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Phone-MP3 player convergence Dave points to the New York Times story on the Apple-Motorola deal. It's great this is happening so soon. It was inevitable. I think all the talk will be about the music for a while, but what really gets me excited are the possibilties for podcasting > especially educational stuff > especially corporate elearning. That's because the hardware has such a ubiquitous installed base. It's been tough to get companies to think about mobile learning when they picture earbuds and 15-year-olds. Enter the cell phone as a visual cue to a cultural cue and it starts making all kinds of sense to lots more prospective adopters. Distributed conversations about distributed conversations Here are some links on ideas like blogs as better conversation vehicles than message boards, small technologies loosely joined to form community spaces, and related stuff, mostly from education technology folks. This all ties into discussions here about a commenting feature for the OPML blogs that could be something entirely new, and about shouting greetings over the fence while we stay in our own yards (blogs). It seems like there's a unique opportunity with OPML for some kind of very creative convergence of blogs, blogrolls, comments, threaded discussion (which is nothing if not an outline, right?) and the instant outliner. Shoot, why not widen the net and consider that podcasts and their directories, and voice chat as comments to podcasts, have a place in the melting pot too? Aren't all the basic building blocks already here? http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=27338 You can read it by logging in as a guest. Moodle is my open source LMS of choice, and I think a good model for any active community of developers and users working together. You see ubergeeks posting to the forums right alongside teachers. Also very international. End users -- the students -- are not part of the community. They form their own individual communities in a more decentralized way. http://jade.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/cdb/2005/08/24/conversations/ http://www.weblogg-ed.com/2005/08/17#a3894 http://www.weblogg-ed.com/2005/08/18#a3901 http://corrie.edublogs.org/2005/08/19/cracker-barrels-rss-glue-and-lurkers/ http://www.fullcirc.com/weblog/2005/08/blogs-forums-us-and-them.htm http://support.journurl.com/users/admin/index.cfm?mode=article&entry=3373 http://jade.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/cdb/2005/08/16/distributed-conversations/ |
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