Witness: An Open Letter to Professor Michael Sandel From the Philosophy Department at San Jose State U.

What do you think?

(I'll chime in when I get a moment to reflect!)

For anyone at EdLab in 2006, the big "graph search" announcement from Facebook probably brought to mind memories of EdLab's first app, PocketKnowledge.

Back in 2005, when the PocketKnowledge project began, the online world looked pretty different... there were no "app stores" to speak of, and Facebook had just emerged from its Boston/Ivy birthplace. A skeptic today might pull up PocketKnowledge and scoff -- sure, it looks a bit dated, the UX is lacking polish, and it doesn't work like other institutional repositories -- but they would be missing the gem at its core: graph search!

Not only did the small EdLab team succeed at envisioning a powerful kind of graph search in 2005, but we launched it nine months later in mid-2006! So, join with me in scoffing a bit at Facebook's latest accomplishment... sure, I'll use it (I can't help myself, Anne!), but only with a increased sense of pride in PocketKnowledge:

Wow, how is this set of users using Vialogues? Anyone translated it yet? Seems like an interesting use of responses to comments...

Check out my post on some exhibitions work over on the Learning at the Library site.

Read Five ways the New York Times is 'getting personal' on social media for some interesting ideas about personalization. Granted, the NYTimes is a big fish. Can any of these strategies work for a new publication like New Learning Times (NLT)?

Add your examples and ideas here!

Just a fun, quick take on Google on Forbes.

Maybe if Google did have to answer to shareholders more, there would be fewer dog massages, drop-off dry cleaning, and cafeteria options and more tangible results... Sometimes being too spoiled in life early on can stunt your personal growth later. You expect to succeed every time you do something. You forget to stop working so hard. You move into areas that are beyond your domain expertise. And, when you fail once, twice, and three times, you get frustrated and blame someone other than yourself for the mistakes.

I want to highlight a change to the library website. Much of EdLab's work is now highlighted as part of the library's growing Education Program. (There is now also a link to the Education Program on the library homepage!)

Before the upcoming Academic Festival (4/21), our Rock and Roll and YoungArts curriculum projects will also be added to this page.

Just in case you were curious... much of this content was previously highlighted under a now-defunct "EdLab Publishing Network" page. I felt this page was too confusing, and the split between our resources and the "Education Program" page unnecessary. I think this change will it easier for us to promote our work here at TC.

Please let me know if you have any feedback about the presentation of this growing/coalescing set of offerings.

I wrote a short reflection on today's seminar, A Democratic Agency, over on my Pressible site. Let me know what you think! It was a lot to think about. . .

Check out this cool infographic on the "millennial" generation by Ohhitony:

http://www.onlinegraduateprograms.com/millennials/