Tamara Wong
The CEO of WEbooks stood confidently in front of her company logo and gave a convincing elevator pitch about her company. She clearly outlined that there was no place for people inspiring to become writers and her solution is to create a program much like you tube where the merit of the writing (instead of […]
Continue reading WEbooks – a democratic publishing company Posted in: Uncategorized I chose to analyze Connie Malamed December 2010 opinion piece “Learning Technology Trends to Watch in 2011.” In the true fashion of judging a book by its cover I chose this particular piece because of the visuals – a conscious choice as I feel I understand and learn better when there are visual cues that […]
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Dear Tamara,
I literally closed my eyes and clicked on one of the links and I chose the same article. I also didn’t read anyone else’s post but I like whomever called it the “People Magazine” overview. 🙂 I agree with you that the comments were more informative but I liked the layout so will probably go back to the site. When I say I would recommend it, I’m actually thinking of some of the teachers I work with who are still hitting reply all instead of reply sender. Nice post.
Hi Tamara,
I appreciate your multi-perspective approach to this discussion, particulalry the parallels made from your experience on the site to an integrated learning tool ( your language arts example).
Perspective is an interesting thing. I agree that many of the accounts could benefit from further exploration. However, it could also be that Malamed is catering to a specific target audience, perhaps the kind of teachers MW mentioned, or objective, an introduction and brief overview to platform further research. Also, perhaps she could offer services that would garner deeper information. That in and of itself would be a viable venture.
Kerry-Ann
Hi, Tamara.
I had not thought about the language possibilities for AR before you mentioned them. It’s like taking Google Goggles to the next step… what a useful technology-aided ability that would be when traveling! One would just hope that those in charge of translation knew what they were doing and were trustworthy. When they aren’t, we all know what the consequences could be:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6D1YI-41ao
Like you, I would only recommend it, I think, as a “neat little summary-type” article.
Cheers,
Steve
Hi Tamara,
There is something to be said about the opening comment you made, how visually appealing Malamed’s blog is, and it may be an appeal to Gardner’s spatial intelligence, The phrase “judging a book by its cover” was meant to indicate shallow, snap judgements rather than a more academically-sound analysis of the book itself. Yet now with digital technology, does this old saw hold true? Like rotary phones, analog clocks and television dials, books are slowly being replaced by Web-based content (very slowly, it may be decades before children ask parents “what does dust jacket mean?”). Internet-users need those visual cues to incite their interests, even if it turns out to be the “People Magazine” version of learning technology. How many people are willing to read through a screenful of plain text to gather information? How many of us ETEC 522ers actually read through each edtech marketplace report before posting our responses? While Malamed’s predictions may not be absolutely informative, she has caught the attention of enough of us to continue on with this discussion.
Kyle
Hi all!. I am Tamara Wong and I live a small farming community outside of Toronto. After living in Toronto for 4 year while my husband finished school it is nice to hear the birds sing and smell the fresh (most of the time – it is a farming community) air. Living farther north has […]
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Hi Tamara,
Nice to “see” you again :). Wow, it looks like you have a lot of interesting things to do. Looking forward to continue learning with you again. Cheers!
Angela.
Hi Tamara,
Looking forward to learning with a fellow learning junkie again.
Tamara,
I am happy to see you around once more. I know we will continue to have a great time learning together. All the best my friend.
Hello Tamara,
Great to see you again. Seems you are on the home stretch. All the best. Learning junkie myself, which sometimes is a challenge because I want to read everything and there is just too much and too little time 🙂
Hi Tamara,
Good to meet up again. I see you are on the last lap(s) of your ETEC adventure, kudos to you! Looking forward to another exciting and rewarding experience.
Before you publish your posting, please make sure that you select a category (eg. Introductions) as well as assign some meaningful tags (keywords).
khenry 7:31 pm on September 24, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Hi Tamara,
I agree that information such as partnerships and affiliations are vital to a pitch. If expectations seem high and unattainable then this would definitely detract investors.
Kerry-Ann
Doug Smith 8:53 pm on September 24, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Hi Tamara,
What is your take on the $50B industry reference? I’m not entirely sure that I know what WeBook’s intention is. Are they hoping to take a large chunk of the market? Or are they wanting to take a large chunk of market share at a reduced selling price (ie offering a cheaper product)? When I think of WeBook I think of Wikipedia. Wikipedia upended the encyclopedia market and took market share, but they don’t really make money, at least not that I know of. Linux is similar, since it is released under an open license. However, Linux allows for corporations to take linux and package it into a retail product. Like
Wikipedia, I’m not sure the Linux developers get a cut from corporate revenues and sales.
I would have liked to hear even a quick little sound bite on what WeBook wanted out of the market, rather than just to upend it.
cheers
Doug