Digital Portfolios and Content
Silvia Tolisano, LangWitches, 2018/06/11
This is a good article introducing issues and approaches to content in digital portfolios in schools. "The content created and chosen to include in a digital portfolio can be free flowing or follow a more rigid structure... it depends on what the learner craves and feels more comfortable with. The worst seems to be, when a portfolio owner feels a lack of ownership, is so paralyzed and constrained from a given structure or to the contrary, a lack thereof, that they don’t create and publish anything". More...

As Google for Education tools enter classrooms across Canada, some parents are asking to opt-out
Craig Desson, Josh Flear, CBC, 2018/06/11
Google is not only creating new consumers in schools, it's creating a new consumer database from schools. "According to Google's privacy policy for their educational products, the company doesn't collect student data for advertising purposes or sell them to third parties. The apps are also ad-free. More...

Southern New Hampshire U Issues Blockchain Credentials to College for America Grads
Rhea Kelly, Campus Technology, 2018/06/11
"SNHU partnered with Learning Machine for its digital diploma project; the software company co-developed Blockcerts with the MIT Media Lab in 2016." I'm seeing quite a bit more of this sort of thing, though I have to say I think that digital certificates are the least interesting application of these new technologies to online learning. More...

Reflective Learning as the New Normal
Eric Sheninger, A Principal's Reflections, 2018/06/11

I've long said "to learn is to practice and reflect," and I am by no means the first to say such things. This article pursues that theme, and lists some different types of reflection. More...

The Second Annual Podcast Revenue Study by IAB and PwC
Interactive Advertising Bureau, 2018/06/11
Podcasting started in 2003 (which was when I launched Ed Radio) or 2004 and became popular, then disappeared, and now is a global industry worth some $313 million. This rep[ort (20 page PDF) looks mostly at revenue models (especially advertising) but still offers a broad outline of podcasting trends generally. More...