I have long admired the work of Stephen Downes, and here he has created a short viedo on a variety of activities you can complete using web 2.0 tools in ten minutes (or so). some new ideas for me here, and now I need to check out some of the references in the video. But somehow things like this NEVER take me 10 minutes!
26 Oct, 2008
Tweeting not so brightly
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I thought I would quickly go in and edit the rss feed on my twitter account to that it was accurately displaying both my tweets and those of the people I am following. For some reason, twitter is not giving me that feed without asking for authentication. I get a pop-up asking for my user name and password and it keeps on asking me for my user name and password in the same little pop-up window, ad infinitum. Even tryin g to cancel the intended action takes a couple of times. So I have given up (at least temporarily), and am just showing the last three tweets that only I have written, as opposed to the combined list of tweets from me and those who I am following. Bummer. But mostly right now I am starved, having been lying in bed on a Sunday morning for two hours now. breakfast time.
BTW, if anyone reading this has suggestions for what I need to do to get a Twitter feed for the me and the friends I am following, please let me know. Grazie.
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14 Aug, 2008
Glogster – Faces of Edupunk ~ Stephens Web ~ by Stephen Downes
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14 Aug, 2008
Glogster – Faces of Edupunk ~ Stephens Web ~ by Stephen Downes
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Glogster – Faces of Edupunk ~ Stephens Web ~ by Stephen Downes
I think its pretty difficult, if not impossible, to stay current with the releases of all of the web2.0 applications that are available. Stephen Downes talked about this new one called Glogster, which lets you create a multimedia poster. Haven’t stop to figure how this can be used educationally, but it sure looks like fun. for what that’s worth.
7 Aug, 2008
education & tech: Blogging as a Method of Communication May Be Over
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education & tech: Blogging as a Method of Communication May Be Over
Everyone could be a publisher. But now, blogging as everyones preferred method of communication may be over. Whats taking its place? Lifestreaming…The simplicity of a lifestream is ideal for our information overloaded age. Lifestreams are short and sweet, yet still provide the same insight into a person’s life as yesterday’s casual personal blog did. A video here, a photo there, and today’s web citizens can voyeuristically peer into anyone’s life and get a sense of who they are. Long-form bloggers, on the other hand (myself included) require time and attention to read, but with so many publishers out there, people just aren’t reading content like they used to – they’re just scanning text and moving on. For new bloggers, this means getting readers is harder than ever – your words are getting lost in a sea of noise. So to stand out, several are turning to the lifestream instead in order to get noticed.”
Something just seems inherently wrong about this notion of Lifestreams. “web citizens can voyeuristically peer into anyways life”? Since when is this important in life? What about sitting down to read a book, or a magazine, or the newspaper?I mean even talking on the telephone is becoming a bit retro these days (OK, OK, I know I am probably sounding my age which is closer to 60 than 50, but sometimes I have to rail against the speed of life in our “advanced society”.
Stop the world, I want to get off.
