I am here to say what many of us were thinking but just haven’t said out loud — Google dropped the ball on Google Wave in such an enormous manner. When they recently pulled the plug on the Google Wave project, they took what could have been a tremendous tool to help people learn and teach and they threw it all away.
Continue reading → Why Did Google Wave Crash? Should We Care?
We have been happily and intensively using Google Wave over the past week and we are impressed with its promise and engineering.
Continue reading → Google Wave: Blackboard and Basecamp Killer
Blackboard teamed up with Acxiom Identify-X to verify students in an online course:
Acxiom Identify-X
periodically and randomly presents challenge questions to students
before launching a course assessment. Questions are based only on
public information and institutions choose the courses and assessments
where identity verification is required. This fully hosted, Web-based
solution prompts a student to enter only their name and address.
Institutions set randomization and pass/fail thresholds, and
instructors receive notifications when student identity cannot be
verified.
The Lesson of the Singing Bowl is one of my favorite articles. Today, I will share with you another story taught to me by my Indian yoga guru — The Lesson of the First Number — where I learned about intent, self-determination, and divination.
I added some detail to make the story my own so I could share it with you here.
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