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March 03, 2006
Wikipedia on Your iPod!
I delivered a brief overview of emerging ways to better reach and engage people yesterday and a question arose about why 'blogs, wikis and podcasting' are often thrown together and referenced as examples of current learning innovation because it's hard to see how they are related. I suppose they are related in a way if you take out the underlying technologies and just focus on the concept of 'people creating content' ...which is a pretty good idea and represents a powerful way to increase engagement at low cost. Of course, there is a technology linkage between blogs and podcasting because they both utilize RSS to enable people to subscribe to updates. Now, thanks to the video blog Rocket Boom I've learned of a link between iPods and Wikis! You can get a version of Wikipedia on your iPod called Encyclopodia to use as a portable reference guide. Unlike Podcasting, there isn't a subscription in which you can stay up to date, and unlike Wikis, you can't change the content yourself, but it's a great example of a mashup of technologies with learning potential!
Posted by Ron Edwards at March 3, 2006 02:39 PM
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