Earlier this week I wrote about building a school website one blog at a time, and some thoughts on the merits of not building a monolithic site, but as a series of small inter-related pieces. I’m happy to report that things have already started to move in that direction. You can see the main school [...]
Tuesday, January 17, 2006
Jeffrey Zeldman has pronounced his judgement on the Web 2.0 hype in A List Apart: Web 3.0. Much of his discontent seems to spring from an incident with a Web 2.0 boor: “Web 1.0 was not disruptive. You understand? Web 2.0 is totally disruptive. You know what XML is? You’ve heard about well-formedness? Okay. So [...]
Monday, November 14, 2005
Aren’t comment spammers just the best? I’ve been writing on this and other previous blogs for about 3 and a half years (which I think is about 25 internet years), and during that time I have forgotten a lot of the great posts I wrote. But tonight, as I was tossing out the spam, I [...]
Wednesday, November 9, 2005
This came in my inbox today from a colleague: I am looking for some way to organize my life – I am thinking through the web so that I can access it at home or at school. Whew – that is certainly no small goal. I actually find it somewhat ironic, although the implicit misguided [...]
Hot off the press from slashdot – Google is demonstrating the Google RSS reader at the Web 2.0 conference. I don’t know if I’ll be giving up on Bloglines, but I will certainly give this a good try. There’s a tour of Google Reader if you are interested. UPDATE – One of the important features [...]
Thursday, August 18, 2005
I am giving a presentation tomorrow entitled eLearning Processes Using Small Technologies Loosely Joined at the LORNET research symposium as part of eLearn 101 at the University of Saskatchewan. My basic idea is inspired by Brian Lamb, Alan Levine and D’Arcy Norman’s Small Pieces Loosely Joined wiki-blog-presentation-jam-session that they put together and presented from NMC [...]
Thanks to Brian Lamb for his post on this (Abject Learning: Now, if only someone could help me to visualise the change in my frontal lobe…). I just installed and tried out the wikipedia-animate script for the greasemonkey plugin in firefox. The plugin allows you to animate the changes on a wiki that is powered [...]
That is how Alan Levine describes a project he is relucantly invovled in (CogDogBlog » Blog Archive » I am a Reluctant, Invisible Participant in a Wretched Project). And he has my sympathy – anyone involved in educational technology has been dragged into a project because someone (usually of the pointy haired boss variety) had [...]