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Archive for October, 2003

Educational Communications & Technology

2003/10/23

Educational Communications & Technology :: A newish weblog from Rick Schwier, one of my profs in the Educational Communication and Technology program at the University of Saskatchewan. The archives aren’t quite figured out yet (maybe I should enlighten him about TypePad!) but he had an interesting post about wikis and blogs in education (coming from [...]

Brent Wilson schmoozing begins

2003/10/15

9:10 – after some introductions and handshakes around the room, Brent is sitting down and Rick is giving an impressive intro. Jay is videotaping the proceedings – this may show up on one of Rick’s classes in the future ;^) BTW I apologize in advance for all misspellings of people’s names. Feel free to comment [...]

Brent Wilson Scrum

2003/10/15

In about 10 minutes, Brent Wilson will be here in the hidden room in the Education building at the University of Saskatchewan for an informal chat with students in the Masters of Educational Communication and Technology program. We’re doing a lot of talking about blogs in the field these days, so it only seemed fitting [...]

cogdogblog: Print Styles for MovableType Blogs

2003/10/15

cogdogblog: Print Styles for MovableType Blogs :: A big tip o the hat to Alan Levine from Maricopa Community College for his instructions on creating style sheets to make printed pages from Movable Type look nice. Now if only I could do something like that in TypePad – Ben and Mena, are you listening? Addendum [...]

Why tables for layout is stupid: problems defined, solutions offered

2003/10/15

Why tables for layout is stupid: problems defined, solutions offered :: If you ever wanted to know why you should move to using CSS for layout instead of tables, read this. Thanks to elearnspace

The Problem with Abundance

2003/10/15

The Problem with Abundance :: Remember Peter de Jager? He was one of the prime prophets of Y2K apocalypse scenarios – I’m sure producers of gas powered generators are still living well thanks to him. He has aparently metamorphosed into a futurist (which is somewhat like being a religious prophet, but with better a better [...]