reflect:ed #1 – Facebook and Education 2.0

Yesterday, I sent out the first edition of my new monthly newsletter reflect:ed to my subscribers and I want to take the time to say thank you to all of you for the support!

If you did not subscribe yet and therefore missed this one, don’t worry, I also offer an individual download of every edition.

Below you will find a little teaser of the current newsletter on Facebook and Education 2.0 and the link to purchase and download reflect:ed #1 of November 2010.

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eBay and Education 2.0

Ain’t it interesting how one single company can change things that remained unchanged for centuries before? If you ask people today “What is an online marketplace?” they will certainly answer “eBay, of course.”

But why do we call eBay a market place? I think there are two big differences that don’t really match the marketplace idea.

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Teacher Rockstars Part 1/3 – The Early Years

Since my presentation on the eduConference of eduFire.com about “Turning Teachers into Rockstars” I have been thinking about this picture. The more I thought about it, the more I found out that this is indeed a very good picture of what an online teaching carreer might look like.

So I decided to make a “documentary” about this. It will consist of three parts and we will follow a teacher Rockstar and his music making brother on their way to the top.

First Episode: The Early Years

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