Category Archives: edtech

Free Culture

Posted on February 19, 2007 by Alvin Trusty

If you haven’t watched/listened to Lawerence Lessig, here is a presentation that is worth your time. http://randomfoo.net/oscon/2002/lessig/free_culture.swf  (Flash) http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/policy/2002/08/15/lessig.html  (HTML) The presentation can be summed up in the refrain of a song that he wrote for the presentation. Creativity and … Continue reading →

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Tagging and Tag Clouds

Posted on February 2, 2007 by Alvin Trusty

Here’s an interesting report from PEW on tagging.  In Decemeber of last year they found that 28% of Internet users are taggers and 7% of us tag on a daily basis.  If you are familiar with del.icio.us, you are probably … Continue reading →

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MediaWiki

Posted on January 24, 2007 by Alvin Trusty

http://www.mediawiki.org A lot of my students are using WikiPedia as a resource.  That’s not necessarily a bad thing, but many of them do not understand exactly why it could be problematic.  I feel the best way to understand how a … Continue reading →

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Scuttle

Posted on January 11, 2007 by Alvin Trusty

http://scuttle.org/ Everyone has heard of del.icio.us.  I use it to keep track of my bookmarks that I want to share with other people.  But what if I could have my own del.icio.us server?  Then I could do projects with groups … Continue reading →

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Squeak

Posted on November 29, 2006 by Alvin Trusty

Next semester I will be teaching a multimedia course.  Most of the course focuses on Flash, but we start with some very basic programs.  Squeak is one of those programs.  Squeak is a graphical programming interface based on the SmallTalk … Continue reading →

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