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I’ve posted this before, but, since the course started today, I’ll mention it again: Introduction to Emerging Technologies, Africa is an open online 12 week course. I’m teaching the course with Dave Cormier. IETA is delivered in both English and French. More information: Google Groups – for regular emails from course instructors Moodle – English [...]

We’re still early on the social media hype curve. Letting people connect effortlessly produces all kinds of interesting results. But the implications of easy connectivity are not fully understood. Should we have “tech free” zones in schools? How does etiquette change when conversation continually flows on microblogging services such as Twitter? What is appropriate to [...]

The Personal Learning Environments and Networks Conference (more info here) starts next week (Oct 13-16). The event is free to attend. We’ll be posting summaries on The Daily, so you might want to sign up for the week to keep track of the conference. The event has been organized by National Research Council of Canada [...]

Clive Thompson’s argument that the real time web is leaving Google behind makes a few interesting points…but it’s essentially wrong. Controversial statements draw more attention (hence, why I’m linking to this!), but what Thompson overlooks is that the web is expanding and fragmenting into specialized subsets…not that the core web is changing. For example, an [...]

I live south of Winnipeg in a small community. During my commute this morning, I noticed a section of our street “under construction”. The street was closed off. I have no idea what they are doing. And why. It occurred to me that I’m no longer satisfied in “letting things happen to me”. Perhaps I’m [...]