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Free Culture vs. Proprietary Culture on Intellectual Property Rights

July 3rd, 2010

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The New World of Creative Commons Licensing…

I didn’t realize the ramifications of this new territory that is overtaking the technology landscape around the world. Licensing is all about protecting the rights of those who create value that benefits others. Licensing came about principally through the proprietary culture which seeks protection for the sake of money. Now comes along a free culture seeking the same protections for its creations that are distributed for free to ensure that no one else can take those creations and ‘sell’ them to others in one form or another, for personal gain.

With the advent of mashup APIs, this can get complicated because » More: Free Culture vs. Proprietary Culture on Intellectual Property Rights

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Tags: Anna Karenina Application programming interface copyleft copyrights Creative Commons IBM intellectual property Microsoft Open source OpenOffice.org Publishing

From Consumer-based to Experience-based to Relationship-based: The Networked Economy

February 9th, 2010

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Our industrial economy was driven by consumer demand not so many decades ago. But with affluence comes increased competition for top-of-mind awareness and consumers were sold “experience” as the new status symbol. Walking into work with a Starbucks cup in hand became a statement of status for many.

Social conversation evolved from talking about what we bought or owned to what we did, experienced, or enjoyed. Previously we sold steak because it sizzled. Now we sell steak because » More: From Consumer-based to Experience-based to Relationship-based: The Networked Economy

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Tags: business Facebook Linkedin Marketing Social Media Social network Web 2.0

6 Ways to Use Twitter as a Listening Device…

February 4th, 2010

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The Internet was originally designed to be a military communication tool (Arpanet) and transitioned to becoming as well, a storage device or repository for University researchers. As the world wide web evolved for the rest of us, email became the communication choice du jour and the ’90s witnessed a slew of tools and applications for improving our two way communication and archival needs related to the electronic mail phenomenon. Even text messaging on a mobile phone is a development created to more ubiquitously enable and empower this two way conversation need of us social creatures.

Web 2.0 (Social Web) created new platforms for multi-user (beyond two-way) communication that could be both synchronous and asynchronous. Subscribing-to, befriending, and following status updates on platforms such as Facebook, Myspace, Ning Networks, and the like, have allowed for new spaces of communication to emerge. These new spaces resided in a specific place or page where aggregated communiques could be archived.

Twitter is a unique development that allows for the pure mind-surfing thought feeds provided by the status update feature of former platforms. Rather than providing a new space for interactive communication, Twitter provided a portal for calls to action. Whereas the crowd has been gathering in so many “spaces” (Ning, LinkedIn, etc), Twitter is not space-centered but » More: 6 Ways to Use Twitter as a Listening Device…

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Posted in Education, Futurism, Internet, Media, Social Media, Technology, pedagogy

Tags: Add new tag Facebook Linkedin Mobile phone MySpace Ning Social network Twitter World Wide Web

My Experiences in Port-au-Prince, Haiti …

January 25th, 2010

A typical Haitian family and all their worldly goods.

The wafting smoke from heaps of smoldering trash greets visitor to Haiti. Baby Doc Duvalier was the dictator during my first visit in 1984. The dreaded Toto Makut (Duvalier’s feared secret police force) were in charge back then. During my next few visits, » More: My Experiences in Port-au-Prince, Haiti …

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Posted in Education, Media, Simple Living

Tags: Haiti Jean-Claude Duvalier port-au-prince

Redefining-the-wireless-experience (video) … Teachers prepare!

January 25th, 2010

The ubiquitous access to real-time data streaming will augment every facet of our daily lives from travel to shopping, from education to communication. Get ready. We’re on a collision course.

Watch the video below » More: Redefining-the-wireless-experience (video) … Teachers prepare!

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Posted in Education, Futurism, Internet, Media, Social Media, Technology, pedagogy

Tags: Add new tag Education future Real-time computing Research and Analysis Technology trends Web Design and Development

The decade according to 9-year-olds. Watch this video for an educational perspective of technology

December 28th, 2009

Tue Dec 8, 8:51 pm ET

So much has defined this past decade, but imagine what it would be like if the past 9 years were the only years you had lived through. Yahoo! News editor Allison Louie-Garcia spoke to fourth graders in Orange County, Calif. to get some perspective on the ’00s from those who have only experienced it. From naming the biggest celebrities, to discussing computer habits, to explaining 9/11, these 9-year-olds’ answers–often funny, sometimes sobering, always candid–offered a clear snapshot of life in the 21st Century.

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Special thanks to Ms. Lim and her wonderful 4th grade class.

via news.yahoo.com

Here’s a nifty interview of some West coast children and their ideas of the world from their 9 year old perspective.

A great lesson plan idea for teachers, no? Students consider what questions to ask, interview their peers, and record their answers. Would be interesting to map the trends of greatest hopes and biggest fears among various age groups.

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Posted in Critical Thinking, Education, Environment, Futurism, Internet, Media, Social Media, Sustainability, Technology, environmentalism

Tags: 21st century learning children perspectives Technology

Libraries Evolving into Laboratories of Synergistic Learning through “Trends” as Information Commons.

December 17th, 2009

libraries seem to be evolving into laboratories of synergistic learning through “trends” as information commons.

via chronicle.com

I like this definition of libraries in light of how technology is transcending traditional space-time barriers within which they have existed. Technology is stretching the “boxes” outside of which we think; even eliminating the box altogether. Was it ever 2 dimensional anyway? Think outside the cube. Think outside the orb. Transcend the metaverse of space-time. The human spirit – the final frontier?

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Tags: future information overload Knowledge Management libraries Technology trends

What are Educational Technologist Leadership Competencies?

December 1st, 2009

The cool possibilities about the more than 200 real-time web 2.0 tools under development (Like Google Wave) is that sync and async are being melded together along with multi-dimensional communication tools such as voice, text, image, video, etc.

When semantic web becomes the standard (searchable text becomes recognizable object) then tagging and bookmarking values will be reduced and personal and group collections will become more useful.

Such collections will not simply consist of some items “saved” to another location, but more likely will consist of “searched” items and “pointed to” results. http://popurls.com is demonstrating the real-time value of aggregating crowd sourced and theme specific topics. Studying such real-time results can be a great source of discussion for critical thinking development.

The most important quality for Ed Tech leaders is to understand trends and adapt their craft to emerging innovations. Higher education may do students a disservice by focusing too much on tool techniques and too little on trend research.

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Tags: Critical Thinking Education future pedagogy Technology web2.0