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Common Craft video on Google Docs.

Wednesday, September 19, 2007

I love Google Docs and I love the videos made by Common Craft. The combination of the two makes me positively giddy: Video: Google Docs in Plain English | Common Craft – In Plain English Our second client production was for the Google Docs team. For the first time, we got a chance to work [...]

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Google Docs has presentation!

Monday, September 17, 2007

We knew this was coming when Google acquired Tonic back in April. And now its here. {Happy dance} No longer shall we be held hostage by Microsoft. From now on our allegiance shall be with Google. That’s an improvement, right? :^)

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Overwhelmed by the abundance of choices

Thursday, September 13, 2007

I’m getting started on a couple of interesting instructional design projects right now. One is the design of an online computer science class for Grade 11 students. I’ve taught CompSci many times before and used a blended instructional model where the students and I were all in the same room, and all the resources and [...]

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Learning tools, not teaching tools

Wednesday, July 18, 2007

I’ve been reading a few blog posts from the Building Learning Communities conference, mostly from Dean, but Will’s post Why is it so Hard for Educators to Focus on Their Own Learning? hit on a topic that I’ve been trying to gain some perspective on for a while. We have a lot of terrific free [...]

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Stage 2 – I still don't get it

Thursday, April 26, 2007

Life is now in post project mode, meaning I get to re-acquaint myself with some long forgotten activities such as doing housework/yardwork, sleeping for more than 5 hours a night and the ever popular wasting my time online. My first distraction from WISBD (“what I should be doing” which in this case is marking some [...]

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Roger and Me: a tale of spam, scuttle and irony.

Friday, February 23, 2007

It’s a great feeling when something you’ve done is so interesting to spammers, that they contact you personally. I received a comment to moderate in my e-mail this morning from Roger (I’m not giving a last name, and I’m definitely not going to put an URL up here) asking about my scuttle spam-proofing hack. Here’s [...]

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