Its time once again for another stigmergicweb podcast, and you can find it at: http://www.omegageek.net/podcasts/stigwebpdcst_2005-02-28.mp3. This is the first podcast since upgrading to MixCast Live 0.9.3 – I love the improved metering!! I’ve also upgraded WordPress to version 1.5, which is supposed to give me automagic enclosures when I link to an audio file – [...]
Archive for February, 2005
Podcast #7 – Reformation and Schools
2005/02/28Sofia Project publishes open courses
2005/02/25The Sofia Project is an open courseware project, similiar to MIT’s OpenCourseware, but geared to the community college level. Eight courses have been published online so far, including a very well developed course on web page design using HTML. I just had a grade 11 class finish a unit on web page design, and I [...]
Guru of the Obvious
2005/02/24The Guru of the Obvious has declared: Join me! Become a Lighips representative! I am a balls-out Nietzchean superman. As the Field Marshall of eLearning Supremacy I survey the battlefield that is higher education, and find it much to my liking. What are you Ed Tech Weblogger, ally or enemy? I, for one, welcome our [...]
No Books, No Problem
2005/02/24The lesson plans scripted by textbooks rarely leave room to deviate from standardized curriculum, but such detours are essential to confront and correct students’ misunderstandings. writes Geoff Ruth in No Books, No Problem. Its great to read about other teachers tossing textbooks in their classes. In my Biology classes, I stopped using the textbook completely [...]
Upgrade to WP 1.5
2005/02/24Okay – it only took a few minutes, and there are a couple of tweaks I still want to fix up. Other than that, it looks like its working. That was pretty darn easy! I might try running through a fresh install in a directory just to see how that works. One of the things [...]
An Alternate History of Podcasting
2005/02/23An Alternate History of Podcasting – without any mention of Dave or Adam
Studio A build walls now visible
2005/02/23Studio A build walls now visible Originally uploaded by tod. Tod Maffin has some photos up of the construction of his home studio. For some reason, it reminds me of Les Nessman’s tape walls on the floor on WKRP.
Podcast #6 (from the big computer lab)
2005/02/21Show notes for Stigmergicweb Podcast # 6: Sound levels are still a bit high, so don’t turn up your headphone volume too much! Hunter S. Thompson suicide – I am saddened to hear of the death of the man who is, in many ways, the person that many bloggers/podcasters are trying to emulate. Alec Couros [...]
Take Back the Web
2005/02/19My posts on the state of schools (conclusion reached – they suck, but I think there is reason for hope) seem to be on the same trail where some of the other ants are wondering. Two recent posts from Darren Cannell – Dark Age of Information/Take Back the Web – and Will Richardson Take Back [...]
Strayhorn is available for download
2005/02/15The latest version of WordPress, nicknamed Strayhorn, has been officially released and is available for download. I have already done so, and I hope to have the blog upgraded later tonight. Wish me luck!
