Yesterday evening a threesome of which I was part facilitated a webinar in the frame of the Curriculum Social Media for Learning & Change in which we all participate. Since we had used BigMarker a few times already (as participants, not as facilitators though) we decided to try something else for a change. We came up with a combination of Skype and SynchTube, since we wanted to watch videos together, [full post]
Who doesn’t know them, those mildly irritating requests to type up the letters of a small picture in order to log in somewhere. I knew they are useful as they ensure the site we are logging in to that we are humans instead of spam-bots. So they will know that we really want to buy those tickets, post a comment, etc. But today I learned there is much more behind [full post]
There must have been a time when people were genuinely enthusiastic to attend conferences. Nowadays, however, people are sometimes complaining about having to go as conferences are increasingly seen as talkshops that do not contribute to getting your own work done. The conference is of course fighting back bravely, by having interactive, participatory programmes instead of one key note after another. Still, in order to convince potential participants, it is [full post]
