social learning, open education, and petty battles with rivals over power and money…
From the monthly archives:
I’m in the Salt Lake City airport as I write this, and positively knackered. So I’ll apologise upfront for a post that is incomplete and probably incoherent. I’m sure I’ll miss lots of stuff.
Some highlights this week:
* getting an early start to the week at quieter than normal COSL office, getting the chance to hang [...]
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clouds, originally uploaded by dltq.
Preparing for my Friday talk at this week’s Open Education Conference I have been mulling over something that one of last year’s keynoters, Erik Duval, said in conversation. If I understood [...]
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My Mashup of Mike’s Mashup of My Mashup, originally uploaded by cambodia4kidsorg.
I’ve already acknowledged my fuzziness around the implications of the various clauses of a Creative Commons license. In my hyper-simplistic way I have come to be convinced by the likes of David Wiley and others I respect in the open culture movement that in [...]
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Lost in Transmission, originally uploaded by Lawrence Whittemore.
…as every spare moment I’ve had this week has been engaged in a futile battle against an automated spambot that is gradually but relentlessly overgrowing the work of [...]
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… pointed me to this new short film demonstrating Google docs put together by Lee Lefever et al, the same folks who’ve been building the wonderful CommonCraft series of short films demonstrating the principles of Web 2.0.
Via the same thread, we learn about the new Google Presentation tool, we can only hope it does to [...]
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John Willinsky, originally uploaded by D’Arcy Norman.
I’ve blogged a couple of John Willinsky’s talks before, and hopefully made my admiration unmistakably clear. So it is with genuine excitement that I plug his presentation here at [...]
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The questions that Professor Wiley poses for discussion to open the course seem straightforward enough, but I have found them vexing. I have to recognise that I don’t necessarily have a firm grip on some fairly fundamental issues.
I have to acknowledge that I don’t have a tight grasp on what a “basic human right” means. [...]
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