Category Archives: Strategy

A sign of things to come

One of my professional heros, Jim Groom, aka edupunk, has written about the upcoming WordPress University event on April 8. More campuses are exploring and hacking on open source applications like WordPress to start re-imagining the social implications of web-based communities for publishing, research, teaching, and learning.
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Crossing boundaries

I’m giving a presentation on crossing online boundaries in higher education at WordPress University in Norwood, Massachusetts (near Boston) on April 8. Organizer Randy Rode has put together a phenomenal agenda for this second annual conference, covering five distinctive uses of WordPress on campuses around the country. I’m excited about presenting several of the frameworks we’re [...]
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Video: Make the future

A video from FutureLab looking at “ideas drawn from research commissioned under the Beyond Current Horizons programme, which considers the future of education in the light of social and technological change.”
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Video: Social Media Revolution

“Is social media a fad? Or is it the biggest shift since the Industrial Revolution? This video details social media facts and figures” through June 2009. More about the video
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