Swellr
Welcome to Swellr: “What is Swellr? Swellr is a socially conscious e-commerce marketplace that empowers citizens to fund education projects by shopping locally.”
Year: 2011
eduMOOC: Online Learning Today… and Tomorrow
eduMOOC: Online Learning Today… and Tomorrow: “The Center for Online Learning, Research and Service at the University of Illinois Springfield welcomes you to a Massive Open Online Class (MOOC) on “Online Learning Today…and Tomorrow.” It will begin June 27, 2011 and run for eight weeks. It is totally …
Colorado Learning Network: CoLearning's next iteration?
Colorado Learning Network | Home: “The CoLearning Network (CLN) will provide a community for collaborative learning and work. The network will feature: • Collective work space for projects • Support for work and learning not necessarily available within members’ own school districts • A calendar of network learning events, …
+Pool: A Floating Pool in the River For Everyone by Family and PlayLab — Kickstarter
+Pool: A Floating Pool in the River For Everyone by Family and PlayLab — Kickstarter: “BACKGROUND (and why we think this is a good idea) We started + Pool last June, during what seemed like one of the hottest summers of our lives. As a New Yorker, you spend …
Next.cc – Why design is important.
N E X T [ B E T A ] whatsnext: “NEXT.cc is an eco web that develops ethical imagination and environmental stewardship. NEXT.cc introduces what design is, what design does, and why design is important. It offers activities across nine scales- nano, pattern, object, space, architecture, neighborhood, urban, region, …
Skillshare — Classes to learn anything from anyone
Are we moving in this direction? Some of these topics are quite interesting, but I’m not sure how many people are going to want to pay for content that they can find elsewhere on the web for free. It does create an interesting market force for learning, though. …
I don't know what this is.
I haven’t blogged for quite some time. Not quite as long as some of the times I have been on hiatus, but long enough to know that I haven’t actually reflected upon or written down what was going on for too many days to have it be a coincidence. I …
What does cutting the cord look like? (No more DirecTV or Cable for me!)
I’ve been toying with the idea of cutting the cord for a couple of years now, but in the last week I finally pulled the trigger. No more DirecTV. No Cable Box. No high-priced DVR. Instead, I have cobbled together a solution that I think works extremely well for our …
Measure your Twitter Influence: All of it
Today I was given the assignment of measuring twitter influence. Here is what I did. All in all, it seemed to work well: I pulled the entire TwapperKeeper archive for the username (both @ mentions and mentions without the @) I went to The Archivist and looked at the analytics …