IBM Web 2.0 Goes to Work for business – Web 2.0 Library.

IBM gets it, now, when will universities get it?

Apprehending the Future: Emerging Technologies, from Science Fiction to Campus Reality (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE.

A worthwhile article from Bryan Alexander … lots to think about here — beyond technology.

Liberal Education Today : Conference Participants Discuss Geospatial Literacy in the Liberal Arts.

I think this is the beginning of something that will only grow as more devices become spatially aware and more people begin to experiment with the technology.

How Google Wave could transform journalism | Technology | Los Angeles Times.

Collaborative notebooks will find lots of uses in education, training and business.

Opening Up Education – Table of Contents – The MIT Press.

An excellent resource, available as a series of pdf’s.

I must admit that sometimes, I’m overwhelmed by how much material for learning is available through the web.  I’m torn between my desire to read it and keep up, and my need to have a life away from the computer!

A report from the “…the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities (APLU) and the Sloan National Commission on Online Learning, which gathered survey responses from more than 10,700 faculty members and 231 interviews with administrators, professors, and students at APLU institutions.”

Over at The Chronicle, you can follow the discussion on this.

When courses were first put on line, the students reported that the best thing about them was that the content was better organized. I suspect that’s still the case.

Good teaching is good teaching, on-line or off.

WordPress + Education = ScholarPress

ScholarPress is a hub for developing WordPress plugins for Education. It’s that simple. So far we’ve developed Courseware, a course management tool to publish your class schedule, assignments, and bibliography to accompany your blog. There’s also WPBook, which can embed your WordPress blog into Facebook and create an application that students can add. Check it out.

Now, this is getting interesting.

ThinkQuest : Think.com, Oracle Education Foundation, Projects | Competition | Library.

Very useful website supported by Oracle and free to accredited k-12 schools.

RE*VISIONING K-12 STUDENTS TODAY

via iConnect iLearn in the 21st Century – Partially Funded Through Project Connect.

Interesting projects in Kansas — home to Podstock.

“It’s easy to say that technology is just a tool or that the technology needs to be invisible, but actually making that happen is harder than just saying it.”

via What’s the purpose of going 1:1 « The Thinking Stick.