Monthly Archives: September 2007

Don’t call it an Open Education 2007 Wrap-Up

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 … Continue reading

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Media in Transition 5: how did I miss this motherlode?

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } clouds, originally uploaded by dltq. Preparing for my Friday talk at this week’s Open Education Conference … Continue reading

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Exploitive corporate scum love Creative Commons

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 … Continue reading

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Hi! I can’t come to the blog right now…

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Lost in Transmission, originally uploaded by Lawrence Whittemore. …as every spare moment I’ve had this week … Continue reading

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My Twitter feed…

… 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 … Continue reading

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Must see: John Willinsky @ UBC, September 18

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } John Willinsky, originally uploaded by D’Arcy Norman. I’ve blogged a couple of John Willinsky’s talks before, … Continue reading

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OpenEd: Already dissembling on fundamentals

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 … Continue reading

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