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Open thinking is open

Wednesday, January 3, 2007

Open Thinking – a new site/community for anyone who is interested in open content, open source software, open publishing practices or open content formats – is now open. Here’s our current definition of open thinking: Open thinking is the tendency of an individual, group or institution to give preference to the adoption of open technologies [...]

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An Inconvenient Truth

Tuesday, August 22, 2006

I have a couple of days in Saskatoon this week, and today I did something that has been on my personal to-do list for a while – I saw the film An Inconvenient Truth. (Tangential note – I saw the film at the Broadway Theatre in Saskatoon. If you love films, and you like to [...]

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By the way, Stephen seems to be back(ish)

Monday, May 8, 2006

I meant to mention this earlier, but it seems like Stephen is back somewhat from his hiatus. Given the hysteria around web based e-mail accounts, MySpace and other threats to the educational orthodoxy, the timing couldn’t be better. Its good to have you back, Stephen. We need all the help we can get, now more [...]

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You can get anything you want at nonscholae.org

Sunday, January 15, 2006

Sign me up, James. This looks brilliant! nonscholae.org nonscholae.org is a site devoted to the responsible use of blogs, instant messaging and other social software in schools. Non scholae sed vitae discimus We learn, not for school, but for life – Seneca, Epistulae We believe that these tools and resources should not be blocked or [...]

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