The Power of Wikis in Higher Ed  
In this first half of a two-part interview, Mader talks about powerful ways to use wikis in education, content ownership issues, and how wikis tend to be used--and why... Read more >>
Using a content management system in education  
Content management systems (CMS) are computer programs which are used to create and maintain websites. There are many different CMS programs. Each type of CMS can be customised with specific functions, enabling you to a have various options (modules) on your website, depending on your needs. Options include: modules for publishing news, modules for displaying on-line books and modules for creating blogs...Read more >>

Young People and Social Networking Services  
The project is designed to investigate how social networking services can and are being used to support personalised formal and informal learning by young people in schools and colleges... Read more >>
Microblogging: The Future of Participatory Media  
This excellent slide show makes the case for the growing importance of micro-blogging. It makes a case for "social objects" rather than social networking, and then lays out 5 principles for building services around them.... Watch the presentation>>
Comments On Proving the Potential of Virtual Worlds  
My negative comments on Second Life in my July 2nd post inspired several replies which rightly chastised me for being too one sided. Given that readers of the e-mail version of this newsletter don't automatically get the comments, I am reproducing them here... Read more >>
Michael Wesch and the Future of Education  
“It’s basically an ongoing experiment to create a portal for me and my students to work online,” he explains. “We tried every social media application you can think of. Some worked, some didn’t.” (video)... Read more>>
One computer in multi-grade classroom  
Despite the growing attention on the use of computer technologies in education, its actual use in the classroom has not grown to the extent that many predicted. One reason is the lack of equipment. Yet, many teachers have shown that it is possible to accomplish great things with access to even a single computer in the multi-grade classroom... Read more >>
Google Earth Education Community  
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This community exists to offer a place where teachers and students can share and find information about educational topics that has been organized using Google Earth software. .. Read more
Enquiring Minds  
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On this page you'll find links to a series of short 'position papers' based on work in progress on Enquiring Minds, drawing from current research to articulate and situate the project in relation to the political language and academic analysis of education today... Read more
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