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Wired 11.09: PowerPoint Is Evil
PowerPoint is a competent slide manager and projector. But rather than supplementing a presentation, it has become a substitute for it. Such misuse ignores the most important rule of speaking: Respect your audience.
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JOLT – Journal of Online Learning and Teaching
Learning happens, if it happens at all, in one’s head. The only learning management system that matters, in the end, is the one that happens in the heart and mind of the learner. As Ken Kesey might say, striking a match may or may not be a revolutionary act, depending upon the heart of the person striking the match. Every technology application hosted by an institution or available on the web can be a technical and bureaucratic obstacle course, or it can be a launch pad into the learning imagination.
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globeandmail.com: What’s to love about LinkedIn?
If you want to stay connected with the people you know and spark professional relationships with those you don’t, LinkedIn does the trick. But it also has its irritations.
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globeandmail.com: Head in the clouds
instead of having a powerful desktop computer on every desk, users would all be working on “thin clients”—low-powered PCs (or even laptops) that would be connected to the network at all times and would store most of their data in “the cloud.”
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globeandmail.com: Creating a global brain
Clear explanation of web 3.0 with examples
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globeandmail.com: Q&A with Bill Buxton
“we have a new class of product—PCs, mobile phones, MP3 players and GPS—but there’s no user interface in either the hardware or software. Traditional industrial designers can’t solve the problem. They understand the hardware but not the software. Computer scientists understand the software, but they have no experience with design. To get that right, we need a new kind of designer who understands both the technology and the context. There’s no place to learn that right now,”
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Calaméo – Publish and share documents
Could be useful – similar to Scribd & issuu
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