What do I think? You Choose.

06.18.10 Posted in Media, Moxley, Social Media, education, elearning by Shelley

After reading The Future of Thinking: Learning Institutions in a Digital Age and “The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age,” I was left feeling extremely optimistic and extremely frustrated. There were so many things to like about these reports, yet I found myself raging against many of the points the authors made. The [...]


A Matter of Perspective

06.02.10 Posted in Moxley, Reading, Social Media, collaboration, education by Shelley

In “Why Heather Can Write,” Henry Jenkins (2006) writes, “Gee’s focus is on the support system that emerges around the individual learner, while Pierre Levy’s focus is on the ways that each learner contribues to the larger collective intelligence; but both are describing parts of the same experience…” (p. 192). This seems to be the [...]


Best Collaboration Tools

10.27.09 Posted in collaboration by Shelley

I have been looking for a good online collaboration doc share/edit and project management tool. I have used Buzzword in the past with good results, but unfortunately, Buzzword does not have group functionality where several members can have access to a number of documents in an organized way. So, in conducting a google search, I [...]