Umeda sky building escalator, originally uploaded by quaisi. I posted some months back on OLT’s efforts to develop a forum-type view of comment activity across a blog, an attempt to address complaints from some students that tracking discussion across many posts on an active course blog was co...

This photo from a series Macs through the ages at Silicon.com is the first laptop produced by Apple in its PowerBook 100 series. This colorful seven pounder does not look all that different from today’s laptop, yet this picture was taken in 1991, nearly 20 years ago! The biggest tech differenc...

Volgens Michael Feldstein vallen de motieven om aan de slag te gaan met open education uiteen in waarden en waarde. Waarden Filantropisch: je maakt onderwijs (met name de kwalitatief goede content) toegankelijker voor degenen die het niet kunnen betalen. Pedagogisch-didactisch:......

Nothing in this post is new, but I had a reminder of the idiocy of copyright today. I got a message from YouTube telling me my Edupunk video had been blocked because of a copyright claim. The account read: "Your video, Edupunk , may have audio content from Anarchy In The U.K. by Sex Pistols that is ...

When I look at the photo with this post, I can probably tell you things about it that you would not know, because we have different expertise. I remember New Mexico of the 1940s, where this photo was taken. As a child I rode several time in the back of a truck that looked just like the one in the pi...

Honest, I didn’t make up that word: I found it this morning on my RSS feed from Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day. The experts there tell us that frigorific is an adjective meaning : causing cold : chilling. This morning it is 14 degrees here in New York City — definitely frigorifi...

One of the best things I saw at the National Digital Forum in Auckland last week was DigitalNZ. Being a Kiwi myself, I am immensely proud that New Zealand has leapt forward and produced a federated collection product that aggregates and then allows access through a web interface and an open API. Tha...

This is a fascinating article, one that deserves more attention than I can give it in this short item. Chris Lott defends (what he perceives to be) the OER movement against (what he perceives to be) its critics - people like Brian Lamb and Leigh Blackall. These two veterans of open content and open ...

Reading Open Content is So, Like, Yesterday just now, the following bits jumped out at me: Sometimes– maybe even most of the time– what I find myself needing is something as simple as a reading list, a single activity idea, a unit for enrichment. At those times, that often-disparaged content is ...

This except is from the draft introduction to the handbook I am writing on findability. Wonderfully, Howard Rheingold seems able always to get to the crux of things: “All of the world’s knowledge is in the air to be plucked down by our telephone. Of course it’s also all the world’s disinform...