Posts from ‘November, 2004’

I’m about halfway through my three week visit to Auckland New Zealand for an ambitious series of workshops at several schools here, and am bouncing between my regular CogDogBlog and its flipped over variant here CogDog(kiwi)Blog as well as two (or more) flickr sites. I may be losing track of where I leave my dribbles [...]

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Not So Yummyavailable on my flickr

I cannot get past the smell when the Marmite lid opens- how do the kiwis stand it? As Richard calls, it “axel grease” (but then again, he likes it)

I have yet to [...]

Pity the poor Teaching Wiki. Buried in s-p-a-m.
Beyond the vast WIkiPedia with legions of rabid followers, most little wikis are doomed. Doomed. Doooooomed. Yours may be next.

Here I talked about loving flickr and a few hour later I cannot log in- all attempts are bounced back to the home, un-logged in screen. Flushed the cache, cookies, been tried another browser.
Where is the love back? Unrequited? Is it just me? Does it hate my latest pictures? Sigh…. love is so [...]

The tagging features of flickr have taken the next step- elevating results of a display of shared photo tags to other relavant tag sets (see tag relatedness features).
For example, the flickr wide tags for where I am right now to more specific results as well as related topics. How does it do this? You have [...]

(Taking a break from my current Kiwi blogging action, cannot stay away). In Learning Objects: A Practical Definition Rory McGreal takes a somewhat noble effort to wrestle the learning object monster. I was looking for that grail like singular uber definition. Is it there?
I love reading things like:
LOs are sometimes defined as being educational resources [...]