“facebook exploits social interactions the way a Tupperware party does”
“Facebook has never been merely a social platform. Rather, it exploits our social interactions the way a Tupperware party does.” I am still not sure how big deal this is in practice. Even if this is...
View ArticleWhy Yammer believes the traditional engineering organizational structure is dead
Why Yammer believes the traditional engineering organizational structure is dead
View ArticleSelectively deprecating WordPress plugins from Dashboard > Plugins
Selectively deprecating WordPress plugins from Dashboard > Plugins Something like this will be useful for sites.psu.edu
View Article014: This Aggression Will Not Stand, Man
014: This Aggression Will Not Stand, Man the episode we tried to make “listenable” but ended up just giggling the whole time
View ArticleWhy We Yam
I originally posted this over at the TLT blog, but thought I’d leave a copy here as well. Last week I had the great opportunity to talk at an ITS Collab meeting about how yammer could improve...
View ArticleWon’t be able to ignore touch for much longer
Nathaniel Mott, writing for pando daily: Again, I think of the way my nephew uses the computer. He wants to use a computer to do something, whether it’s look at pictures of animals (he’s a fan of...
View ArticleWhy We Yam
I originally posted this over at the TLT blog, but thought I’d leave a copy here as well. Last week I had the great opportunity to talk at an ITS Collab meeting about how yammer could improve...
View ArticleYammer to deliver Office Web Apps, SkyDrive Pro integration this summer –...
At the same time, Gartner predicted that by 2016, 50% of large organizations will have internal enterprise social networks, of which 30% will be considered “as essential as email and telephones are...
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“I think all institutions of higher education need to adopt the trifecta model which is MOOC, blended, traditional, if they want to remain vital in the coming years.” (via A VC: Video Of The Week:...
View Articlecolleges may not be able to meet the growing need for sophisticated support...
Our discussions have highlighted our biggest challenge—finding an experienced MOOC instructional designer, or at least a platform specialist. As instructors continue to take the necessary risks to test...
View ArticleWon’t be able to ignore touch for much longer
Nathaniel Mott, writing for pando daily: Again, I think of the way my nephew uses the computer. He wants to use a computer to do something, whether it’s look at pictures of animals (he’s a fan of...
View ArticlePenn State Is Revisiting General Education On The Open Web
I’ve been watching the discussion about revising general education at Penn State and marveling at how the task force is using the web and social media to engage the Penn State community. Last Thursday...
View Articledon’t swim upstream through media
When you are trying to encourage learners to engage with various media, such as a social networking systems or other forms of participation, don’t try to twist the tools to act and behave exactly as...
View ArticleSound Is The Past and The Future
I read this post from Craig Eley about the influence of sound technologies on computer technologies. Eley quotes Steve Jobs talking about the Mac: [The telephone] was a breakthrough, because people...
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