Brainstorm in Progress

I would like to highly recommend a book I am currently reading to educators interested in Connectivism . It is called Writing on t...

Biblioteque Nationale There is a fascinating article by Harvard librarian  Robert Darnton in this month's New York Review of ...

George Siemens (Photo credit: heloukee ) I am very interested in the instructional design of MOOCs. While I was worki...

I have been thinking recently about Psy and the K-pop phenomena of his video "Gangnam Style" that broke out of the internet and o...

Minitel, France, 1982.  Wikipedia I was just in Paris this month. How did I get to Paris? Fortunately for me, my car got stolen...

This is an article I wrote for the Times Standard "Tech Beat' column for May 11, 2012: I have read a few claims recently about ...

This is an article I wrote for the "Tech Beat" column for the Times-Standard : Darrell is a part-time student who does not own...

An illustration of Phelps' Electro-motor Printing Telegraph, the last and most advanced telegraphy mechanism designed by George May Phel...

Tweeting bird, derived from the initial 't' of Twitter Deutsch: Twitschervogel, entwickelt aus dem Anfangs-'t' von Twitter (...

I wanted to write a few notes here about many of the questions and comments I have read on Twitter and elsewhere about the iPad and textbook...

On Jan 24th, Congress will vote to pass internet censorship in the Senate, even though the vast majority of Americans are opposed. We need t...

The  Redwood Technology Consortium welcomes the public to join them at the 3rd annual Holiday Tweet-up, Wednesday, Dec. 14, at Greenway Par...

Josh Jarrett at discussing "Access is Not Enough." Challenges from here to 2020 Warning: raw notes ahead! Three challenges f...

Image by moqub via Flickr We have been talking at work about what the next generation of LMSs (learning management systems) should look lik...

Image via Wikipedia After weeks of Twitter fuled violence, rioting and crime, the British government is considering shutting off social netw...

Image via Wikipedia As you are probably aware, I am a big fan of Google. I have been using and writing about their products from very early ...

Image via Wikipedia I think we should all be getting now how important social media has become in politics (Iran, Egypt, Tunisia, Wisconsin...