24 hours of Flickr

http://blog.flickr.com/flickrblog/2007/04/its_coming_24_h.html

What an utterly fascinating event. On 5th May people around the world photograph their lives, to share the images of their day with the community.

Now, if we could have such a day across Universities of the world, sharing the curriculum. Wouldn't it be fascinating to see how the different countries teach the same subject?

Viral Marketing

I really do feel naive sometimes. I thought viral marketing was a nasty conniving scheme and what do I realise by chatting to an expert and having a quick gander on Wikipedia?

It's a big market.

GoViral for example. I may disagree, and in fact, a marketing company like that might actually make me feel rather sick, but I am at the same time truly fascinated.

Because ... what could this mean for education? because let's face it: everything means something for education - we just have to figure out what, and where, and how, and if we even want it.

Should I say "Hello World"?

Or would that be a very washed-out echo of Michael Wesch's brilliant video The machine is us/ing us?

Anyway, I shall talk about things that I discover along the journey out of the box - the VLE box in Higher Education.

Today I uploaded my first Excel sheet to be collaborated on with a friend and colleague. I am frankly amazed at what is possible, in a "kid in sweetie store" kind of way, and I'm not that old, I assure you.

Anyway, I have to work on the next session of a brand new module, and guess what, VLE, Web 2.0, CAA and goodness what else will feature.