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Surfacing –> where exactly have i been for two months…

Monday, May 12th, 2008

Well... it's been quite a ride. For those of you who are interested in the good/complex of the my life on the personal side, do check out http://cribcronicles.com. Professionally, things have been moving on apace. I have great hopes that I'll be able to deal with each of these issues over ...

Living Archives and Opensim - Virtual PEI curriculum beta.

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

Well folks, tomorrow morning is a big day. I started writing the grant on this in the summer of 2006, have had piles and piles of help along the way and have now come down to it. We've got a website, we've got some great content researched and written by ...

Creating a Rhizomatic knowledge node on a website

Saturday, February 2nd, 2008

This is another attempt at showing what a rhizomatic build would look like. It fits in with an article I'm currently writing and a discussion paper that is dying in the draft section of this blog. I'm looking for feedback on this, so I do hope some of you will ...

In Memoriam - Bathurst High School Phantoms

Sunday, January 13th, 2008

A little over eighteen years ago, two weeks after I started high school at BHS, on September 16th, 1989 my brother died. Stephen was 22, a mentor, good buddy and pretty much all a 14 year old could wish for in an older brother. I spent a week at home, ...

Community Learning - what we’ve always done.

Thursday, January 10th, 2008

A conversation I had with S. Downes last year at CADE/AMTEC was brought back to mind this week in a blog post over at mctoonish. It seems I said something to the effect that calling something a 'personal' learning environments was to kind of miss the point. What we are ...

The difference between ‘free’ and free in education

Sunday, December 30th, 2007

Year ending and all that. I've had this post swirling around in my head for almost a year now and have it started three times and I've decided that in my attempts to clean out at the end of the year, I would take a shot at writing this properly There ...

Top 10 educational stories of 2007 - connectivism!

Saturday, December 8th, 2007

yes... i know it's still the beginning of December Mr. Downes. 10. Connectivism Many of us have taken a huge leap this year from the dungeons of our physical existence up to the light and wonder of connectivism. Each of us has had the wonderful experience of having hundreds of people send ...

The perfect geek linux/xp desktop setup with VMware?(non mac)

Saturday, November 10th, 2007

Hey folks... descending into geek land this week. I've been having a chat with John Schinker about an idea I had I think I'm going to go ahead and try, but first, I thought I would serve this up to the community and see if anyone other than John had ...

Internet –> democratizing agent? tool for prosocial change?

Friday, November 2nd, 2007

Hey folks... have spent most of my writing time the last couple of weeks trying to remember how to write an academic paper... but am back here responding to a call from the network. Alec Couros, who I've never had the pleasure of meeting but have spent much more time ...

Edugrids

Monday, October 8th, 2007

Edugrids is still in the concept phase. It's a proto-community for folks who are interested in using OpenSim for education.