From the team at Avaaz:
Dear friends,
In just 7 days over 1 million of us have signed the petition supporting human rights and dialogue in Tibet - the fastest growing internet petition in history! After decades of injustice, the Tibetan people are crying out to the world for change, and the world is answering.
As China’s leaders […]
My trusty laptop (an IBM X30) died a few weeks back. My data is fine but there’s something very unstable about the machine itself. After almost 5 years of intensive use, a survival from someone spilling coffee over it when I first came to Canada, and having accompianed me on many trips around this planet, […]
I have a PS3 that I “won” for talking at Office 2.0. I don’t really play games - no spare time. And their’s no emulator to let the PS3 run Wii games, yet. So what do I use the PS3 for? Running Yellow Dog Linux as a general purpose home print and file server […]
I’ll be giving a short talk at Social Networking night at Society of Internet Professionals on Weds 28th Nov, starting 6pm. I’ll discuss how wikis and related technologies work as open intranets and extranets, and how Social Networking techniques have and can been applied to wikis.
Their event will be at the Metro Convention Center, room […]
Hi all. Just a quick note that I am in the UK on the road visiting family (my sister’s wedding, congrats Sally & Stu) & friends and so am not reading email or checking voicemail in the meantime.
I’ll be back in Canada on the15th and presenting on the topic of Social Media at […]
According to situated cognition, knowledge does not transfer between tasks. Teaching through abstraction is of little use since real learning occurs …
http://www.uni-koeln.de/ew-fak/konstrukt/didaktik/situierteslernen/situative.ppt
I thought I’d start blogging about notable structuring methods I find around the net.
http://www.core.kochi-tech.ac.jp/hunter/semmapping/index.htm talks a student through how to go from a blank page to a coherent essay.
Yes, just start writing, but start writing an intermediate document to get out your thoughts, spot the patterns and create structures from it.
If you have favorite articles, […]
