2008 Year in Review in the Blogs
January 2, 2009
Here are a few of the best end of year blogs posts from my favorite bloggers.
Leo Babauta from Zen Habits, writes The Essential Zen Habits of 2008, and does a great job summarizing his best material over the last year.
Tim Ferriss, author of 4 hour work week, has a great post summarizing the lessons he learned in 2008.
John Halamka, possibly the best CIO on the planet, outlines his 2008 Goals on his blog.
Alexander Russo, the entertaining Scholastic Education blogger, lists some of the education policy winners and losers of 2008.
John Batelle, the foremost expert on Google and search, writes the results of some of his 2008 predictions.
Wishing you all a happy new year!
FETC 2008 (Day 2)
February 8, 2008
I never had a chance to finish blogging about FETC 2008. Let me post some more highlights:
Steve Dembo introduced us to some hot new products that I had never heard of: Curriki ; Ustream ; and Digital Native.
I also got introduced to some web2.0 products that I knew about, but never dove into until after the conference. At the top of this list is Twitter. Check out my profile here.
Other than that, products that I want to learn more about are Moodle, a collaborative classroom management tool, and Ning, a free social network creator.
Finally, the best workshop of the day was by Jeanne Hayes of Hayes Connections. She talked about a virtualization solution by Parallels. Virtualization seems to be a no-brainer for any educational institution. It is a great way to consolidate servers, use less power, and improve support. (Of course, Smart Solutions has experts in virtualization if your school is interested in our services!)
Overall, it was a wonderful trip.