John Connell has written an excellent post about Cloud computing and the future of education and the web. He muses;
Since 2002, I have been boring anyone willing to listen to me that this would be the case one day - and the core idea behind Glow in Scotland is based on this fundamental premise - [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘John Connell’
November 20, 2008
The Future of Libraries.
September 30, 2008
Literacy for our age.
John Connell has written an excellent post, Literacy, Postliteracy, Modes of Expression….and a real Guitar Hero! that you really should read. In it, he muses over the notion of literacy and how it can be defined in our changing landscape. His post struck a chord with me; literacy, and our definition of it, was a frequent topic of discussion [...]
September 2, 2008
“…we have to work globally to stop the accreditation tail wagging the learning dog” - now that’s a quote to use and an idea to ponder.
John Connell is a Scottish blogger who I consider to be a mentor of mine. He thinks deeply about education and the direction we are headed in. I always feel enriched after reading his blog; he writes well about important issues facing education. He was kind enough to leave a comment on my previous post which [...]
July 30, 2008
Dinner with John and Jan
I was really fortunate Tuesday night to catch up with John Connell and his lovely wife Jan who were visiting Australia with Cisco, the company John works for. His job is Education Business Development Manager for the Emerging Markets - covering South America, the Caribbean, Africa, Middle East, Eastern Europe and Russia. John has been an encouraging mentor [...]
June 30, 2008
NECC - trying to keep up in the echo chamber.
I tried to stay up late last night to catch the happenings in Texas at NECC but by 1.00am my eyes were not cooperating. Urgently needed sleep so listened to my body and obeyed. Always wise!
Managed to catch a keynote live this morning Melbourne time. Wasn’t even aware they had scheduled a keynote for what would have been evening [...]
June 11, 2008
Viewzi - another new cool visual search engine.
On the back of yesterday’s post about Searchme comes the release today of Viewzi, a new visual search engine. I pity the poor software developers out there trying to hack their brains for new names that are going to stick! Like Searchme, the visual interface is intriguing. Viewzi opens up to a clean interface with a search [...]
February 26, 2008
Network power
I was exhausted last night when I finished writing yesterday’s post. Had about six hours sleep then had to get up early to take one of my kids to an early morning swim session. Arrived very early at work and logged on to check out the blog traffic. Wasn’t expecting much; who would be interested [...]
