» by liam April 27, 2008 at 10:35 am » Comments (0)

With the arrival of ning.com, creating social networks is as easy as creating an email account. I find places like Facebook too broad in their focus for an online network. ...more »

» by liam April 23, 2008 at 11:04 am » Comments (0)

Writing this as I run out the door: Heading out to finally see the totally cool looking new documentary, Second Skin as part of Toronto's equally cool Hot Docs festival. After ...more »

» by liam April 21, 2008 at 10:44 am » Comments (2)

Last Friday marked the end of my classes at OISE's Bachelor of Education program, but I'm not done with my teacher training or talking to teachers. In addition to a month-long ...more »

» by liam April 16, 2008 at 5:36 pm » Comments (0)

School board bans mobile devices "Trustees last night approved a new policy that prohibits students from using cellphones and other personal electronic devices (PEDs) such as mp3 players during the school ...more »

» by liam April 9, 2008 at 8:51 am » Comments (3)

Virtual Worlds 2008 has come and gone and while I spent the weekend wrapping up some writing projects and searching in vain for a feed/stream/webcast of the conference, the who's ...more »

» by liam April 5, 2008 at 2:58 pm » Comments (3)

There is a great discussion going on over at Shaping Youth (starting with this post and then this one) and Izzy Neis about the possibilities of eco-education in kids' virtual ...more »

» by liam April 3, 2008 at 11:09 am » Comments (2)

The auditorium on ISTE Island was packed last night, with a maximum of 74 avatars gathered to hear online community pioneer Howard Rheingold talk about his Social Media Virtual Classroom ...more »

» by liam April 2, 2008 at 11:49 am » Comments (0)

The big telcoms practice of traffic shaping, controlling how fast your internet connection is, finally makes the news today with this report from CBC. I'm not even sure if that ...more »

» by liam April 1, 2008 at 11:07 am » Comments (0)

Thanks [yet again!] to my twitter network, I learned about the Subcommittee meeting of the US Congress, Online Virtual Worlds: Applications and Avatars in a User-Generated Medium, (archived video ...more »