CogBlogged from ‘January, 2007’

In some ways this is part two of the “walking the tools” rant. I still see a rather low awareness of the power of making use of creative commons licensed content ad I put out the call to fellow edubloggers to be more vigilant on demonstrating the use of CC content…. and being a model of providing overt attribution. It is such a pay-it forward thing that, to me, is not yet over the hump of critical mass. So first a story. This comes on the heels of some blog post/comment exchanges with Beth and a decision to make by CC licensing simpler and more clear by jumping to the “By” Attribution. So far, it’s been a month, and I have yet to be exploited by a Big Company. This started when Tim Lauer noted a photo of my satellite internet dish was used in a post over at infinite [...]

I confess I am a web tool junkie. Surely everybody who’s had to deal with me on a project was heard something like, “why don’t we use a wiki for that?” or “why not tag the resource links on del.iciou.us?” or “ewwww, a listserv, that is so 1980s”. It’s a reflex, likely annoying. If I am doing a presentation about some technology, 99% of the time I am trying to figure out a way to use that technology as the presentation platform– like October;s one for the K12 Online Conference — can it really make sense to talk about a virtual world application by bullet slides in PowerPoint? Ugh. So, I remain firm that as educational technology leaders, we need to show the way by actions, experiment, draw others in to the tool corral at Ed Tech Home Depot. Yet, I am taken back how often people I would envision [...]