Tweetdeck Chrome App

I’ve just installed the new TweetdDeck app for Google Chrome and like what I see so far. It takes the “that’s so obvious, why wasn’t it done before” idea of combining (TweetDeck calls this blending) all your feeds into three columns. Home: for all your identities and the people they follow across all of your social networks; Me: for mentions of your social identities and posts to your facebook newsfeeds; and Inbox: for direct messages....

February 9, 2011 · 1 min

My First Pencast

Last year, I bought a Livescribe Echo Smart Pen with the hope that it would be useful in teaching. Well, here the result of my first attempt to use it “in anger”. I used the pen to write out a solution to one of the problems from my module EGLM03 Modern Control Systems while recording a narrative of what I was doing. The pen recorded the pen movement on the special notepaper and matched the movement to the audio....

February 3, 2011 · 1 min

Welcome Class of 2011

Welcome to the blogging exercise ICCT class of 2011. Please leave the link to your new blog in the comments.

January 31, 2011 · 1 min

Diigo group and Pearltree for CCK11

A couple of small things: I’ve created an open public Diigo group for Connectivism and Connected Knowledge 2011 which you can use to share useful bookmarks (http://groups.diigo.com/group/cck_2011) and a team Pearltree (http://pear.ly/JgB5). I won’t have much time to contribute to CCK11, but I’m hoping that my network will help me by curating the must see resources that I might not have time to do for myself. As Karen Stephenson (cited in Siemens 2005) says:...

January 19, 2011 · 1 min

Diigo group and Pearltree for CCK11

A couple of small things: I’ve created an open public Diigo group for Connectivism and Connected Knowledge 2011 which you can use to share useful bookmarks (http://groups.diigo.com/group/cck_2011) and a team Pearltree (http://pear.ly/JgB5). I won’t have much time to contribute to CCK11, but I’m hoping that my network will help me by curating the must see resources that I might not have time to do for myself. As Karen Stephenson (cited in Siemens 2005) says:...

January 19, 2011 · 1 min