TLDR

Will Richardson mentions this recently.

I have been thinking a lot about how learning objects like CLIPS can be precise and concise at the same time.

Did you get through all that?

What are students like in a Web 2.0 world?

Doug Peterson introduced me to Michael Wesch's video about Web 2.0 at the RCAC Symposium last year where it was used to introduce Will Richardson. Incidentally, I have heard that Will will be a featured speaker at the Ontario Association for Mathematics Education Annual Conference next May.

Wesch's videos explore mediated culture, seeking to merge the ideas of Media Ecology and Cultural Anthropology. He is currently working on an ethnography of YouTube.

Today, I was the two millionth person to see this video about what post-secondary students are like:



Here is the original video that I mentioned. It is a fantastic introduction to what Web 2.0 is (much better that Wikipedia's technical talk about CSS and APIs).

0.0 Posts per Week

As a new blogger, I feel a little put out when technorati or blogger statistics rate my output as somehow unsatisfactory. If you add a subscription in Google Reader and search for "mathfest" you get the statistic that inspired the title of this post. However, it has been a while since the last post. I have just finished a few days away at the "Making GAINS" symposium.

One of the plenary speakers was Will Richardson. We interviewed him afterwards and the seventeen-minute video nicely summarizes his message about how the Read/Write Web changes education.

We also have set up a wiki to record feedback. One of the pages has the collection of brilliant Common Craft videos that introduce RSS, blogging, wikis and social bookmarking.

How does 39 posts over 4 months work out to 0.0 per week?