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Crowdsource Project Names Dr. Jeff Piontek an ISTE 2010 Keynoter

After nearly two weeks of voting and more than three months of input gathering, Hawaii-based educator Dr. Jeff Piontek has emerged as the people’s choice to headline one of ISTE 2010’s three keynote sessions.
Pionek is the author of “Blogs, Wikis, and Podcasts, Oh My!” and many articles, including his latest, “Educating Jetson’s Children in Flintstone [...]

Crowdsourcing: Reflections on the Final Phase of Our Experiment

In his book, The Wisdom of Crowds, James Surowiecki discusses four key qualities that make a crowd of people “smart”. The crowd must be diverse, decentralized, independent, and it needs a way of summarizing people’s opinions into one collective verdict. In ISTE’s first fully crowdsourced keynote, we’ve done our best to tap into the wisdom [...]

Crowdsourcing or Loudsourcing?

Applause to my friends at ISTE for having the gumption to create a massive experiment in crowdsourcing with their ISTE 2010 keynote crowdsourcing forum.  As I’ve put in my own suggestions and thoughts and sat back to watch the forum evolve since it was posted, a few things about crowds have come to mind as [...]

Crowdsourcing ISTE 2010 Keynote – Phase 2

We’re pleased to announce the ISTE 2010 Keynote Crowdsource project has moved into Phase 2!
Go to Keynote Project to check out our five most popular topic areas and learn how to nominate the person you think should be the featured keynote speaker at ISTE 2010 in Denver.
Here’s the blog post outlining the project: Schooling Together

Crowdsourcing The Best of Learning & Leading with Technology

Crowdsourcing is taking the writing world by storm!
I’ve seen authors in various fiction genres host their entire publicity tour online, asking readers to take pictures of their books in bookstores, of people reading their books, and of the books in funny situations. The authors offer prizes drawn at random or for the most creative photo. [...]