Learn to Adapt

• enterprise 2.0 … it’s this simple, see « pm blog - Mazy Hedayat posts a deliciously complex and confusing diagram that summarizes all the moving parts of Enterprise 2.0. A bit tough to read or use for learning, but it is a great summary…
• Why Companies Need Web 2.0 - Forbes.com - No new news here, but Mike Schaffner summarizes how "Web 2.0" (cringe) technologies must be adopted by companies to remain competitive.
• Tear down the broadcast towers - BuzzMachine » Blog Archive - Jeff Jarvis posits on how Web video and radio "could" make broadcast obsolete. Best part of the post is the comments. The way we consume media is changing dramatically and it will impact how we use media to teach.
• Grockit - About Us - Learning 2.0 - From the site: "Grockit is Learning 2.0. Grockit is about questioning together. To this end, we are developing an online learning game where people can teach each other." I look forward to seeing the game!

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• Disney.com Breaks New Ground Streaming Full-Length Movies Online for the First Time Ever - Distribution models for media continue to evolve: "The full-length films will then be available for free streaming on Disney.com (www.Disney.com/WonderfulWorld) for the week following the network presentation."
• Is Google Making Us Stupid? - Nicholas Carr in The Atlantic makes an interesting assessment of "What the Internet is doing to our brains".
• LearnHub Relaunches Its Social Learning Network - Jason Kincaid gives an update on LearnHub and other sites trying to leverage Web 2.0 social concepts for learning.

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These are my links for May 8th through May 9th:

• Viral Music Video Created Using Surveillance Cameras - Now that is an enterprising and innovative young band!
• The Evolving Web of Future Wealth: Scientific American - Stuart Kauffman hypthesizes that "the web of connections among goods and services in an economy may be the long-missing key to understanding how novel innovations and new wealth arise."
• A Seismic Shift in Epistemology (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE CONNECT - Chris Dede explores how "Web 2.0 is redefining what and how and with whom we learn." An intersting dip into the wiki driven definition of knowledge. He touches on many good points but skips across the power of the Web as "ancillary brain".

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These are my links for April 14th through April 15th:

• WatchingTV Online - Blog I just discovered tracking the move of television to the Web. If their theme is correct, this will be a "threat to big media". No saying how the convergence game will play out, but converge we will!
• The Mobile Web Was Born Only Yesterday - I agree wholeheartedly with Michael: "So I disagree that The Mobile Web is dead. For many of us it is just coming alive." Just look at the use of mobil outside the US. The future of the Web is a mobile one.
• Social Aggregators Emerge To Manage Digital Lifestyles [Dion Hinchcliffe’s Web 2.0 Blog] - Dion's wonderfully brief post about the rise of social aggregation. This HAD to happen as social fatigue sets in. These will be a model for the future of managing one of our auxillary brains (our social graph(s))

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These are my links for February 27th:

• 12 Screencasting Tools For Creating Video Tutorials - Its been around for ages, but you can't argue with quick, simple, and effective. If you have to teach (or better yet EPSS) folks computer applications, screencasting is effective and cheap. This great lists includes FREE tools (for great ROI).
• Visualizing Information for Advocacy: An Introduction to Information Design | Tactical Technology Collective - Presentation is everything: "This project aims to raise awareness, introduce concepts, and promote good practice in information design – a powerful tool for advocacy, outreach, research, organization and education."
• Extend Your Brain With Evernote - This isn't open to the public yet, but it is another example of how Internet (Web) technology is changing the way we learn and remember. Einstein was joking when he said "I never remember anything I can lookup". Still a joke?

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