Category: web 2.0
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Just say no to fear
In her recent post “MySpace and Abstinence,” Stephanie Sandifer from Houston draws parallels between schools not teaching kids about safe sex in the hope it will encourage them to not engage in sex at all, and banning social networking sites like MySpace in the hope students won’t use them. Her point on rejecting fear is…
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Learning, Offshoring, Feedback, Disruptive Process Innovation
I listened to a fantastic podcast by John Seely Brown from 22 June 2005 at Supernova 2005 this evening. This is linked by ITConversations, a superb source for innovative ideas and great podcasts. JSB’s presentation, which runs about 30 minutes long, is one of the best I have ever heard on offshoring, emerging economic processes,…
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Auto-Bio-Geography
Platial: The People’s Atlas is a website enabling people to overlay geographic information of personal interest on top of Google Maps. These creations can become “auto-bio-geography creations,” a term I had not heard of before. According to the website: Platial enables anyone to find, create and use meaningful maps of Places that matter to them.…
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Podcast52: Stories About Web 2.0
This presentation was shared as the introduction to my “Welcome to Web 2.0” workshop on Friday, March 24, 2006 in Orlando, Florida at the annual SITE conference. To introduce workshop participants to both the definition and capabilities of web 2.0 or read/write web technologies, I shared several stories about using these tools to communicate and…
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Sharing consumptive experiences
From the people who have brought us the free web 2.0 sites and services 43 things and 43 places now comes the website All Consuming. Quite fun and cool. According to the website, it is: …a website where you can track and talk about the books, music, movies, food and other items that interest you.…
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Web-based digital storytelling
Several weeks ago, Dr. Glen Bull alerted me to the Primary Access project and website. Primary Access is a web-based (web 2.0 – read/write web) service permitting people to use the Internet to create and share digital stories. Rather than using client-side software like iMovie or PhotoStory, people can use their web browser to create…
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Informational Text and Literacy
Bob Sprankle’s Bit by Bit podcast from March 25th titled “Informational Text and Literacy” is outstanding and well-worth listening to. The show is a rebroadcast of a staff development workshop in Wells, Maine, by Kevin Perks about the need to focus more on informational text (rather than just fiction) in our classrooms as we prepare…
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Skull Island Game
Find Skull Island is a flash-based, online game requiring the use of Google Earth along with the website. The idea is cool, and the price is right, but the primary purpose of the website (sponsored by Universal) is to get users to buy the “King Kong DVD” when it is released on April 10th. Still,…
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2020 – Future of Computing
Just found some fantastic articles for reading in the days to come: “2020 – Future of Computing” from Nature magazine. As they should be, all articles are available online in full-text, and free. “2020 computing: The creativity machine” (PDF) by Vernor Vinge is my favorite so far. The subtitle is, “What will emerge from using…
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Semapedia and GIS for the People
Have I mentioned lately how much I love web 2.0 tools and geography? I am playing with Google Earth today in preparation for tomorrow’s keynote in Fort Worth, and discovered Semapedia. According to the creators of Semapedia: Our goal is to connect the virtual and physical world by bringing the best information from the internet…