All posts by Jeff Cobb
Pictures That Help Us Learn
I was putting together a presentation on social media and online learning recently and in doing so, wanted to come up with an example of how photo sharing might be used to support educational activity.
Continue readingBlog Action Day, 43 Things, and Personal Learning
As noted in an earlier posting, today is Blog Action Day, a day when bloggers all around the world will write about the environment. The point is to increase awareness, cultivate involvement, and raise
Continue readingHappiness is an Exercise
It’s Friday, are you happy? Can you learn to be happier? Try out a couple of exercises suggested at Life Two and find out. (Life Two is a destination for those of us who are middle-aged, but I think
Continue readingE-Collaboration Experiences: A Collection of Stories
Moodle, TeamSpeak, PBwiki, and a range of other tools are highlighted in a new collection of stories about e-collaboration experiences from IICD and PSO. But first: Blog Spottings and other News My posting
Continue readingBornstein, Kawasaki, Changing the World
Last week Guy Kawasaki did a brief interview with David Bornstein, who has recently updated his book How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas. Given that my previous posting
Continue readingOER – Open Educational Resources
The catalyst for this particular post is the recent launch by Creative Commons of ccLearn, a division of Creative Commons, “dedicated to realizing the full potential of the Internet to support open
Continue readingNonprofit Web Windfall at Work
A look at how a small nonprofit might have taken more advantage of social media to promote and extend a recent event. First: Relevant to my main post today, I noticed on The Bamboo Project that Marketing
Continue readingBlog Day
I noted last Friday that I do not usually post on Friday’s and then proceeded to do so. A habit may be forming, for today I was reminded by Michele Martin at The Bamboo Project that it is Blog Day,
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