The funny thing about this is I was helping to put together a web site infortention.com As another person was moving from the test site to the real site, he got several 404 page not found errors and he panic. But this is also about looking at your business and making it better.
This is from the internal site.
“This is not right — blogging within an LMS. I would much prefer to blog on my own blog and then be able to subscribe (RSS) to some of the students. Obviously with so many, it would not be easy to do all, but being contained with this site defeats the purpose of blogging. So this post is also going to be on my own blog.
This is about my 10th MOOC, and I as very interested in how this was going to be presented. Most MOOC’s I am called a “lucker” because I do not choose to participate much in the “social” part. I read everything or watch the videos so I am getting something out of these classes. This is my choice usually or sometimes, it is just too overwhelming because of the number of students and the way forums and blogs like this are presented. I am having to agree with Lisa blog post on her own blog on “Leaving an open online class blogging within a closed system. “
“The parents in the room know that texting is actually the best way to communicate with your kids. It might be the only way to communicate with your kids.”
When Nancy Lublin started texting teenagers to help with her social advocacy organization, what she found was shocking — they started texting back about their own problems, from bullying to depression to abuse. So she’s setting up a text-only crisis line, and the results might be even more important than she expected.
Nancy Lublin is CEO and Chief Old Person at DoSomething.org, where she harnesses the extraordinary energy of teens and focuses it on issues they care passionately about.
“For someone who likes to talk about the virtues of disconnecting, the media critic Douglas Rushkoff seems surprisingly always on.”
Alex Pasternack has written a great article about Douglas Rushkoff. He talked to our Howard Rhiengold alumni group a few months ago and he is well worth listening to.
"Every time we made a mistake instead of having a witch hunt to find out who had caused the mistake we all got excited about how we fix the problem, and we didn't spend any time looking for who was responsible. Because if you spend your time looking for who caused the problem all you do is create an environment where people are scared to make any move unless they can be 100% sure that they are going to be right. Now when you are in pioneering territory there is no way you can be 100% sure that you are not going to come unstuck".