Dear everyone,
2016 has been a big and different year in many ways. I have been traveling a journey which brought some answers to questions I have been asking for some time now. Lots of learning and some unexpected revelations I’d like to share with you in my 2016 annual review.…
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It’s also example of doing something that only I would want to do and yet having that thing echo into eternity without any additional effort.
from: API Nirvana – The Content – Bionic Teaching
Tom Woodward writing about his love of APIs, one of a series of posts.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...…Intervision, the 70s Soviet answer to the Eurovision Song Contest, was judge by electricity grid voting: “those watching at home had to turn their lights on when they liked a song and off when they didn’t, with data from the electricity network then being used to allocate points.”
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…There are also evil women. I didn’t go looking for them either. This is what I type: “a-r-e w-o-m-e-n”. And Google offers me just two choices, the first of which is: “Are women evil?” I press return. Yes, they are. Every one of the 10 results “confirms” that they are, including the top one, from a site called sheddingoftheego.com,
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maybe, in concert with an emphasis on making and collaborating and bug reporting and embracing other values of the open web, individuals can help reorient the cultural attitude toward technology away from entanglement and back to a place of enlightenment.
The Age of Entanglement – The Atlantic
Interesting Article.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...This past Saturday a group of enthusiastic Open Access advocates met to attend OpenCon 2016 Toronto held at TWG (The Working Group) on Adelaide St. in Toronto. Lorraine Chuen, Co-Founder of OOO Canada Research Network hosted the event.
The first speaker of the day was Leslie Chan, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Arts, Culture and Media and the Centre for Critical Development Studies at the University of Toronto, Scarborough. …
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One of my favourite sayings is, “No problems, just solutions.”
Educators face many challenges today. Class size and composition, reduction in funding and services, and the adoption of multiple initiatives involving curriculum and reporting.
In my current teaching position I would identify two urgent problems, or as I like to refer to them – challenges.
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Some thoughts about making choices about the software and systems you use, they may have hidden positives or negatives.
Featured image, iPhone screenshot, edited in snapseed
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I am a pretty regular podcast listener, mostly while commuting. Recently though I’ve been listing to iPlayer radio on the drive home. I listen to today on the way in. This week I’ve restarted the podcast habit.
I’ve listened to one old friend and a couple of new ones.…
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