Jeff McNeill

Are You Paying Attention?

Posted in education, mobile, policy, web2.0, wiki on May 15th, 2007

Distance Education and Virtual Worlds — Some Issues

Posted in education, opencontent, opensource, secondlife, simulation, video, visualization, web2.0, wiki on Apr 15th, 2007

A student asked me some questions about distance education and virtual worlds, and I provided the following basic impressions (light on links, lets just get this posted for now). I think that research into the actual stats and studies would be of more help. Check out AERA and Horizon Report, and other distance ed stuff [...]

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The Problem with Wikipedia

Posted in web, wiki on Mar 4th, 2007

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"We don’t build websites anymore…"

Posted in opencontent, opensource, visualization, web2.0, wiki on Feb 17th, 2007

This is an important, if hyperbolic, statement as it relates to how we understand, and help mentor our students in terms of website design and development.
My current understanding is that websites, instead of being “designed” and “coded” as in the days of old, are now becoming more like collections of one or more of the [...]

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Blogs, blogging, bloggerific, blogtastic

Posted in applications, programming, web2.0, wiki on Feb 6th, 2007

Okay, so maybe this post is trite, redundant, or worse, but I am getting weird looks when I tell people that we “don’t build websites anymore” and I am being studiously ignored in my suggestions and recommendations to create blogs and wikis. I am not sure people know what a blog _is_ (or what I [...]

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