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Experiments In Collaborative ePublishing
40 days ago I posted here on this blog that I wanted to try something different for the publication of my next ebook: Instead of going over the text myself over and over again, fixing broken syntax and hunting for typos (as an independent publisher I don’t have a room full of type-monkeys, unfortunately) I was…
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4 Quick Ways To Use (Social) Media In Foreign Language Teaching
Sometimes, taking a class to learn a language isn’t quite enough. For people that are moving to a new country and want to learn the native tongue of the land, a class or textbook might leave you in the dark when it comes to slang, idioms or figures of speech. For instance, students learning English…
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Carts Of Darkness [A Documentary]
Yesterday, I stumbled over a documentary called “Carts Of Darkness“. Superficially speaking it’s about men racing shopping carts down steep hills in Canada who also collect bottles and cans to make a living. While this may be reason enough to watch it (great shots of people racing shopping-carts at 70 km/h), there’s a lot more…
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Of Networked Societies And Broken Links
Today I want to share a little film with you by Ericsson that discusses the future (present?) reality of a networked society and interviews co-founders of Flickr, Soundcloud, the chief editor of Wired UK, and more. Despite the overused melody at the beginning (according to a youtube commenter it sounds like a bank commercial) and the…
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Learn Out Live! Weekly Digest
Is there no better day to do a weekly digest than Friday? Well, probably, yes – there is – there must be… But our week’s just too busy to deliver the goods earlier. Let’s hope that’s a good thing. So, without further ado… here’s our weekly retrospective: Zeitgeist Welcome To The Future: Envisioning Technology For…
