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Twitter By Proxy
Stephen had oatmeal for breakfast, so someone stepped up to keep the tweetverse informed:
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SPLJ 2.0
Yesterday I co-presented as part of four amigos for MacLearning Environments on (Many, Too Many?) Small Technologies Loosely Joined: Open, Connected, and Social. This was carried out via Elluminate hosted at the University of Calgary. The players were D'Arcy Norman, Brian Lamb, myself, and Jim Groom and we had a nice peppy crowd show up […]
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involver?
This month’s issue of Wired had a small blurb in the PLaylist section on YASS (Yet Another Social Service): involver.com Sure, Twitter’s fine if you must know what your friends are doing right now. But what are they doing next week? Try involver.com, which lets you list events you plan to attend and tag them […]
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Google Saves My Coding (again)
It’s hardly, hardly news anymore when a search in Google unveils the answer to a technical problem. But every time it happens, I get a tickle. Still. Like a newbie searcher. This borders on techno-trivia, but I’ve been working on some code that will allow us at NMC to create our own registration form to […]
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Google Reader Offline Bonus
Bet yer Bloglines cannot do this! One of the features I treasured in my desktop RSS reader (back when I used NetNewsWire) was that it would periodically download the lastest feeds and store the content on my computer. This meant then if I was offline (e.g. on a plane), I could still browse and read […]
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To Quote a Spammer
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The Flat Classroom Horizon Project
Doh! Sound of blog remorse! In writing about the CNI Horizon Project presentation, I was remiss in leaving out one of the coolest discoveries — that Vicki Davis (coolcatteacher in georgia) and 4 other secondary school teachers in Austria, Bangladesh, China, and Australia are doing another fabulous Flat Classroom project — and this one they […]
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Twitter Cycle
Have you heard just enough plaff about twitter the 2007 web love child? I have experienced and seen enough others experience the twitter cycle: “That is the stupidest thing I have ever heard of… who in their right mind would be doing that?” “Okay… if Xxxxxx and Yyyyyyy think this is cool, I will give […]
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Horizon Report Presented at CNI
Yesterday was a eventful day at the CNI Spring Task Force Meeting. My travel arrangements for this conference were pretty tricky — I got in my truck and drove 20 miles downtown to Phoenix. No lost luggage. This was my first ever attendance at a CNI conference; a different flavor of colleagues, so I got […]
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I Think He’s Turning (Japanese, Chinese?)
Found via an inbound ping: It looks like Stephen Downes is writing in new new tongues – http://www.edu2do.com/oldaily