EduGeek Journal

When I first started following the concept of Web 3.0, every article about the semantic web, or the merging of the current web with virtual worlds, or cloud computing mentioned that we were a few years away from those technologies “arriving.”  Well, it’s been a few years and we are still being told “a few [...]

When we want to move our student’s learning environment into the ether of the web, we can be hard pressed to go beyond simply assigning more reading.  In the days of multimedia, interactivity and all things web 2.0, assigning links to on-line articles will not cause many students to leap up for their netbooks with [...]

Distance Education is a broad term that covers a lot of ground – everything from a remote campus connected to a hub campus via video cameras to a totally online, self-guided learning module.  I am beginning to wonder if we will start to see a greater divide between the two most popular modes – video [...]

Every time I start talking about Twitter, I get the same response: “Why would I want to read short messages about what someone ate for breakfast?”. You wouldn’t – but that is the wrong question to ask.  It is the same as asking “Why would I want to watch TV when there are soap operas [...]

This past week, Harriet and I began to present our ideas on a new vision for the Learning Management System at the TxDLA 2009 conference.  We will continue to present these at other conferences, including the Sloan-C Emerging Technology conference.  We had some rough ideas, but the common feedback we heard was: we need to [...]

As much as I love Web 2.0 sites, I also recognize that there are some drawbacks.  The biggest being the fact that the end user loses control of their content.  Recently, Google became a good example of how that can affect education when it shut down the Lively virtual world program, despite the protests of [...]