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Lockdown and Firefox Portable

Monday, September 17, 2007

{begin sarcasm}Oh how I do love the lockdown on my ability to customize my account with our new Windows computer system at my school. I’m so happy that the IT folks are preventing me and my students from doing useful things that might interfere with their ability to manage the system. We wouldn’t want students’ [...]

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Twitter mediated co-presentation

Wednesday, May 2, 2007

Today was the day that I drank the [Twitter](http://twitter.com) kool-aid. I have moved from [Stage 2](http://stigmergicweb.org/2007/04/26/stage-2-i-still-dont-get-it/) to Stage 6 (at least) in Doc Levine’s description of the [epidemiology of Twitterosis](http://cogdogblog.com/2007/04/26/splj-20/). I spent (most of) my day attending the [TLt 2007 conference](http://www.tlt-itsummit2007.ca/) in Saskatoon, which is about a 90 minute drive from home. During the drive, [...]

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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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Seymour Papert injured in motorcycle accident

Saturday, December 9, 2006

I’ve just read this post from Andy Carvin about Seymour Papert – Andy Carvin’s Waste of Bandwidth: Prayers for Seymour Papert. Seymour Papert was hit by a motorcycle and “gravely injured” while in Hanoi for a conference. According to a report at boston.com, the accident on Tuesday left Papert, 78, in a coma. An e-mail [...]

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Open Access: Why should we have it?

Saturday, November 25, 2006

David Wiley quotes from and links to a paper entitled “Open Access: Why should we have it?” As someone who promotes open access, open source software, open data formats and other forms of open thinking, it is rewarding to see that there is tangible evidence of the value of these practices. The cases studied in [...]

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