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Curation unintended consequences

A 2011 TED Talk with Eli Pariser, a pioneering online organizer,  reminds us how personalized web searches  limit what is uncomfortable for us to learn.  How do curation algorithms edit out to fit our “filter bubble” and then limit our perceptions of other...

Blog: Teaching with technology

Another chance to learn with a MOOC, a Moodle MOOC on WizIQ.  See a webinar called Teaching with Technology that tutors:  integration of the blog as a teaching tool. The challenge of participation using blogs to connect to get students excited about learning.  Very...

Why Abraham Lincoln Loved Infographics

Short New Yorker article about some origins of info graphics and why we like them today. Gareth Cook also compiles a best infographics series of books… there’s one just out ten days ago for best of 2013. (alas, appears not to be a app or eBook, though...

Ebook needs a “new word”: Slate

short article in Slate talking about how reading is something “new again” in the online communications revolution, and that “eBook” doesn’t really cover all that’s different and new. They want a different word: “CodeX”....