Socratic Monologue
From the monthly archives: February 2005
Stephen Downes has once again managed to drop the seed crystal into the super-saturated solution that is my brain (at least something about my brain is super). In a recent essay, Emergent Learning: Social Networks and Learning Networks, Stephen has drawn together several threads from his OLdaily newsletter to weave a common theme about [...]
I’m not sure if I happen to be on a bit of an anti-school rant this week, or if the rest of the world is just catching up to my point of view. ;^) Another great blog posting found its way to me today via Darren Cannell, and the title pulls no punches: Continue Reading →
Thanks to Stephen (to whom I extend heartfelt felicitations on his newly minted bilingualness)for the link to this:
Yes, it’s only been ten years. And despite our memories of the crash of 2000, here are ten reasons why I believe that there’s about to be a significant flourishing of Net companies and business successes, [...]I’ve just spend about an hour reading up on some differences between Blackboard and Moodle. My recent love affair with Moodle has been documented here earlier (the experiment continues, and is working out even better than I imagined), but I thought a little equal time should be spent looking at the competition. So I went [...]
Its time for another stigmergicweb podcast! Here’s what I was on about this time:
New Setup Using the recently released MixCast Live to record From the MixCast FAQ – The minimum hardware requirement is a microphone, headphones and a compatible soundcard. MixCast Live is designed to work with the minimum of hardware. [...]Learning The Lessons of Nixon – 4 Minutes About Podcasting – Its actually closer to 5 minutes, if you include the credits. Well done – next time someone asks what this podcasting thing is all about, I’ll show them this video. Thanks to Lisa Williams for putting this together.
Rick Schwier mentioned in a class a while ago that Instructional Design was possibly one of the only design field that doesn’t habitually study design failures. This article – When Blogging Goes Bad: A Cautionary Tale about Blogs, Email Lists, Discussion and Interaction – is one instructor’s analysis of how he used blogs [...]
An interesting article – Why Does Windows Still Suck? Why do PC users put up with so many viruses and worms? Why isn’t everyone on a Mac? – was on the web site of the San Francisco gate today, written by Mark Morford. Precipitated by his significant others experience hooking her Wintel box to [...]
Between 12:18 and 12:25 this morning, I was hit 217 times by comment spammers. Thanks to the Spaminator, none of them got through. If anyone is considering switching to WordPress, the Spaminator plug-in is reason enough!
I realize I am tempting fate by announcing this. But I feel triumphant, although it may only [...]
Roy Peter Clark presents Fifty Writing Tools (thanks to Stephen for the heads up on this). One of the classes I taught last semester required students to write 2 fairly major papers. My academic training was originally in Genetics, and although I am occasionally capable of writing a decent paper, I have no [...]
Your thoughtful responses
Me tweeting
- My grade 9 students are learning/practicing photographic composition. See their work at http://t.co/c2lkNTDv
- @shareski I think you owe him for all the pictures of his kids you put in them.
- @shareski I thought design mattered.
- @cptteacher Thanks for your comments back to the students. They will be happily surprised to be getting comments from outside school.
- @pstratton08 Exactly my thoughts. And I think that knowing your work is going to be on display encourages students to find good photos.
