#educause09

November 4, 2009

Attending the Educause conference for educational technologists in Denver this week.  A quick shot from the opening Keynote.
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Boulder

October 28, 2009

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Brilliant YouTube Vid- GWave Cinema: Pulp Fiction

October 16, 2009

This is wicked good. Especially if you’ve used Wave, you can see how they’ve integrated a lot of the features and tools. If only Wave flowed this smoothly {little laggy so far}
Def adult rated (it’s Pulp Fiction after all).

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Wave has landed

October 14, 2009

I was finally hit by one of the GWave roll outs, so I’m on board.  Now I just have to find some other Wavers to ride with…
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What is a Browser? (YouTube)

October 12, 2009

I hadn’t seen this before.  Interesting and gives some insight into just how quickly particular technologies can be integrated into our daily lives… and of course the relative transparency of certain tools.  The browser as search raises lots of potential questions… Google’s ubiquity, that the clip was produced by Google, that it’s not how (through [...]

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Post: A River Runs Through It- Persistently Present

October 12, 2009

David Liu, an executive at AOL, calls it replacing the in-box with “a river that continues to flow as you dip into it.
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Thinking about this quote from David Liu in the WSJ.com article dovetails nicely with a key facet of my dissertation research. Email works with the old online (check/send messages), offline framework. [...]

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T-Mobile: All Your Sidekick Data Has Been Lost Forever (via Mashable)

October 11, 2009

In T-Mobile’s words: “based on Microsoft/Danger’s latest recovery assessment of their systems, we must now inform you that personal information stored on your device – such as contacts, calendar entries, to-do lists or photos – that is no longer on your Sidekick almost certainly has been lost as a result of a server failure at [...]

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Ecosystem Change

October 11, 2009

One of the many projects I’m engaged with right now is working with a group of fellow innovators who are exploring collaborative change processes in large ecosystems (eg. education and healthcare). Spearheaded by @sourcePOV and a core group of interested thought leaders, the group is meeting regularly for discussions (fairly high level right now) about [...]

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4 Things Old Media (and others) Can Learn From the Music Industry (via Mashable)

October 8, 2009

The news industry will have the same problem. Anyone who makes a living off the process of supplying, writing, editing, printing and distributing printed piles of paper all over the country will have to be transformed if the news industry is to embrace the digital opportunity. Most importantly, consumers will always prefer free.
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LMS/CMS and GWave

October 7, 2009

Google argues that its new Google Wave system could replace e-mail by blending instant messaging, wikis, and image and document sharing into one seamless communication interface. But some college professors and administrators are more excited about Wave’s potential to be a course-management-system killer.
“Just from the initial look I think it will have all the features [...]

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