Archive for March, 2006

Trading in Torture - Where will citizenship education lead?

Friday, March 31st, 2006

I'm kicking back on the couch with Bonnie and the cat, trying to get some of the ideas that have been flooding through my head over the last couple of days into print. I don't know if its the springtime, or a return to a slightly more normal life that ...

Middle Adopters - Seeing ‘the second wave’ as an audience.

Wednesday, March 29th, 2006

Fingers full of paint flipping over a keyboard propped on my lap, on an evening following a day that actually smelled like spring. Spring that brings all the little jobs that need to get done, Spring that brings the leaves out of the trees we planted last year (hopefully). It's ...

Wikipedia not as accurate as Britannica… bad Nature.

Thursday, March 23rd, 2006

The debate about whether digital universe is better than wikipedia is better than britannica is better than my mom? Irrelevant. There are no gatekeepers protecting knowledge. Or at least, the gatekeepers are very difficult to find and/or they can't do their jobs very well anymore. What we have now are salespeople, ...

WIKIS in education - Wikitextbooks and the edtech curriculum project

Monday, March 20th, 2006

We've been working on a couple of projects over the last couple of weeks. It's been a wild ride, trying to balance the live work and encourage the asynchronous work... Live wiki building is, well, pretty busy work. There has been some confusion regarding the separation between the two projects... ...

The fine company I keep.

Saturday, March 11th, 2006

Good early morning to all of you. 5:39am here on the red dirt isle and I'm finishing my prep for a  5 hour class I'll be teaching at ten... Crisp here, even in my house, and I'm soaking in that intense quiet of the early morning. An intense quiet disturbed ...

The Best Damn New Media Curriculum evah! - has a new title.

Friday, March 3rd, 2006

EdTech Barnraising - Building a New Media Curriculum There's the title. Others might be considered, or better found, but i like this one. I like the image of a community coming together to build something we all agree needs to be built. All contributing the skills that they have, their more ...

Server Mayhem, google cache and this blog

Wednesday, March 1st, 2006

Well... well well... The worldbridges server died. Long live the worldbridges server. We lost everything. No backups. All 125 websites, all the blog posts, content, forum posts, audio... everything. We just had the stuff we had scattered on our computers. I spent that whole of Monday morning mourning all the work we've ...

A Plan for a New Media Curriculum - Online Work Conference

Wednesday, March 1st, 2006

February 19th, 2006 It’s been a tough year for blogging. I’ll spare you fine people the details, suffice it to say, that i’ve got a few things that i’m trying to get to. I’ll try and do a wrap up of a few projects this week, and get some help ...

Wikitextbooks - Moving Forward.

Wednesday, March 1st, 2006

wow. what a week. I’ve been talking to all kinds of cool people over the last week, and have been spending pretty much every waking hour working on either the wikitext project or on the project at my university. The time has come, I think, for a model of where ...

Wikibooks - Notes on the project

Wednesday, March 1st, 2006

wow… January is supposed to be involve painful attempts at exercise and sneaking christmas chocolats… not this wicked influx of work. It’s good fun though, and, after taking a couple of hours to chill out and play a little crochinole, i thought i’d post a few notes from the show ...