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April 2007
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Death and…
Ok, I expect this is one to be put in the “see what you get when you leave it to the last minute” file, but the internet gods are conspiring against me (and I expect hundreds of others) today as we try to get our taxes in on time. As if it wasn’t bad enough [...]
Tagging and Metadata for Social Information Organization Workshop
http://www2007.redlog.net/ Last week during the “digital content strategy” roundtable I sat on at UBC, one of the things I urged was for the librarians there to take tagging seriously (to which I actually got a partially affirmative response). I am not sure if this is a case of “be careful what you wish for” but [...]
Democracy – Open Source Vodcast Player
http://www.getdemocracy.com/ The other night at dinner, I was reflecting on the somewhat disappointing results to date of my family’s experiment to create a PC-based home media centre upstairs in our living room. So far we’ve mostly been plagued by hardware problems, network connectivity problems, TV resolution problems, yada yada. The whole goal of the exercise [...]
What I learned at Dinner
Last night I had dinner at Brian and Keira’s house with David Wiley and Brandon Muramatsu. It’s hard to express what an honour this was for me, not just to hang out with some of my truly favourite people, but to be able to quiz David and Brandon for a few hours even after David’s [...]
Mea Culpa – I'm a Twit
And by that I mean more so than you usually think. Brian found it kind of rich that not 2 days after publicly dissing twitter on his blog, an email showed up in his inbox with my twitter friend request. But when pretty well everyone you read and respect tells you there’s something worth seeing, even [...]
Attending Learning Impact 2007 – Reworked Schedule for Tuesday Strands
Google Docs & Spreadsheets – Learning Impact 2007 – Tuesday Strands I am in Vancouver attending the IMS Learning Impact (formerly Alt-i Lab) conference until Wednesday. The conference goes until Thursday but I am giving a talk at the BCLA conference as well as visiting with Brian at UBC so will miss the last day. [...]
Chock one up for the little guys
I was remiss yesterday for not posting what is perhaps the biggest story in our personal lives, the success of the efforts by my wife and other parents to keep my son’s school open. The Victoria School Board had decided that 2 schools needed to be closed because of declining enrollments, or what they called [...]
Psiphon – creating cracks in the great firewall
ttp://psiphon.civisec.org/ I remember, I think it was Northern Voice 2006, talking with Brian, D’Arcy and Alan about the “Google filtering Chinese search results” and “China banning wikipedia” stories. While I was just as willing as the next to shake my fist at the injustice of it all, at the time I also argued that if [...]
bfree – export courses from Blackboard
http://its.unc.edu/tl/tli/bFree/ Another useful pointer from Michael Roy at Wesleyan’s Academic Commons, bFree is a tool built by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It allows you to open a Blackboard course export or archive file, select the files you want and then export these as an independent website. This might not seem like [...]
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