Like so many before me, I was sidetracked during a trip to YouTube. You had assigned a viewing of the YouTube video featuring Richardson explaining why blogs are powerful for life-long learning. Well anyway, I saw on the side a lecture by a man named Alex Wright entitled "The Web that Wasn't". The lecture examined what the internet would have been like if it were founded by a different group of pioneers. With piles of course work to do for class, I found myself listening to his lecture in its entirety.
My search for Alex Wright Podcasts led me to the Long Now Foundations website http://www.longnow.org/. This organization was established to foster thinking about the long-term direction that we are headed in. They have a series of seminars called SALT seminars (Seminars About Long-term Thinking). http://www.longnow.org/projects/seminars/SALT.xml This series of podcasts features lots of topics and they are not all necessarily about education, but many are. I am looking forward to listening to these Podcasters about the vision they have for where we are all headed.
That is cool! Thanks for sidetracking me, too. (grin)
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