Social shopping gains steam, says David Gelles on the FT Tech Blog. Not only in the niche sector of virtual worlds people discuss the fact that online shopping does not need to be a solitary…
Second Life is moving towards the web. Linden Lab, the company behind the virtual world, announced that various times but now actually starts delivering. First, there is a new viewer, which is…
At least, that’s what Brian Solis concludes. It somehow corresponds with my personal experience now. While I’m still heavily using Twitter (for the newspaper I work for and on the personal…
I’ve been reading an interesting article by Adam Cohen in The New York Times, What’s Hot on This BBC Podcast? The Siege of Munster (1534-35). Cohen recommends (rightly so) “In Our Time†a popular…
Learning in 3D – it is the title of a very recent book by professors Tony O’Driscoll and Karl Kapp, and in fact the title continues to explain that such learning can add a new dimension…
(Archive) New Connectivism “Course†in the making
 (Archived post, 2-26-2009) (Global map of the connectivism & connective knowledge course. Flickr picture Fleep Tuque, Creative Commons License) This year there will be once again a Connectivism Course, starting in September. Last year Connectivism and Connective Knowledge was a twelve week course that explored the concepts of connectivism and… Continue reading
(Archive) Connectivism Course in Second Life
(archived post, 8-25-2008) I signed up for the Second Life Cohort of people attending a course about Connectivism. The social tools used as well as the content of the course seem very interesting. The content: allow me to quote the course wiki: Connectivism and Connective Knowledge is a twelve week… Continue reading