Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Twitter and Cloud Computing Viablity
Just read about why pageflakes was offline and thought I would share this link
http://www.csszengarden.com/?cssfile=/213/213.css&page=0
The comment at the bottom of the article on cloud computing lead me back to thinking about my programming days and how it was extremely difficult even back in the 90s to find good, talented IT persons .This makes me think that given shortages in the workforce in general ( Trades, Clerical etc, ) it will be much hard to find the programmers and IT administrators to look after the social networking systems and do all the non-glamorous grunt work that is required to insure these systems stay up and are stable . From my experience in the IT and educational fields hit is apparent that only a fraction of the individuals that are in our institutions actually are interested in IT (software, programming, hardware and the like) and even that specialized group do not want to pursue IT work for pleasure if it becomes a burden or a chore. I think this 'black box' use of the tools of the the Social Web has lead to its great successes in small pockets and communities of learning. Bernando Huberman et.al has it right I believe. They see Web 2.0 tools such as Twitter and Facebook and other social networking applications as extension of the collaborations and friendships that would exist between engaged and caring individuals anyway ( of course without the the geographic spatial constraints). I know that my Facebook account with 54 friends is now just a means to keep in touch with ( very sporadically I might add) a cadre close friends and family. It could serve loftier learning goals if I wanted to devote time to fighting the institution to to get the rights to use these tools in the classroom ( our School Division bans Facebook ( as per others...... Ontario Govt and others)). But as all good teachers do, you work around it. Effective teaching and learnig principles stand apart from any technology
http://www.csszengarden.com/?cssfile=/213/213.css&page=0
The comment at the bottom of the article on cloud computing lead me back to thinking about my programming days and how it was extremely difficult even back in the 90s to find good, talented IT persons .This makes me think that given shortages in the workforce in general ( Trades, Clerical etc, ) it will be much hard to find the programmers and IT administrators to look after the social networking systems and do all the non-glamorous grunt work that is required to insure these systems stay up and are stable . From my experience in the IT and educational fields hit is apparent that only a fraction of the individuals that are in our institutions actually are interested in IT (software, programming, hardware and the like) and even that specialized group do not want to pursue IT work for pleasure if it becomes a burden or a chore. I think this 'black box' use of the tools of the the Social Web has lead to its great successes in small pockets and communities of learning. Bernando Huberman et.al has it right I believe. They see Web 2.0 tools such as Twitter and Facebook and other social networking applications as extension of the collaborations and friendships that would exist between engaged and caring individuals anyway ( of course without the the geographic spatial constraints). I know that my Facebook account with 54 friends is now just a means to keep in touch with ( very sporadically I might add) a cadre close friends and family. It could serve loftier learning goals if I wanted to devote time to fighting the institution to to get the rights to use these tools in the classroom ( our School Division bans Facebook ( as per others...... Ontario Govt and others)). But as all good teachers do, you work around it. Effective teaching and learnig principles stand apart from any technology
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