TEDxNYED: Independently organized TED event
Examining the role of new media and technology in shaping the future of education
Andy Carvin
Michael Wesch
Henry Jenkins
Lawrence Lessig
Jeff Jarvis
George Siemens
Those were some of my heroes lined up at TEDxNYED, the independent TED event held in NYC, on March 6, 2010, a beautiful if cold spring day. Now all the videos are [...]
OMG! This is the TEDxNYED Speaker Lineup for March 6th, in NYC. See u there, hopefully!
Gina Bianchini
Co-founder and CEO of Ning.
Amy Bruckman
Associate professor in the School of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She and her students in the Electronic Learning Communities (ELC) research group do research on social computing, particularly for educational [...]
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A couple of those nice & dandy guys at Linden Lab (Second Life) have opened a new startup, and in true Silicon Valley 2.0 style they’re starting up in a new, interesting way. Let’s see. First, the new startup is “LoveMachine, Inc.“. What does LoveMachine do?
Philip and Ryan (@ Linden Labs) say:
we are [...]
AHEAD.com: Workspaces for the creative mind.
“Layout, Share and Publish any rich media in your own zooming web spaces with complete creative freedom. It’s like using InDesign – Only it’s free and online.”
Gorgeous tool. Similar to Prezi with a twist and extraordinary elegance. Place objects on a canvas, then create zooming slideshows over those objects.
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The more I teach… and the more I see and use technology within education… the more I get anti-teaching.
This technology business and all my active involvement with Web 2.0 and education stuff have taught me a few things, I believe. In a few words, I’m thinking and thinking these days that education done [...]