Posts tagged internet
How To Use The Net To Escape The Net
Internet, the final frontier. Endless. Silent. Waiting. This is the story of our daily enterprise to seek out all relevant information and contact others like us. To explore. To travel the vast expanse of data, where no man has gone before… We have come to live in a world that is so technologically advanced…
How To Create A Simple Google Chrome App In Less Than 5 Minutes
If you take a look at Google’s “Web Store” many Google Chrome apps listed there are basically just quick ways to access web-pages. For example, the official Google Docs app does what? It opens docs.google.com. The Hootsuite app? It opens hootsuite.com/dashboard Etc. While that may defeat the purpose of an app (shouldn’t it be more than…
“Please Turn Off the Internet. It Scares Us.”
The “ultimate gothic high tech figure”, Nicolas Sarkozy has put himself at the front of a Lost War: To Civilize the Internet. That’s right. The War on the Internet as we know it. What was it again that Bruce Sterling had said about him? You’re Nicolas Sarkozy, you’re brilliant, you’re poly-ethnic, you have no ideology….
Will it Blend? Putting the Person Back in Personalized Online Learning Studies
For all the great advantages of online learning, there is one big downside, which is not necessarily the fault of online learning but of the way people relate to it: There exists a wide-spread deception that using tools can replace teaching or learning for that matter, and while few people would admit actually believing this, the…
Why the ‘Market’ Metaphor has Failed Us
One of the weird aspects of living in our times is this: The future is proving to us day by day that it has already arrived. While the past hasn’t completely left the stage, yet. So, who’s the star? No matter where you look, you’ll find this struggle in between the old and the new. Whether…
Green eLearning: From electronic to energy-efficient
Okay, let’s face it. From a literary perspective it might not be considered the greatest creative genius to simply add a lower case letter to a word in order to create a brand or product name. I don’t want to go into the endless reiterations of iPad, iPhone, iBook, eCommerce etc… we’re all more than…