A thoughtful piece in The New York Times about reading in the internet age and the implications for literacy, cognition and learning.
German publishing giant Bertelsmann is going to be publishing part of the German version of Wikipedia as a book. Yes, a real book with a hard cover, paper pages and everything! Golly gee willickers, Batman, talk about innovation.
What is absolutely fascinating for me at the moment is how traditional models of publishing and information management […]
Education.au recently hosted a national e-portfolio symposium. The recommendations that emerged from the discussion are based around four strands:
1. Ownership and purpose: In this discussion, participants were asked to consider the issue of e-portfolio ownership, and the responsibility for overall authorship, access, use and currency;
2. Interoperability: This discussion covered the issue of building an e-portfolio […]
In the 17th century Descartes said “I think, therefore I am”.
In 2008, Descartes would say: “I ‘Facebook‘ therefore I am”.
The problem is that ‘I am’ in all sorts of places and I’m feeling a bit Sybil.
There’s my Facebook, which is a mix of offline friends, online friends and work colleagues. I have a pipl profile, […]
I have every letter that I have ever received. True. They live in a few big plastic storage containers under my bed - written on paper, by hand, or on typewriter. A few typed on a word processor and printed out and sent via snail mail. Letters from the time that Susan Campbell moved away […]
