The midden

Mike Wesch’s latest Youtube video, A Portal to Media Literacy, is essential viewing for all educators. He describes so clearly why we have to change and challenge the present system of educating our young people. He is clearly a passionate teacher and someone who understands the world in which his students move.
His dismantling of the [...]

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Jane Hart, head of the Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies, has produced a useful list of the most popular tools used by learning professionals. The list is a mix of proprietary, open source and web-based tools. She has also grouped them by type, and given other suggestions of similar tools in each category.

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An interesting debate from Fora.tv that was one of 3 from a recent event called Battle for New Technologies. The panel includes a number of key speakers including Norman Lewis (Chief Strategy Officer, Wireless Grids Corporation), Robin Walsh (Producer of scientific conferences for the Pharmaceutical Industry), MT Rainey (Joint CEO of Rainey Kelly Campbell [...]

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A really great presentation by Will Richardson describing where our students are coming from, how they are living there lives with the technology and how we need to be looking at the pedagogies we use as teachers and asking ourselves how relevant they really are.
4 questions you should ask yourself as a teacher:
1. What are [...]

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The debate over whether Wikipedia is as a reliable source of information as Encyclopaedia Britannica has been going on since Jimmy Wales co-founded Wikipedia back in 2001 along with Larry Sanger.
These pages correct some of the errors people have found in Encyclopedia Britannica, illustrating that EB isn’t always the definitive and authoritative source that some [...]

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Ning is a social networking site created in 2004 by Marc Andreessen, the founder of the Netscape browser and Gina Bianchini.

The main features of Ning are:

it is easy to set up (you can be up and running in a couple of minutes)
it is free (although you can pay to have the Google ads removed and [...]

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