EduGeek Journal

Here is a typical scenario in education when an instructor or administrative person decides to explore some online social networking tool. Let’s take micro-blogging for an example. You sign up for Twitter, learn to use it, and then Tweet away for a few days or even weeks. They you get busy and disappear for about [...]

Courtesy of Metamedia and Pete – the Adventures of Bollywood Blackboard-wala: Ep. 1 Paying The Annual Licensing Fee Ep. 2 Dealing with Customers Looking at the Open Source Alternative Ep. 3 Dealing with the Patent Invalidation Ruling Ep. 4 Confronting the Open Source Challenge Ep. 5 Live from Blackboardwala World 2008 Ep. 6 Dealing with [...]

Google has been bit by the social bug. A big, crazy, infectious social bug. Social networking is becoming a part of everything they do. I was recently working on an online Google Presentation for an upcoming conference presentation and noticed that GTalk is integrated in to Google Presentations. You can chat with people online as [...]

I get weekly emails toting some service that is going to take e-learning to the next level, several steps forward, into the next century, etc. If this was even the case half the time I get a notice, e-learning would already be in the 25th century. But, obviously we’re not there yet. So I wanted [...]

Greetings guys and gals! Great to be back … kind of. I do miss my little gal. Janelle is doing *great*, by the way. :) I read an article recently in Wired called Rise of the Instapreneur. The article discusses sites that allows anyone to upload designs/blueprints for furniture, houses, clothing, etc., and a user/shopper [...]