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Anyone recall what happened on 07.07.07 or SOS? I don’t blame you!
Today is the anniversary of Live Earth the SOS call to everyone that took the form of a seven continent concert. NBC and satellite radio promoted it. So much has happened since then with regard to climate initiatives that the huge global music concert for planet earth seems like a distant dream.
There were ‘Green Guidelines‘ and an album summing up the event. But the event struck me as too much entertainment and less engagement, and I had hoped they would fix that in the months that followed.
Today there seems to be no news. No statements from folks like Leonardo DiCaprio and Al Gore who helped promote the event. Just a pretty (static) web site.
I’m not being cynical. It’s a good sign that students are being encouraged to write feature articles on Wikipedia, instead of being asked to stay away from the wiki format in schools or in some cases ban it wholesale.
What does that bode for our future employees? Not only will they be ready to work in the read-write web, but they will begin to dismiss as irrelevant our read-only intranets and flash-y webs.
Others have tried to incorporate social media in the classroom, or rather the classroom in social media. Professor Jon Beasley-Murray of the University of British Columbia said it best: “the best way to see how it works is to actually take part.”
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