Use that blog wisely
I’ve been reading and hearing a lot lately on what blogs are and are not. James Farmer’s post on how not to use blogs in education nicely summarizes a number of key points:
Archive for July, 2005
Collaboration Software betas
We’re off on vacation for a couple of days relaxing in beautiful Burlington Vermont. So no big thoughtful posts for now. But I couldn’t resist a quick post, with likes to some interesting collaborative software I’ve come across.
Potter-ian Pirates
Here is another example of not giving your fans what they want, for fear of piracy. And that having the opposite effect of encouraging piracy among many loyal fans who would be quite willing to pay. J.K. Rowling has declined interest in releasing digital versions of the Potter books. But despite that, multiple digital versions of the latest Potter epic were available on line as little as 11 hours after its release, and an unauthorized audio version may also be coming:
Students Say High Schools Let Them Down - New York Times
Maybe the problem is that the way the school are teaching no longer reflects the way the students are learning…
Cyberage Shifts
John Seeley Brown’s work is always inspiring to read. I was pulling a reference from his website this morning and ended up spending the better part of an hour there reading through his articles. Here are some ideas from his article “Growing
Up Digital: How the Web Changes Work, Education, and the Ways People
Learn, from Change magazine (2000):
JARFLYS: Anonymous
I got turned onto this group last night, and I’m a new fan. I even ordered the CD, along with an extra copy to legally pass along to a friend. As with Magnatune, this publisher passes on most of the purchase price on to the artists
