Conference Insights: Charters & Tech
The Learning Collective just returned from two conferences: the National Charter Schools Conference and ISTE. In fact, we may have been the only folks at both. Here are some takeaways: 2.1 million of the 55 million K-12 students nationally are in charter schools Lots of discussions on BYOD (bring your own devices) were happening at […]
UNICEF Rapid Prototyping Lessons
Interesting lessons learned excerpted from UNICEF’s Stories of Innovation … This video is a synopsis of the projects, themes and trouble-shooting expressed at the Design Days event on May 10-11 at UNICEF NYHQ. We have edited down a conversation between UNICEF sponsored rapid design prototypers to profile what they have created in order to respond […]
Why Mobile? Rick Rasansky and Roy Rosin
Mobile executives discuss why it is important for e-learning and web developers to be paying attention to mobile development (in the video below).
Education and Google Buzz…A Match?
It seems, Google has thrown down the gauntlet…Google Buzz is a incredibly powerful attempt to take a piece of Facebook’s market share in social networking. Google Buzz is powerful because if you have a Gmail account you are already a member. Within minutes of logging in to my Gmail account I had followers and I […]
Augmented Reality and Education
Image via CrunchBase Five Dutch content providers participated in the development of worlds first AR (Augmented Reality) browser. There are a variety of developers working in this area currently and it is the new buzz word in tech circles. Augmented Reality is technology that allow the user to point AR equipped devices at objects to […]
A Wireside Chat with Lawrence Lessig
Lawrence Lessig, is the foundational voice and an advocate of the free culture movement, Creative Commons and Open Source. The Open Video Alliance will present a live webcast of a talk by Lawrence Lessig at the end of February.
Location (Map) Based Social Network
A Location or Map-Based Social Network’s is a real-time representation of social network nodes via a map interface. Here is a quick summary of the topic.
WhiteHouse.gov Offers First iPhone App
Last week WhiteHouse.gov announced the new White House App. This new App delivers dynamic content from WhiteHouse.gov on to your iPhone or iPod Touch. President Obama has once again raised the bar of transparency for presidents in years to come.
The Edublog Award Winners
Here are a few winners of the 2009 Edublog Awards that were announced recently.