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The Nessie Awards '09 Edition
Hard as it is to believe, a year has gone by and it’s that time again, silly awards season, and so without further ado I bring you the 2009 Nessie Awards (with new improved award categories!) Tweet that made me LMAO In order to keep up with the Jones, we here at the Nessie Awards [...]
ReadTwit and GReader – two great tastes that taste great together
http://www.readtwit.com/ A while back I found readtwit (can’t recall from who, but thanks!), a service that creates an RSS feed of all the links that are posted by people in your twitter follow feed, expanding each link into the page it was actually linking to. Now if you are like me, and follow people in [...]
Improving on the Collection of PLE Diagrams
http://edtechpost.wikispaces.com/PLE+Diagrams I first started the collection of PLE Diagrams in June 2008 with no more planning other than “gee, it sure seems like there are a lot of PLE Diagrams out there, I wonder if I collected a lot of them whether we might not be able to learn something from different people’s conceptions of [...]
What I learned at WordCamp Victoria
This past weekend I joined about 100 others for the first Wordcamp Victoria, a celebration and exploration of all things WordPress. Hats off to Paul Holmes and the other volunteers for organizing a fine gathering. Now I am not a great joiner at the best of times, and when it comes to “camp” style gatherings [...]
Sharing, not just planning to share – Crowdsourcing OER Search for Africa
http://twitter.com/findanoerafrica/ I am hoping that Dave Cormier will write this up fully, as it was his idea for which he deserves full credit, but the eleganceand simplicity of it, coupled with the real need it hopes to serve, compelled me to post something right away in hopes of helping it get going. As I understand [...]
How to participate in the Open Ed conference even if you can't get to Vancouver
http://sites.wiki.ubc.ca/opened09/index.php/Virtual_Attendee_List So the Open Ed conference has begun and I am frankly overwhelmed to see the 200 or so amazing folks who have come together in Vancouver around “Open Education.” But this movement is far larger than that, it’s a global movement, and we are doing our best as organizers to help folks who couldn’t [...]
My Comment to CNIE on the Canadian Copyright Consultation process
You may have heard that the Canadian federal government is currently consulting with Canadians about planned changes to our existing copyright laws. In addition to getting my own submission together and working on something on behalf of BCcampus, I was extremely pleased to hear, via Rick Schwier’s blog, that one of the few groups in [...]
3 Travel Scholarships Available for Open Ed & Other Various Conf News
http://openedconference.org/archives/324 Hopefully you are already following the Open Ed 2009 conference news feed and this will be just so much cruft, but if not I thought it worthwhile to re-post here in Edtechpost the fact that, due to some very generous sponsors, we are able to offer 3 travel scholarships to Open Education in Vancouver, [...]
Sharing your PLE just got a little bit easier
Big hat tip to Gerry Paille for knowing me well enough to realize that the huge Firefox Add-On nut that I am would be extremely excited to learn about a new feature/service for Firefox called “Collections.” Basically, the Collection part of the site (and the related Add-On Collector Add-On – ha!) allow people to create [...]
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