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Open thinking is open

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 [...]

Searching for a Mac Text Editor – some reviews

As part of my M.Ed. project, I’ll be building a web site. Most sane people would do this using Dreamweaver or some similar product. I, however, am not one of those people – I prefer to create web pages by hand-coding the HTML and CSS files. I suppose if I wanted to be uber-geeky about [...]

The posse is back!

After a long and rejuvenating summer break, the EdTech Posse is back with some new podcasts. In our first podcast of the new season, Rick and I talk with brand new Posse deputy Heather Ross about open source in education. EdTech Posse 2.1 – Open Source in Education

Statistics Canada is now Linux Friendly

Notice to Linux users In response to demand, Statistics Canada has removed the restriction for Linux. This change takes effect May 13th, 2006. I think this is the first acknowledgement by a government in Canada that Linux exists, let alone that people might actually be using to fill in census data. There are still a [...]

Stephen's Glu

I have played around some with SuprGlu, a web service that allows you to take some RSS feeds and munge them all together in one blog-like page (I have an example that pulls together the web sites for various members of the EdTech Posse). Never content with the web services where the code is locked [...]

Savings With Open Source in Schools

I think the title says it all. Despite constant rumors, mostly FUD based, that open source software does not provide a lower total cost of ownership, many schools are finding out that this is not the case: Using Open Source software Noxon School District saved $92,675.20. Linux and Open Source software allowed this school district [...]

OpenOffice.org 2.0 Officially Released

Its great to see that Alec Couros, the open source sheriff of the posse, is spreading the word – Couros Blog » Blog Archive » OpenOffice.org 2.0 Officially Released I expect there are going to be a flurry of downloads over the next little while. I would suggest you download openoffice.org 2.0 via bittorrent, then [...]

Athabasca University Switching To Moodle

I’ve heard about this through a number of sources, including Alec, who views this as I do – a signal that North American institutes of higher learning may start adopting open source software as part of their learning infrastructure. Alec puts it aptly: Leading innovative institutions will continue to switch to open source software once [...]