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Archive for May, 2005

The deluge of AMTEC bloggers begins

2005/05/29

Raj Boora attended my presentation on Weblog Communities at AMTEC, and this prompted him to start blogging again – check out his new blog EDITing in the Dark Any other bloggers out there who attended the AMTEC conference in Calgary? Leave a comment, and I’ll put together a list of AMTEC bloggers.

Hello from AMTEC

2005/05/27

Hello. I am presenting a session on weblog communities from AMTEC2005. Rick Schwier is also taking notes, and he’s not here to stop me from linking to his blog.

From AMTEC 2005 in Calgary

2005/05/25

It was a super first day for the AMTEC 2005 conference started by great keynote by John Seely Brown. Rick Schwier has been blogging the conference (so I can just be lazy and link to him). Here is Rick’s post on JSB’s keynote – Rick’s Café Canadien: AMTEC 2005 – John Seely Brown

Congrats to Rick Schwier

2005/05/20

Way to go, Rick! That’s a grand-slam homer!! Rick’s Café Canadien: Free cappucinos in the café 2005 3M Teaching Fellows announced

Off to AMTEC

2005/05/20

I’m heading off to AMTEC 2005 in Calgary next week, so some of my current projects (like the Generic High School) will be on hold for a little while. This weekend, I’ll be spending a bit of time putting together my presentation – Weblog Communities: Emerging Environments for On-line Learning. Here’s the description: This presentation [...]

Revenge of the Sith

2005/05/20

I promise I’m not going to start doing movie reviews. There are tons of bloggers who do movie review far more eloquently than I could, so I’m not going to do it. But, I just have to say that RotS was great! I could be critical about the flaws in the movie – they were [...]

I'm so glad to have a daughter!

2005/05/18

Thanks to Darren Cannell for this: Raising Boys. The tears in my eyes are from a combination of laughter and relief that the sperm with the X chromosome got there first!

Generic High School – description

2005/05/15

I’ve had some great feedback from my podcast Why Schools Need Drupal, as well as the generic high school site I am prototyping using Drupal. Dries Buytaert was even kind enough to encourage me to repost the blog entry from the podcast on the Drupal site and promote it to the front page. One net [...]

Podcasts as learning tools

2005/05/11

I’ve wondered for a while about what kind of models might be developed for the ways that podcasting can be used as tools for learning. There are a few examples that have started to reach my attention. I’d like to share a couple of these with you, and if you know of any other good [...]

StigmergicWeb Podcast #10 – Why schools need Drupal

2005/05/09

I could have used my time productively tonight, but instead I put together a brand new stigmergicweb podcast, looking at school websites and how to improve their functionality. Problems with many existing school websites: out of date information poor navigation, cluttered web pages (clown pants page design) content is maintained by a single person or [...]