Copia announced the first socially enabled ereader at the Computer Electronics Show (CES). While a new ereader isn’t significant news the social networking component is and if the company can live up to its CES announcement ereaders many finally be evolving into something useful. This is definitely one to watch…
The Chronicale of Higher Education points to an innovative web-based service Memorial University in Canada has developed called Yaffle which is essentially a matchmaking tool designed to bring together researchers at the University with the public and business. The goal of the project was to improve the Universities ability to communicate the breath and impact of its research. Yaffle has been running for just under a year and Memorial is considering commercializing, licensing or perhaps even making it available for free. This is one to watch…
The Morgan Stanley reports in the following three different formats can be accessed directly from their site.
- “The Mobile Internet Report Setup”– a 92-slide presentation that excerpts highlights of the key themes from the report
- “The Mobile Internet Report Key Themes” – a 659-slide presentation that drills down on thoughts covered in “The Mobile Internet Report”
- “The Mobile Internet Report” – a 424 page report which explores 8 major themes in depth and includes the two aforementioned slide presentations + related overview text
While I have only had the time to go through the smaller 95 slide report setup it looks like Morgan Stanley has done really good job at addressing the key issues with the mobile internet. I am looking forward to finding some extended time to have a thorough look at the full report.
Over the past several years I have collected many links to some exceptional videos that challenges us to rethink education, teaching and learning. Each Wednesday I will post a link or embed one of these videos in the main blog page as well as add it to the Wednesday Watchlist in the sidebar in hope that it will stimulate thinking and discussion on how we can improve our learning environments.
I will be starting this weekly post with what I believe is one of the best videos on creativity and learning. Sir Ken Robinson makes the argument that Schools Kill Creativity and offers several suggestion as to how we can correct this problem. The original video was post on the TED at a much higehr resolution site but I have chosen to use the re-post on Youtube because of if Youtube’s broader accessibility.
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Wonderful 2 minute explanation.
Observations, thoughts, musings….
Wave is what email would be today if it were created from scratch. Yes email has been around for over 40 years but most people have really only been using it for the last 5-10 years or less and it took them the 5-10 years to get used to it so a change–even if it is a good one may not be that welcomed.
