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Kirsten Winkler interviews Christopher Grant (me!) about Sclipo

Last Wednesday I had the pleasure of speaking with well-know educational blogger Kirsten Winkler as a part of her Edukwest series on online education. Our conversation covered a wide-range of…

UOC, UNESCO & Sclipo “Fight the Digital Divide”

Sclipo is proudly providing open attendance to the UOC UNESCO Chair in E-Learning 5th International Seminar on “Fighting the Digital Divide through Education.” The conference began on…

Sclipo Live Web Classrooms and MoodleMoot 2008

It’s been a tough week. I’ve been sick but thanks to the valiant effort of the rest of the team (Edwin, Victor, Gregor…), and some couch-based work on my part, we managed to launch…

Barcelona is Spain’s social start-up capital

Expansion.com had a nice article this morning on how Barcelona has given birth to specialized social networking start-ups and Sclipo got a nice mention at the end. Read the article in Spanish or in…

The Making of Grupos v2.0

This post has been a long time in the making. In mid-May we decided to build a new version of Grupos Emagister, our new beta version social learning network. Construction lasted into early July and we…

BitTorrent web sites: hotbeds of digital altruism

If you’ve ever used one of the more popular BitTorrent sites (for the record I hear they are wonderful ways to enjoy free media, especially US TV shows you can’t get in countries like, say Spain.…

Digital altruism and the riddle of anonymous online samaritans

I’ve been thinking alot lately about Joshua Porter’s presentation on The Psychology of Social Design at last year’s User Experience Week. (I know that was a year ago, but I’ve…

The Damage “Friend Finder” is Inflicting on Facebook

It seems like everyone is jumping on the anti-Facebook bandwagon lately (if you haven’t seen “I’m getting bored of Facebook”, you really should, it’s quite funny). I’ve never been a fan of…