| The bathtub boasted crochet hooks, desperate highways, Wednesday nights, deformed lawyers, crimson suspenders, weevils, puppy dogs, sea cucumbers, life-enhancing measures, ten-penny nails, consultants, untested designs, dust devils, harp sharpeners, and several long lazy afternoons in midtown Manhattan, or was it? The project area is about an hours drive from the dig house, so we settle in to our nine-passenger mini-bus - named Slanderer after the Albanian national hero - and sleep or chat during the trip. It contains rich detail about the excavation and recording activities her team is conducting. For the best view of the Fraser River Canyon, we climbed aboard boats and floated down the middle of the rushing water. Erikas blog entry tells us that she is suffering from sunburn, blisters, and perpetual chocolate cravings. It is open to teach anyone located anywhere. The skills needed in those times included having a storehouse of factual knowledge, as well as being able to follow rules and listen obediently and quite passively. Instead of economic might fostered through online technology, this book is about intellectual might. These openers include the emergence of online and blended learning, collaborative technology, digital books, open source software, and wireless and mobile learning. How this Web of Learning is viewed from different regions of the world or educational sectors will become apparent from reading this book. I have given hundreds of talks during the past few years. I have seen the WE-ALL-LEARN trends repeated repeatedly in different cities, countries, and cultures. I felt it was time to limit such travel for a year or two and document what I have seen, read, and heard about in a few books. This book provides a big picture lens on what I have observed. Others will offer specifics on what instructors and learners can do about them. The Web of Learning offers so much.
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