John Dvorak recently wrote on The Myth of Disruptive Technology. Here’s my favourite line: The concept of disruptive technology goes to the top of my list as the biggest crock of the new millennium. Yeah – sure thing, John. Coincidentally, many people consider John Dvorak to be the biggest crock of the old millenium (which [...]
Archive for September, 2004
The Myth of John Dvorak
2004/09/28Frontier goes open source
2004/09/28Frontier has been released as an open source project.
Students offended by distribution of printed listserv postings
2004/09/22Students offended by distribution of printed listserv postings | Kairosnews :: So, if you had participated in a class listserv, how would you feel if the instructor printed up the archives of the listserv and handed it out to your group as a tool for stimulating discussing? The students of the instructor quoted in the [...]
Click here to become infected
2004/09/22Click here to become infected :: The Register is reporting on a new reason to make sure you ditch Internet Explorer, and if you are using IE on Windows I can’t think of a better reason than this. This exploit uses a javascript extension proprietary to Internet Explorer to download an executable file to your [...]
India launches learning satellite
2004/09/20From BBC News, India launches learning satellite. According to the article, the project took 3 years and $17 million. Its great to see large scale projects that are dedicated to education; in this case the Edusat is going to be used to train teachers in India and link classrooms throughout the country. It is a [...]
"Get a Mac" is one defense against spyware
2004/09/19Alec Couros has recently advocated getting a Mac as a means of protection against spyware. True enough, but there are other methods: If you are using Windows, get Firefox! Firefox is a great browser, and a project of the Mozilla foundation. Mozilla is the open source project that started when Netscape released the program code [...]
David Wiley defends open education projects
2004/09/16wiley.ed.usu.edu – The Wrath of Kaa: A Letter to the Editors of The Register :: David Wiley has written an open letter to the editors of the Register taking them to task on their criticism of Wikipedia as an example of an open education project. It is too bad that the Register is taking such [...]
cogdogblog: Beautiful, Textbook Instructional Design… I Yawned All the Way to the Post Test
2004/09/15cogdogblog: Beautiful, Textbook Instructional Design… I Yawned All the Way to the Post Test::Alan Levine compares his experience with a beautifully designed, technically perfect piece of online instruction with the way he really learns what he needs to do in order to do his job. I appreciate his lament that there is a lot of [...]
Transition Turbulence
2004/09/15So far the transition to WordPress is going nicely. I have imported all my old entries from Movable Type, but all the old draft posts require that I change the date or else they show up as today (or whatever day I move them from draft to publish status). It would be much more convenient [...]
The new look
2004/09/15Ta-da – presenting the new and improved stigmergicweb! I have been wanting to try some new blogging tools for a while for a few different projects. D’Arcy Norman suggested WordPress, and I liked what I saw. I added Michael Heilemann’s Kubrick theme, and really liked what I saw! The transfer over of all my entries [...]
