this “rubbish” that creates community. The last [...]

I attended a forum last week at USC in which Niall Sclater presented on Personal Learning Environments (PLEs) and the Future of Learning Management Systems. He made a point that I think has been missing from many discussions on PLEs - his laptop is his PLE. That’s where he creates, organizes, and connects to all [...]

I was recently in a conversation about how best to ease techno-skeptic instructors into using technology for teaching and learning.
Thus far my strategy has been:

Explain why using technology for learning isn’t new
Tell them why they should care
Talk about pedagogical theories
Introduce some technologies
Demonstrate how people are using specific types of technologies for teaching
Show feedback and statistics [...]