Just stuff
Neptune comes to our home
It has been a busy time. We have had a lot going on. Our washing machine broke and so we bought a new one. We got a Maytag Neptune, which is just about the coolest washing machine I have ever seen. It came with a DVD on how to use it.
Edupodder
My Edupodder website has been pretty popular. After less than a week in existence, a Google search on "Edupodder" turned up 419 hits. [ This one is in the UK. ] There seems to be real interest in this technology in education.
I just finished the book The Innovator's Dilemma, by Clayton Christensen who said, "A key characteristic of a disruptive technology is that it heralds a change in the basis of competition." In his book, Clayton Christensen defines disruptive technology and discusses repeatedly how disruptive technologies have historically changed the paradigms of whole industries.
An example he often cites is the disk drive industry. According to Christensen the ability to develop smaller lighter disk drives that met the emerging needs of new markets ultimately disrupted the markets of the then established bigger disk drive industry. This happened despite the fact that, when smaller disk drives were introduced, the big drives then offered higher storage capacities, better performance, were cheaper per unit of storage, were more reliable and seemingly "better" than the smaller drives. The small drives had adequate performance and offered customers product possibilities that had previously not been available. New products and new markets were created.
Now, we take small laptop and notebook computers containing small disk drives for granted. So, what is one big advantage of podcasting in education? As in the small disk drive model, it may be portability.
Books and Movies
I am currently reading the book "We the media" by Dan Gillmore. It is a great book about weblogging. Lastly, we have just recently seen two movies from Netflix. We saw "Gangs of New York" and "Silent Running." I think Silent Running was much better.
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