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This morning I came across a great post by Darren Draper entitled “My Twitterversary & the Future of Writing.“  Darren makes some really good points about the power of blog writing, and the unfortunate results of services like Twitter. 
About the power of blogging and potential to help writing he says:
“Let me begin by saying [...]

Yesterday Steve Hargadon published an article entitled “Web 2.0 is the Future of Education” that every educator should read. Here are a couple of excerpts”
“I believe that the read/write Web, or what we are calling Web 2.0, will culturally, socially, intellectually, and politically have a greater impact than the advent of the printing press. [...]

A good friend of mine, Cary Gillenwater, sent me two articles published in this months’ NewScientistTech about haptics. One is for feeling the weather and the second Remote Robot Control that I thought I would pass on. Good stuff to add to our page of things you can do with haptics.

“Weather map interface lets [...]

A couple of days ago I wrote about a new twitter-like service designed especially for educators, called Edmodo. They posted a little screencast today. Looks promising:

Edmodo Screencast Teaser from Jeff O’Hara on Vimeo.

For those of you who have been following the Second-Life alternative, Croquet, you will be interested to know that a new (very early) release of the next build, Cobalt is now available. You can download it here.
You can read more about the new build here. The graphics are much improved and the interface also looks [...]

The whole review deserves a look, but I especially like the part below.

This is so true. If we don’t get behind this device and push it, it may just fade into the background as something that was a great idea, but never got off the ground..

Last week I linked to a great article about using Twitter in the classroom.  Today I saw a new service that is in Beta right now that is a twitter-like web app specifically designed for the Classroom…  Edmodo.  I was not able to get in, but you can see some screenshots here. 
It promises to [...]

So a colleague of mine asked if I had come across any unique uses of the Wii… I had indeed and thought I would post my findings here as well. Here are the video’s. Isn’t it AMAZING! (Note: The first three are from Johnny Chung Lee at Carnegie Mellon University and the [...]

A couple of months ago I heard about a monkey that could control a computer with their brain.  Here is a video. 

Of course this required implanted electrical nodes in the monkey’s brain and months, if not years, of learning the monkey’s brain-waves and then mapping them. Not really possible for humans yet.
Then [...]