Buried Bones (Archive) for October, 2004
Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this October 29th, 2004 9:20 am
As some of locals will be saying, “Kia Ora”…. This blog is about to be flipped.
In about 10 hours I am on my way to Auckland, New Zealand for 3 weeks of invited workshops primarily at my hosts at UNITEC with other visits scheduled to Auckland University of Technology (AUT), Waikato Institute of Technology, and [...]
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Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this October 29th, 2004 6:08 am
Wow, how do some of the key pioneers of the web have time to fun for elected positions in Arizona? Among the piles of colorful signs crowding every street corner, I have seen some familiar names pop out on the ballot for November 2…
Is Eric Meyer, who’s books and web sites have paved the way [...]
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Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this October 27th, 2004 11:48 pm
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Cog (No Dog) Railwayavailable on my flickr
This technology pulled us up 25% grades to the top of Pikes Peak, Colorado aboard the Cog Railway.
Yes, the camera has safely returned to Arizona, all 130 photos in tact.
Whew! [...]
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Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this October 27th, 2004 12:14 am
Actually, my vacation time in Colorado did wonders to revive my spirits after 4 days at the EDUCAUSE 2004 conference. I’ve grumbled before about the sour irony that the dominant mode of communication in our field of instructional technology (or pretty much all other conference gatherings) is the very unwired, tired…. 50 minute lecture [...]
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Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this October 26th, 2004 9:13 pm
Just returned home from 5 days of being a sightseeing fool up and down the Rocky Mountains following last week’s EDUCAUSE conference in Denver.
I’ve got a big of pile photos to flickr up, but it will be delayed following a harrowing experience having accidently leaving my digital camera at a restaurant in Colorado Springs, [...]
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Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this October 23rd, 2004 6:13 am
This blog will go into a period of non-activity the next few days as I work on a project requiring me to pretend to be a tourist in the Rocky Mountains. There will not be anything else posted on “project mini vacation”
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Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this October 21st, 2004 6:23 pm
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Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this October 21st, 2004 5:13 pm
This session will explore learning space design principles as a way to enhance and transform teaching and learning with technology. The principles acknowledge changes in our understanding of student cognition and faculty roles in the learning process. Well-configured Learning spaces make it possible for faculty and students to engage in active learning, thereby enhancing learning [...]
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Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this October 21st, 2004 11:32 am
Sakai is delivering an integrated open-source framework comprising an enterprise portal, a course management system, and a tool portability profile as a standard for writing future tools that can extend this core set of educational applications. Learn what Sakai has achieved and its direction for the future.
http://www.sakaiproject.org/
My comments: If I recall, Sakai is based on [...]
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Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this October 21st, 2004 9:45 am
Eeek. It is coming to my attention via email, comments, trackbacks, server logs, that more people than My mom are reading this blog (actually she doesn’t know about it).
Beyond scaring the ____ out of me, I felt it appropriate to say that my writing here is almost exclusively for my own uses, to track my [...]
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