Looking for ways to explain what social networking, Twitter, podcasting etc is all about?
Commoncraft do a great job of this with simple, cartoon like videos where they manipulate paper cutouts and a voice over using clear, plain English.
Here’s one on social media:
Social Media in Plain English from leelefever on Vimeo.
CommonCraft offer a number of free […]
Here’s a great article aimed at people working in museums but I am sure it’s just as interesting for anyone working in any cultural institutions or really, anyone with an interest in social networking in general. Written by Nina Simon, ‘How much time does Web 2.0 take‘ looks at what you might be able […]
The Home Office in the UK has just release a report entitled ‘Good practice guidance for the providers of social networking and other user interactive services 2008‘. It’s probably a must read for providers of social networking services and many others. Educators and parents should all find something of interest in it. […]
It seems these types of calls are still appearing quite regularly. This BBC article reports on a Professional Association of Teachers conference in the UK. There is a desire here not just to ban sites such as YouTube in schools, but to shut them down. Locally we have seen a number of […]
ePortfolios have been around for a long time now and the range and diversity of ePortfolio implementations is, well, staggering. There are a lot of commercial software offerings and most eLearning platforms seem to have a portfolio component. Large numbers of schools, training organisations and higher education organisations have developed their own and […]
Technology plays a large part in the work I do and while I have made a commitment to try and blog about technology and its application relation to our work it is interesting to see just how difficult this can be at times. There are some quite natural constraints for work blogging which in […]
Listening to TWiT 91 over the weekend, I was really interested in the discussion on Twitter and how engaged in it some of the panelists were. For those not familiar with it I encourage you to go have a look. Its another social networking service that gives you 140 characters to type in […]
Previously I have contended that Linux could be challenging for the novice home user, mainly due to the difficulties that can be encountered on installation and setup. However, here I am posting from my ‘new’ Linux environment and really enjoying it. There is no doubt that everything seems to run much faster […]
Congratulations to all across the globe who contribute content and engage in conversations using the Web. Time Magazine has voted us all ‘Person of the Year‘.
What an acknowledgment from a traditional media company. To some extent social networking services are being gobbled up by traditional media giants anyway (eg myspace) but this does seem […]
Having recently had to write a brief on Web 2.0 I guess it has been occupying my thoughts a bit lately so I was very interested to read the following article:
Web 2.0 = a piece of jargon by ZDNet’s Dan Farber — During a podcast interview (transcript here) last week with Scott Laningham of […]
