By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Seb Schmoller[Edit][Delete]: 2 Billion People Own Mobile Phones, Fortnightly Mailing [Edit][Delete] October 7, 2006
And many many morfe peoplke have access to one - one pervasive sight in places like Colombia, South Africa and Lesotho was the small mobile phone business. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. George Siemens[Edit][Delete]: Eportfolio 2006, October 7, 2006
George Siemens is preparing an upcoming talk in a wiki. If I were mean, I would pull a Stephen Colbert and see if we couldn't convert george's keynote to repeated utteraqnces of "I am a sheep." Would George say that if that's what the wiki said? Anyhow, Siemens writes in his newsletter, "My "keynote written in a wiki" experiment is progressing well for some projects (and not so well for others). The eportfolio 2006 wiki (for London, next week) has generated some useful dialogue on whether portfolios should be conversation-driven or content-based. The feedback from individuals is a surprisingly enjoyable experience...compared to my usual 'develop the keynote in the dark. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Will Richardson[Edit][Delete]: The New Face of Learning, Edutopia [Edit][Delete] October 7, 2006
"What happens to the time-worn concepts of classroom and teaching," asks Will Richardson, "when we can now go online and learn anything, anywhere, anytime?" Long promised as the goal of online learning, this scenario is rapidly becoming a reality. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Stephen Downes[Edit][Delete]: What's The Number for Tech Support?, Half an Hour [Edit][Delete] October 7, 2006

Outline of how neuroscience informs learning, how this matches up with social network analysis, and how this in turn informs the approach we take in researching learning. [Tags: Research, Networks] [Comment]. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. John Hibbs[Edit][Delete]: Global Learn Day 10, October 7, 2006
In just a few hours, John Hibb's remarkable global adventure will set sail for the tenth time. Welcome, therefore, to a special Saturday Global Learn Day edition of OLDaily.

Regional Start Times and list of all Speakers ­ learn more

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By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Various authors[Edit][Delete]: The Medium is the Massage, October 6, 2006
Because it's never a bad time to listen to Marshall McLuhan. "Marshall McLuhan appeared on the Dick Cavett Show in December of 1970 along with Truman Capote and Chicago Bears running back, Gayle Sayers. Both Capote and Sayers participated in the discussion with McLuhan. This recording was made on reel-to-reel audio tape in 1970 and directly transferred to computer in 2005". More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Mary Madden and Susannah Fox[Edit][Delete]: Riding the Waves of Web 2.0, Pew [Edit][Delete] October 6, 2006
Another report from Pew, thiks time looking at everyone's favorite, Web 2.0. I like how the authors almost immediately strips Tim O'Reilly of the credit for having coined the term ("coined by Dale Dougherty and popularized by O'Reilly Media and MediaLive International"). And I like the way the authors deal with the definition of Web 2.0: "That the term has enjoyed such a constant morphing of meaning and interpretation is, in many ways, the clearest sign of its usefulness. This is the nature of the conceptual beast in the digital age, and one of the most telling examples of what Web 2.0 applications do: They replace the authoritative heft of traditional institutions with the surging wisdom of crowds. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Gayle Duncan[Edit][Delete]: The Networking Instinct, The Empire Club of Canada Speeches [Edit][Delete] October 6, 2006
On reading some of my recent work on networks John Duncan from Regina set me this speech by his brother to the Empire Club in 2001. The speech looks at some of the early achievements - such as Schoolnet's witing of the last school on Pictou Island - and embraces the network philosophy explicitly: "Like Brockman, I fervently believe that what he calls distributed networked intelligence is the greatest monument to our species' experiment with civilisationbuilding so far. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Stephen Downes, et.al.[Edit][Delete]: LearnNB, October 6, 2006
I am in Fredericton today for the LearnNB meeting - LearnNB is the local e-learning industry group, associated with CSTD and ASTD. I was pleased to be able to sit on a panel chaired by Ken Reimer looking at government and industry collaboration in the sector. Here's a link to the audio recording of the panel session (about 8 mB). [Tags: Audio Chat and Conferencing, Online Learning, Podcasting] [Comment]. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Scott Wilson[Edit][Delete]: Pushing the Boundaries of the VLE in Utrecht, October 5, 2006

More of those tiff lzw graphics that I can't view, but Scott Wilson's latest on personal learning environments is a good gauge of the advances in the concept (he even has a graph depicting supply and consumer demand!). More...