A Two Way Street?

“Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.” Jim Rohn Screencasting – The Experience Because of the impending celebration of Halloween, it seemed only logical to play around with JING by creating a screencast of a ghost story.  Here is the result: The Legend of the Axe […]

Getting in Flow With Information

“The tools that consumers need are those that allow them to get in the flow, that allow them to live inside information structures wherever they are and whatever they are doing.  They need tools that allow them to easily grab what they want and to stay peripherally aware without feeling overwhelmed.” Danah Boyd  – Streams […]

Why am I Always on the Fence?

“Play more than one game at a time. This is a painless way to learn how to do many things at once.”            Marilyn vos Savant I have a converging/accommodating learning style (Kolb Learning Style Inventory), an appreticeship/developmental teaching style(Pratt and Collins Teaching Perspectives Inventory) and a extrovert, intuitive, feeling/thinking, perceiving […]

Public Displays of Connection

“The most famous photograph of Times Square is surely Alfred Eisenstaedt’s chestnut of the kissing couple, which summed up the national mood in 1945 because it combined all the right elements: the returning soldier, the woman who welcomed him back and Times Square, the crossroads that symbolized home.” Michael Kimmelman, art critic for The Times, […]

Let’s All Sing Like the Birdies Sing – Ah choo!

“Micro-blogging isn’t a short-term trend – it is here to stay. The evolution of blogging has spawned this new mini version of blogging and many are latching on. The simplicity and ability to post frequently are what attract most to the concept. We expect much faster adoption and mainstream penetration than blogging in general.”  Read […]

Press the Easy Button

“I’ve always been fascinated with the idea that complexity can come out of such simplicity.” Will Wright My journey to RSS began by trying to connect to a newsletter called The Daily which is the course newsletter for George Siemans (or as EM would say, Hor hay) and Stephen Downes online course Connectivism and Connective […]