| Stephen Walsh |
 "I like to look at things from different angles." It's a side-effect of a varied professional life. I went from investment banking in Dublin to playwriting, to teaching in a Chicago high school, to working with one of the world's foremost pioneers of e-learning and education, Roger Schank at Cognitive Arts in Chicago. Working with Schank for over six years, and being part of a team who were doing incredibly exciting and innovative things with e-learning (before we had the term) put me on a road that I'm still on today: looking at what's new, what could be improved, doing what it takes to make great learning happen, with and for great people. That continued at Epic, where I worked with Mark, Matt and Steve, and I'm thrilled to take it even further at Kineo." Want to know a little more about Stephen, take a look at his favourite websites.
Unbelievable. Makes the planet seem small and huge at the same time. Go on, find your house! This is one of those sites that will ruin your plans for the whole day it's so amazing. I'm going to write about it more next month, but the learning potential is huge for this site. Every Geography teacher in the world should be using it -- and with Google Earth, you can practically fly into their classrooms to check. The people running the Music Genome project have set themselves a modest little task: Catalogue every song on earth according to a complex set of filters. The fruit of their labour is this fantastic site. You tell it which song or artists you like, it creates a customised radio station based on your preferences and plays you things it things you will like. If you say "I liked that, play more like that", it serves up songs and artists more similar to your preferences. It's not about genres, charts, popularity, it's about making connections from one song to the next and taking you somewhere you've never been before. Sounds simple, but the backend is amazingly sophisticated. I've listened to it for hours without hearing a song I don't like. Farewell, radio. If your e-learning worked like this you'd be a lot happier. Where was this when I was doing my homework? Throw your leather bound Britannica on the fire, this is where all knowledge will come from now. The daddy of all the Wikis. All contributions by generous, intelligent people. The world isn't such a bad place when something like Wikipedia comes out of people's altruism. Anyone who says "people don't just browse they web anymore, they just get what they want and get on with it", should try this. You will make connections and learn something you never intended to. Fuel your cocktail party conversations with your newfound insights from Wikipedia. Where podnerds like me are safe from the world. A great community, answers to every ipod and itunes question.
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