social learning, open education, and petty battles with rivals over power and money…
From the monthly archives:
Yet another application to keep me tantalized and humbled all at once…
I’ve been spotting TiddlyWiki in my peripheral vision for some time now, but only over the past couple days have I fixed my gaze on it. So far my reaction has been a jumble of impulses ranging from “wow!” to “huh?”
As usual, someone [...]
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This day has been a psychic cesspool, making me all too receptive to notions such as these:
When I think it over, I must say that my education has in many ways done me great harm. This reproach falls on a number of people, namely my parents, some relatives, the occasional visitor to our house, various [...]
Jon Udell’s latest screencast on visualizing change is the usual mind-expanding stuff. I only had a few minutes to follow through on the links, but those few minutes not only snagged me a nifty tool for viewing editorial processes in Wikipedia entries (which will be incredibly useful for demos and workshops), but also prompted [...]
Now that I have totally botched my half-baked plans for a gentle launch, maybe I should give a quick overview of what aggRSSive actually is…
I should note I am writing this post in extreme haste (I’m off work today, and about to take on childminding duties for a totall of three toddlers).
Essentially aggRSSive is a [...]
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Update: I meant to hold off posting the link until I added more feeds to the collection and polished a couple things. I also hope to point out more features which we need to make easier to find. But I’m also easily swayed by even the slightest bit of pressure. Keep in [...]
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Here at the UBC Town Hall… I normally don’t blog sessions, but I’ll make an exception in this case, as this is a topic very close to my heart. A group of TAs in the Department of English (my old discipline) are talking about their experiences using weblogs to support their instruction and scholarship.
English [...]
Microsoft Corp. is cooperating with China’s government to censor the company’s newly launched Chinese-language Web portal, a spokesman for the tech giant said.
The policy affects Web logs, or blogs, created through the MSN Spaces service, said Adam Sohn, a global sales and marketing director at MSN.
… On Monday, Agence France-Presse, the French news agency, said [...]
Well, it’s been a long time, been a long time, been a lonely lonely lonely lonely lonely time….
I don’t want to throw my back out by blogging too rigorously, so I’m going to make my first entry back an easy one — my first of what I hope will be a series of responses to [...]
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