Wednesday, March 30, 2011

OpenStack is some serious shit!

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Being backed by Rackspace, NASA, Dell, Citrix, Cisco, Canonical and over 50 other organizations make this a force to be reckoned with... and...

Ignore copyright and blissfully create OER

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One of the themes coming from SXSW was comments that 4chan founder Christopher "moot" Poole made in how Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook ...
Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Challenging the copyright status quo in OER

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A couple of days ago I commented on a post titled " Paul Stacey from BCcampus: Open Education and Policy " on the creative commons...
Thursday, March 24, 2011

Create your own life long learning portfolio

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Why should creating a learning portfolio be limited to K12 children? This is a great short video describing the Learning in Depth work of K...
Thursday, March 17, 2011

Inspired Adult Sk8r

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Rod is a friend who has taken it upon himself to learn how to skateboard at the youthful age of 40-something. He was inspired by the interes...

Inspired Learners Series

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Inspiration in online learning can be found in many places. You can find many people who use the Internet to learn new things. And increasin...
Tuesday, March 15, 2011

What do the teens think of OER

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This project is in the idea formation stage for me. I need to get it out into the open so I can discuss it further and have people critique ...
Monday, March 14, 2011

So I built my own Pipe Chord

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I wanted to start transposing some simple songs to their fingering on the pipe. I couldn't find any blank music sheets to transpose to, ...

twinkle twinkle little star

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I'm still waiting for my pipe, thinking it will be here this week. So, my first task is going to be learning the scales then quickly mov...
Sunday, March 13, 2011

Inspire Adult Learners

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A few weeks ago I realized that what I really want to do is Inspire Adult Learners , and this is a big part of what I have wanted to do all ...
Saturday, March 12, 2011

Progressive Video; Platform and Pedagogy

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15 months back I described the design / creation of a progressive video assessment system. The AIM Language Professional (ALP) web site has...
Friday, March 11, 2011

Reflections on Software Quality

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There is no avoiding software testing, and no matter at what stage of the software development life-cycle you are, testing will happen. Over...
Wednesday, March 09, 2011

Daughters first radio interview as a musician

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Wow!!! I am one proud parent! My Daughter ( Ana Rose ) was interviewed on CJSF 90.1 FM. She had (with other rock campers) the opportunity ...

A New Culture of Learning

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"A New Culture of Learning: Cultivating the Imagination for a World of Constant Change", Douglas Thomas and John Seely Brown. J...
Saturday, March 05, 2011

Consolidation of blogs

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A month ago I decided to move my website hosting all over to rackspace and this has been progressing very well. Changing hosting providers...
Thursday, March 03, 2011

Internal corporate blogging

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With such large numbers of knowledgeable and skilled people retiring, wouldn’t it make sense to have them blog (or contribute to a wiki) e...
Tuesday, March 01, 2011

Sir Isaac Newton and Lorenz's Butterfly

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Oh the wonders of Morris Dancing. I came to a deeper understanding of one of our dances over the last week. The dance is known as Lorenz...
Friday, February 25, 2011

Networked and Open also means Collaborative

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This is what the Networked and Open PhD (NOPhD) is all about. It is about working with others in an open and collaborative way so everyone d...
Monday, February 21, 2011

Networked and Open PhD (#nophd)

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So I've committed to using " nophd " as my hashtag rather than " onphd ". Why? for a number of reasons; NoPhD has...
Sunday, February 20, 2011

Pipe and Tabor

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So my first steps toward "nophd" begin. I have ordered a couple of pipes from the taborers society . And I have purchased a couple...