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mLearning: Mobile Phone Enabled Learning for Developing Countries

via knowledgelens.msloc.northwestern.edu Kudos to Jenni Parker for this! http://jenniferparker.posterous.com/ Permalink | Leave a comment  »

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Crowdsourcing Coverage of Emergencies & Global Events: Irene

via Metatalk @ Metafilter I love observing people and the practice of ethnography.  I love eavesdropping.  I love being a fly on the wall.  I love first-hand accounts of anything. Which means that...

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Hurricane Irene Tracking Map

via nytimes.com Impressive data visualization of the path of Hurricane Irene. Animation in real time with Category changes and what that means regarding wind speed. Nicely done. [Postscript:  If you...

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Interactive Rube Goldberg Wall for Learning Physics

via vimeo.com Just when I thought Frigits couldn't get any cooler (we LOVE them at our house!). Two students at Stanford have created an interactive Rube Goldberg wall leveraging the popular Frigits...

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Can You teach You how to do something? [JMO]

  It's hard to get little kids to wash their hands. But who better to model hand hygiene for a toddler than the toddler herself?  A generic sign can quickly be forgotten, but in a riff on social...

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Soil-less sky farming: rooftop hydroponics

via faircompanies.com Enjoying the multilingual eco-DIY hub faircompanies.com which pulls together videos, instructions, plans, and news for creating and using your own solutions for sustainability....

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GSA Sustainable Facilites Tool

via sftool.gov My friend and colleague Michael Bloom at the General Services Administration has a cool new tool for government facilities to encourage and support the use of better technology and...

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The Maker Revolution in Chicago

via diy-film.com “We are do-it-yourselfers teaching ourselves and learning on our own,” he said. “We are working on things for the general public, not just catering to people already in the movement-...

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BankSimple's iPhone App Aims To Reimagine Your Money

via fastcodesign.com Aligning interfaces with how people actually think about a topic? Yes, that is what learning designers and UX people do. Permalink | Leave a comment  »

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