Thanks to a colleague of mine, I have just caught wind of a new blog called Tomorrow’s Professor, which is worth highlighting for a few very important reasons.
According to the header, Tomorrow’s Professor is:
“A partnership between the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University to create a forum for comments and discussion about articles from the Tomorrow’s Professor Mailing List and about general issues concerning higher education”
This blog is significant for a few key reasons.
First, it is a collaborative effort between two recognised and highly respected institutions covering emerging issues …

Via Twitter just moments ago Joss Win posted a link to a version of Ivan Illich’s “Deschooling Society” that has been made available via digress.it.  Deschooling Society is available elsewhere on the web, however this is the first time I’ve seen it accompanied by the option to engage in discussion as well.  Importantly the discussion framework that is being used here is particularly powerful.
Digress.it is a plugin for WordPress that supports discussion at a far finer level than is traditionally available on most blogs.  Rather than limiting conversations to a …

Gina Minks recently created a CCK09 discussion group in FriendFeed. Inevitably this will become one of many different locations where students of the course meet to share, discuss and debate different aspects of the course, however I’m particularly looking forward to seeing what unfolds here since FriendFeed is not a tool I’ve really used in the past. I’ve known about it for some time, but never really thought much of it since I’ve been replicating its functionality elsewhere using a variety of other tools.
It’s an open group and …

Just in the last two days I’ve decided to make some fairly sweeping changes to the commenting system on this blog and have installed the Disqus Comment System. This video is a basic overview of what Disqus is, how you set it up (primarily from the standpoint of self-hosted WordPress blogs), as well as a discussion on the implications that the framework has for readers as well as site owners.
Disqus describes itself as:
“Disqus, pronounced “discuss”, is a service and tool for web comments and discussions. The Disqus comment system …

Gina Minks and I have been having an ongoing discussion this evening about FriendFeed versus Facebook and it’s re-ignited an old train of thought that I’ve been pondering for quite some time now.
By and large the bulk of the online conversations I engage in these days take place on Twitter.  Sure I blog, and I post comments elsewhere, but these tend to be fairly one-off threads.  I’ll write a post here and perhaps receive a comment or two in response every once in a while, but there is rarely many-to-many …