I just heard on BBC Radio’s Newshour (which annoyingly doesn’t have individual story archives on their web site) that the social networking site, Bebo, is sending messages composed by users to an earth-like planet from a telescope in the Ukraine. According to Alexa, Bebo is the 102nd most visited site in the world, the…
In honor of the essays by James Paul Gee and Scott McCloud that students in my Technologies and the Future of Writing course are reading for tomorrow: two great animations that ask us to consider the nature of digital texts, symbols, and the spaces in which both are presented. The first, Animator vs Animation,…
CommonCraft has released a new video, “Web Search Results in Plain English“:
The outstanding social bookmarking and annotating application, Diigo, has announced the release of Diigo Education. Designed in collaboration with educators from all grade levels, and with an eye toward the challenges of K-12 teachers gaining Diigo access in their classrooms, Diigo Education joins Edublogs and Voicethread with an education-specific side of an already robust…