social learning, open education, and petty battles with rivals over power and money…
From the monthly archives:
Hermosillo, Mexico shared CC by pmoroni
I was little surprised to find that yesterday was the hottest day ever recorded in Vancouver. In no small part because the record temperature rang in at only 33.8 degrees C (92.8 F): warm, no question, but a normal summer day where I grew up in Saskatoon.
It put me [...]
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Open Access Chalkboard shared CC by Gideon Burton
An anecdote from Andre Malan’s must-read blog:
I am currently working at a software company as an intern, writing a program. Now of course, as anybody who has taken Software Engineering knows (don’t worry readers who are not in Computer Science, I promise I will not lose you), when you [...]
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I wanted to spend some real time with the site before blogging about the Free Music Archive, and over that time my admiration for this project has continued to grow. The FMA describes itself thus:
The Free Music Archive is an interactive library of high-quality, legal audio downloads. The Free Music Archive is directed by [...]
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Just a quick note that today is the last day to snag the ridiculously cheap early rate for this year’s Open Education Conference, August 12-14th in Van Rock City. If you have not already, I urge you to take a gander at the program we have lined up – I can’t imagine anything that could [...]
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I know Novak Rogic well enough to know that when he gets this enthusiastic about some new development that it’s worth paying attention to. So what’s the deal with the Section Widget WordPress plugin?
This plugin is basically an improved version of the built-in text widget. It allows you to display some arbitrary text or HTML [...]
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I wrote in an earlier post that one of our goals with the Sixth Annual Open Education Conference was to present a program that somehow expanded how we conceived and thought through what open education means. So imagine how thrilled the organizers were to read Alan Levine’s idea for a session entitled Amazing Stories of Openness:
While [...]
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Just a quick note how flattered I am to be one of the guest speakers for next month’s workshop hosted by SFU’s Summer Publishing Workshops series, Web Content Management. I can’t do a better description than the blurb:
Digitization is the word on everyone’s lips this year, and there is much talk about how to get [...]
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