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Page from Flypmedia (click to enlarge)

Here’s another one from the category of learnable media.  Shared by David Weinberger, via Twitter1 this afternoon,  Flypmedia is a slick and highly interactive magazine.  Leafing pages, as old as the technique is, still makes me yearn for the perfect e-reader device.  It just makes my laptop feel so behind […]

It is customary for us to suggest books for summer reading during the few weeks that many educators have to retool and re-energize.

Two books have had me almost totally engrossed over the past several weeks, preventing me from spending the time I should with more professional explorations.  They are both fairly dramatic departures from the […]

I use to write a lot about the possibilities of fully digital and networked textbooks (or what ever we’ll call them).  My ideas were largely speculative — from my own limited imagination.  But now, it seems that just about every day I run across some new web application or service that yells at me, “This […]

I’m waiting here for a Skype call from a client who wants me to talk with their art and music teachers about 21st century skills and the creative arts. While waiting, decided to scan through my aggregator and ran across this reference from Smart Mobs about two recent video blogs by Howard Rheingold, including […]

A recent report (Ready to Innovate/pdf) from The Conference Board and Americans for the Arts, in partnership with the American Association of School Administrators (AASA), reminds us that creativity, and integral part of innovation, is among the top five skills that will become more important over the next five years.  Yet, according to their survey, […]

Screen Shot of Hitchhikr

It’s sure been nice to be at home for the past week.  With only a few virtual events on my calendar last week, I’ve been retiring to and rising from my own bed for the past seven days — and this trend will continue, as May is always a slow month for […]

For those who are not aware, ThinkQuest is part competition, part instructional project, part mob-sourcing, and entirely one of the most exciting things for teachers and learners on the Internet — for the past 10+ years.  Originally the brainchild of Advanced Network & Services president, Al Weis, and now run by the Oracle Education Foundation, […]

Screen shot of Measuring Informational Distance

I’m not sure what value it would be to your daily classroom or school management task.  The term, Google Platonic Distance, is an invention of a Barcelona group called bestiario.  They use a combination of art, design, and scientific computation to generate useful visualizations of vast information sets and complex […]