At the upcoming Alaska Society for Technology in Education (ASTE) conference (Feb 25, 2009) I’ll be giving a short overview of lifestreaming. Here’s the synopsis:

Last year and the year before I gave talks on Web 2.0, and this year the conference sectionals are brimming with subjects around blogs, wikis, and even social networking. Few of our schools have yet to figure out how to integrate such tools into actual curriculum (and show with data they improve test scores), but they definitely realize that in order to keep school relevant to students they need to. The sheer quantity of Web 2.0 sites and services launched just in the last year is a testament to the fact that the true special sauce of social media isn’t inside any particular website, but in the power of aggregating and disseminating bits of information across multiple websites.