Episode 86: Your are the Center of the Universe
August 24th, 2007
This week, I presented at the Robeson County School district. This is a low-wealth district in an extremely rural part of North Carolina. I could look up all kinds of statistics that describe how out-of-the-way this place is. Yet, I told them, during my keynote, that they are at the center of the universe. There is no place that is any more at the center than they are, because they are connected to information grid, the information landscape — a place where geography simply doesn’t mean very much.
In this podcast, I interviewed Leroy Vincent of Rivervalley Middle School, and David Spain, with LuLu, an open source publishing firm in North Carolina.
Enjoy!
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1. University Update - Open &hellip | August 24th, 2007 at 1:03 pm
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2. 5000 a week! « Cali&hellip | September 16th, 2007 at 10:41 am
[…] 5000 a week! Published September 16th, 2007 2.0 , information literacy As I was getting back into exercising at the gym this morning, I listened to David Warlick’s latest podcast (August 24). While at the NECC conference in July, he interviewed one of the representatives from Lulu, the self-publishing company. As David explains in the podcast, he has sold many of his books through Lulu. The person he interviewed said they are now seeing 5000 new published materials per week. I’m not sure if that means books or articles or a picture or what. Any way you look at it, this is a lot of information being put all in one place! As the speaker said, this is 20,000 new things being uploaded per week. A lot of people have a lot of stuff to say! Talk about information overload! […]
3. Kayla | April 9th, 2008 at 10:09 pm
This was an interesting interveiw that had alot of information! Although it starts out slow it makes a good piont.
4. Beth Goodrich | July 27th, 2009 at 7:39 pm
I find it interesting that geography no longer separates learners from information. Research that once involved a drive to the library, a dig through the stacks, and a discovery that the journal/article was not available in that particular media center can now be done via the internet and databases that contain the same information in rural areas and in urban districts.
Open-source publishing also is a way for learners to share with one another their ideas and products without being filtered by a corporate medium.
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