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SXSW: Promote That Which is Awesome

Awesomeness will be going down in Austin, Texas come March 2009. I’m putting together a panel on technology in the classroom for an infamous conference called South by Southwest. My presentation’s called “Blackboards or Backchannels: The Techno-Induced Classroom of Tomorrow.” … Continue reading

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Berkman@10: Digital Natives & IRC

I wrote last night about implementing IRC in an educational setting. The topic is coming up right now in the Digital Natives discussion about technology’s role in the classroom, methodologically and physically. I think it’s quite funny though how most … Continue reading

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Berkman@10: IRC and the Dialogue of Education

I will say it: Berkman@10 is offering too many social tools for its audience. Twitter. IRC. A democratic question display. And then there’s Flickr, Second Life, and the live webcasts. At one point, I was watching a streaming live video … Continue reading

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