KerryJ’s Neotenous Tech

I am privileged to associate with some amazing people.  These leading lights share their knowledge and expertise generously, stir others into action and are passionate about improving their pedagogy and that of others.
But what of their learning journey?
I’ve found that some of these leading lights face the “prophet in his hometown” syndrome.  While on [...]

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The theory of digital natives (those younger than 30 being perfectly at ease with and heavy users of technology) is busted as far as Howard Rheingold is concerned — and he’s doing something about it.
A social networking and online communications educator since the 1980s, Howard Rheingold found that when he suggested the use of blogs, [...]

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Freesouls is a photo commons project that involves photos of thought leaders and their thoughts on sharing and learning.
It is now a group on slideshow, inviting people to share what they think a freesoul is.
It was enough to inspire me to finally set up a slide show account and make a submission.
Here is mine:
Freesoul
View SlideShare [...]

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A quick, handy how-to for Windows users.
Ever have someone send you a link via email and you copy and paste it into a browser and then can’t figure out how to download the thing?
Notepad to the rescue - (da-dada-daaaah)!

Open notepad
Create html linked text - <a href=”linkurl”>download this</a>
Save the text doc as a .html doc (select [...]

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Those who know me know that I have a cynical attitude towards hype in general and Apple hype in particular. So the iPhone hype and stories of people waiting in line for days have caused me to retreat from many social networking sites and RSS feeds until the storm dies down.
I am not a MS [...]

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