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Category Archives: OWEA

Learning from the top bloggers

Oh, I know The Bloggess isn’t for everyone. She’s profane and outrageous. She’s offensive in so many ways. She’s also funnier than Robin Williams and extremely successful at blogging.
One of the hints you get when you read tips for being a better blogger is to summarize your posts in a weekly roundup. Another tip is [...]

Useful links: OWEA, Scrunchup

Industry body forming to address IT graduate skills is an interview at Computerworld with OWEA co-chair John Allsopp.
The Open Web Education Alliance (OWEA), which is due to be launched early 2010, will be dedicated to promoting the best ways in which Web professionals and IT graduates can gear themselves up for the workforce.
OWEA co-chair John [...]

American Innovation

The President of the United States released a whitepaper called A Strategy for American Innovation: Driving Towards Sustainable Growth and Quality Jobs (PDF). The plan has three parts. At the base you see a section called building blocks which includes a statement about 21st Century education.

The paragraph describing the education building block is:
Educate the next [...]

Have digital tools made your dreams come true?

I found this wonderful video among PBS’s Digital Nation videos. Charlotte Ashurst McDaniel explains how digital tools have changed her life for the better.

I suspect that many of us have stories about how digital tools have changed our lives.
This blog changed my life. In the late 1990s and early in the current century, I was [...]

Web Education Rocks

Something significant for web education is happening in Chattanooga from August 5-8. The event is dubbed the Web Education Rocks Summit. The event is a meeting of the newly formed Open Web Education Alliance. Members are meeting to create a structure for OWEA that will aid companies, schools, and organizations involved in shaping the education [...]

Useful links: WaSP OWEA announcement, HTML 5,

Introducing the Open Web Education Alliance at WaSP’s Buzz page. See also The Big Reveal for a link to the public mailing list for this group. Follow news on the group on Twitter @waspinteract.
html5doctor is a new group blog working to bring information about the proposed specs for HTML 5 to the masses. They encourage [...]

W3C Open Web Education Alliance Incubator Group: The Big Reveal

Open Web Education Alliance Incubator Group (OWEA) was announced this week by the W3C.

The mission of the Open Web Education Alliance Incubator Group, part of the Incubator Activity, is to help enhance and standardize the architecture of the World Wide Web by facilitating the highest quality standards and best practice based education for future generations [...]