State of the Union Address and other ramblings

Jun 30

State of the Union Address and other ramblings

This is the time of year when hopefully many of us take time to reflect on a year’s work. Many of us don’t see our work in these increments but certainly we’d like our students to reflect. I’m proud of the fact that my weblog is my constant reflection. That said, here are a few things I think are highlights for me this year: completing my...

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So much for Creative Commons

Jun 28

CNN.com – A lesson in finance: Teachers sell their original work online – Jun 28, 2006 Is this a slap in the face to Open Source and Creative Commons or is there something good here? Realisitically how many teachers are paying for online resources now? Is this the notion of “if it’s free it can’t be good”? technorati...

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Remixing MySpace

Jun 26

Remixing MySpace

CNN.com – MySpace generation going online for yearbooks – Jun 26, 2006 Your yearbook committee may be obsolete. Well there are many good arguments why this won’t work, there are some compelling reasons why this is a valuable idea. A group of teenagers have created a site called MyYearbook.com to create student designed yearbooks. …during...

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I like this title

Jun 22

I like this title

I think I’ll go with this from now on…I like it.

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Just in time learning?

Jun 22

Just in time learning?

I always like the little comic avatars some people use in their profiles. (see Rob) Never sure how to create one, I did a bit of searching yesterday to see if there was either some free software or some tutorials using existing software. My photo and image editor of choice has always been Fireworks. I do have Photoshop installed but quite frankly have never had a...

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