Doug Woods on “Good Teachers Don’t Need Technology”

Doug Woods (ICT in Schools) has blogged about why he thinks that it’s inappropriate the say that “good teachers don’t need technology” and he goes into some details here: http://doug-woods.blogspot.com/2010/06/good-teachers-dont-need-technology.html I’ve tried to post a comment on his blog, but so far it didn’t appear there, so I’d like to use…

PayPal: an Online Service or an Old Technology Company?

Finally, after sending in a fax (so old technology), my standard paypal account got re-activated… I’m still baffled by their unresponsiveness to my repeated efforts to resolve this issue via their ONLINE resolution centre… Strange for an online payment service that offline means of communication are the only ones to…

“Steep Learning Curve” or how human intuition has failed us again…

This morning, while checking tech news about all-things-mac, I’ve found a short news article about the rumored Tablet or Slate that Apple, Inc. is supposed to introduce end of January 2010. So far, nothing new… 🙂 However, Mac Essentials was reporting that Cult of Mac got a stunning piece of…

eLearning is about eConversation, not eDelivery

I’ve been thinking and reflecting a lot over the last years about the benefits and pitfalls of iTunesU and the like and the views that many university administrators have on eLearning… thinking that recording all lectures and putting them online will yield more and better student learning… I beg to…

COMMENT ON: Social networking sites: why no abuse report button?

Social networking sites: why no abuse report button? Nic Fleming, contributor Facebook and MySpace are failing to protect children from paedophiles and bullies, a former senior police officer says. The social networking sites have refused to embed a “report button” that would allow users to report abuse. The Child Exploitation…

GLOSSARY: Crowdsourcing – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Crowdsourcing is a neologism for the act of taking tasks traditionally performed by an employee or contractor, and outsourcing them to a group (crowd) of people or community in the form of an open call. For example, the public may be invited to develop a…