Suggested Topics (to maintain a pretence of structure)

Barriers to sharing...

• Closed, managed environments
• The walled garden - reality and mentality
• Intellectual Property and copyright -- but what about Creative Commons∞

The environments...

• How is the LMS∞ different than the PLE∞? What are the implications?
• How important are the choice of tools? Which tools are worth getting excited about?
• Blogs, wikis, podcasts, yadda, yadda -- why should we care?

What's the Glu?

• What is RSS? (BasicsOfRSS)
• How is podcasting different that any other form of online audio?
• How do distributed networks work? Why are they useful?

Some questions...

• Are you guys just a bunch of sneaky anarchists?
• "Weblogs in education" or "Education in weblogs"?
• "Content is less important every day" - what do you mean by that, Stephen?
• BeenDigital - how profound is the shift to digital?
• Digital native vs. digital immigrants -- is this a useful distinction?

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