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The silos start to tumble.

Learning with e's

I have visions of midnight raids on unsuspecting farms and torrents of grain falling down from monstrously huge (and protected) storage areas. Tags: Lisbon e-portfolios EDEN. The one that really gets my attention though is entitled 'breaking down the sectoral silos'. The question for consideration is 'what impact has Web 2.0

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Lets go ahead and solve the future of publishing right now.

Mark Oehlert

Turns out that there is this site, Textbook Torrents, that is using BitTorrent to distribute free copies of expensive textbooks. Posted by: boete hypotheek | March 16, 2009 at 01:50 AM I predict an outcome similar to Napster for sites like Textbook Torrent. If you find something, just tag it with kurt+lewin to add it to the mix.

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Weapon of mass detraction

Learning with e's

Very quickly the harsh comments began to pop up on the Twitter stream, and very soon they became a torrent of abuse, disparaging remarks that took on a more and more personal hue, turning the event into a 'car crash keynote'. Tags: wisdom of crowds tweckling harshtag conference backchannel danah boyd Twitter.

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Keen as mustard?

Learning with e's

No, I am not making it up - but I thought, how very appropriate, given the wintry torrents of rain outside. Tags: Andrew Keen social software Web 2.0 Would you believe it. inside they were playing Cliff Richard singing 'O Little Town of Bethlehem! ' and suggests that it's a conspiracy to destroy our culture and assault our economy.

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): The Tool Kit Edition

Mark Oehlert

Design (via CSS Juice ) GoWare (personal mobile portal) Article on Bitlet (Bit Torrent extension for Firefox) via Webware Animoto looks very cool. If you find something, just tag it with kurt+lewin to add it to the mix. 100 websites you should know and use (via the TED Blog ) 13 Online Generators for Web 2.0

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning - Untitled Article

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Textbook torrents a-crashin’ - Abject Learning , September 11, 2009. Tags: metalearning. New Bloggers: Boost Your Chances of Success - You Learn Something New Every Day , September 25, 2009. Fatheads and centerfolds - The Thinking Meat Project , September 17, 2009. Do Social Networks Shape Our Lives ? Wirearchy , September 12, 2009.

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Re-orientation

Jay Cross

Now, the torrent of information generated by the ever increasing stream of new developments has rendered this impossible. Tags: Just Jay. Alas, we are all babes in the woods of the world wide web. There’s so much flowing through the pipes and there are so many new pipes that old methods of keeping up no longer work very well.

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