Ebooks, Libraries and HarperCollins

I must confess from the very beginning that I am not familiar with internal dealings between publishers and authors or with the libraries. Nevertheless, I support the HarperCollins policy. Seeing how the readership of ebook is growing, allowing public libraries to offer loans of ebooks without limit is detrimental to any good business venture. CNN [...]

Cathy’s Key

Looking at the Cathy’s Key gives some sense of a combination of social media. I think it is a learning context eventhough it will appeal to a particular demographic rather than general. Particularly the young. The graphics are good, though I think it is a little over done and that is why it will not [...]

No Electricity, No Technology!

The scenario of ‘no electricity’ is not new to me. In fact, I have endured more than a day of blackout. For those of us who come from countries that power supply is not stable this has been a misery experience. I travelled to my country, Nigeria in spring this year. I had to charge [...]

iEARN: The Teachers Network

Getting to know about the iEARN teachers’ network got me excited. Prior to this course, I was not aware of such an enriching network. iEARN is a network site where teachers collaborate with one another for professional development. There are 130 countries, 30 languages, 40,000 educators and about 2 million youths currently participating in iEARN. [...]

Facebook and I

Web 2.0 provides great functionalities and openness to connection with the world. Some applications of the web 2.0 that I am familiar with are Facebook, Twitter, You Tube, Flickr and MySpace. I have an account with all except Flickr and MySpace. I am not too familiar with Social Bookmarking sites like Delicious and CiteULike. RSS [...]