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January, 2020
31st: Taking notes on Tiago Forte's Just-in-Time Project Management
2017
January, 2017
5th: From Seminar to Lecture to MOOC
2015
September, 2015
3rd: Sending and receiving email with Elixir
August, 2015
26th: Email notifications about errors in Elixir
21st: Elixir Prelude: Packing up utility functions
April, 2015
19th: Fun with terminal and Vim macros
February, 2015
20th: OpenEdX and LTI: Pedagogical scripts and SSO
January, 2015
23rd: Random German Stuff that Matters - great content auf Deutsch
2014
October, 2014
14th: Starting data analysis/wrangling with R: Things I wish I'd been told
3rd: A pedagogical script for idea convergence through tagging Etherpad content
3rd: Supporting idea convergence through pedagogical scripts and Etherpad APIs, an introduction
September, 2014
22nd: Easy interoperability between Ruby and Python scripts with JSON
April, 2014
16th: Creating Anki cards for Russian Coursera MOOC with stemming and frequency lists
March, 2014
11th: Learning idiomatic Haskell with Exercism.io
10th: Parsing massive clicklogs, an approach to parallel Python
9th: GNU Parallel, quick and easy
2013
October, 2013
17th: Playing with word stemming and frequencies in Russian
16th: Tuesday morning hack: Rename, resize and upload image, and get Markdown link
2nd: Blogging with Nanoc: Easy workflow for embedding images
2nd: Likert-graphs in R, embedding metadata for easier plotting
September, 2013
29th: Fun with Julia, metaprogramming and Sublime Text
29th: Moving my blog to a VPS
May, 2013
21st: Workshop on Scholarly Markdown in San Francisco
April, 2013
6th: Tweets from Coursera Partner's Conference
6th: Impressions from the first Coursera conference
2nd: Switching from WordPress to nanoc, jumping in feet first
March, 2013
29th: Time tracker one week on, new features
28th: Link-helper for Markdown, using Google Chrome history and other sources
24th: Unique publication IDs in open scholar search
22nd: Tweets from Beyond the PDF 2
18th: More thoughts on quantified self, tracking and visualizing
16th: Unobtrusive time tracker, visualizing time spent with Ruby and R
February, 2013
23rd: Open Access at IgniteAlberta
January, 2013
25th: Making Open Access articles much more visible, automatically
25th: Integrating iPhone photography with wiki for note-taking during conference
2012
October, 2012
22nd: Open Access Week 2012: Looking back at five years of OA talks
22nd: Knowledge Media Design: Fundamental Principles
August, 2012
10th: Closing down Virtual University of Pakistan index
June, 2012
13th: tag-extract: A tool to automatically restructure text/outline using tags
8th: Search 40+ edutech wikis
May, 2012
10th: Using web clipping and sidewiki to gather and synthesize information
April, 2012
24th: OISE/University of Toronto gets an Open Access policy!
17th: API to check if a publication is "Open Access"
16th: Weekly review April 15, 2012
11th: "Semantic" Researchr/DokuWiki search
8th: Weekly review April 8, 2012
8th: Peer learning and distributed open courses
February, 2012
8th: Results of a 1.5 year academic publishing experiment
8th: Two articles about Chinese open courses published
2nd: My one month Russian challenge
1st: Great example of science inquiry learning from Chinese village school
2011
August, 2011
9th: Open Courses and Informal Learning in a Web 2.0 World: A Research Agenda
9th: ICETC in Changchun: International conferences in China
4th: Interview with a CSCL Intro follower/lurker
July, 2011
21st: Notes from Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning conference 2011
June, 2011
20th: Participation statistics of CSCL intro
9th: GroupScribbles and pedagogical patterns
7th: GCCCE 2011 in Hangzhou
6th: CSCL-intro the Bi-Weekly #10
4th: Scaffolding and support for collaborative learning
1st: Chinese translation of MA thesis on Top Level Courses available
May, 2011
28th: Cohere: A prototype for contested collective intelligence
26th: Conceptually explicit representations for group learning and representational guidance
23rd: Etherpad + small groups in Skype, a new way of doing P2PU meetings
19th: CSCL-intro The Bi-Weekly #7
19th: Contributions to a Theoretical Framework for CSCL
18th: All the raw notes from my MA thesis: Chinese National Top Level Courses
18th: Junior Researchr: A design proposal
17th: Knowledge building: theory, pedagogy and technology
17th: Notes from AERA11 in New Orleans
17th: Grappling with ideas: convergence and divergence
April, 2011
27th: CSCL-intro "The Biweekly" #1
26th: CSCL-intro week 1: Constructivism
26th: Grading: evaluative or coercive?
25th: New P2PU course: Intro to Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning
5th: P2PU Future Scenario on Collaboration
March, 2011
31st: Guess that language
25th: Open Courses done right: Saylor Foundation
4th: Tweets from Learning Analytics conference 2011
3rd: Notes from Learning Analytics Conference 2011: Day 2
February, 2011
28th: Notes from Learning Analytics Conference 2011: Day 1
27th: Notes from Learning Analytics Conference 2011: Pre-conference
January, 2011
3rd: Interview with CICIStudy: Chinese portal for OpenCourseWare courses
2010
December, 2010
20th: New Chinese blog, and translating my thesis to Chinese
9th: P2PU in 24 different languages!
9th: The Chinese Top Level Courses Project: Conclusion and directions for further research
8th: The power of models and examples, understanding the role of the Top Level Courses Project in China
7th: Two metaphors for professors and course delivery, comparing North America and China
7th: OER for a multicultural classroom: the student as user, and producer
6th: The power of personal relationships in the spread of the OpenCourseWare model
3rd: How the world misunderstood the Chinese Top Level Courses Project
2nd: Case studies of OpenCourseWare in Japan, Taiwan and South Korea
1st: The impact of MIT's OpenCourseWare model on the Top Level Courses Project
November, 2010
29th: The future of Chinese Top Level Courses
29th: Comparison of Chinese Top Level Courses with MIT OpenCourseWare
27th: Critiques of the Chinese Top Level Courses Project in the Chinese literature
26th: Commercial ecosystem around Chinese Top Level Courses
25th: Ebooks finally come to Norway
25th: The Jingpinke.com Portal for Chinese open courses
October, 2010
30th: How and by whom are the Chinese Top Level Courses used?
29th: Effects of the Top Level Courses Project for institutions
28th: Effects of being selected as Top Level Course for individual professors
27th: Case studies of applying for the Top Level Courses designation
26th: Introducing individual Top Level Courses case studies
25th: Institutional perspectives on the Chinese National Top Level Courses Project
24th: How to be an open scholar (OA week 2010)
24th: Two stages of development of the Chinese National Top Level Courses Project
14th: Development of the selection criteria for China's Top Level Courses Project
13th: Course selection criteria for the Chinese Top Level Courses
12th: Inception of the Chinese Top Level Courses Project
11th: Massification of higher education, and prestige projects
10th: Norwegian interview about Chinese Top Level Courses and OER production
10th: Course evaluations and quality assurance in Chinese higher education
8th: The beginning of course evaluations in Chinese universities
5th: Chinese higher ed after the Cultural Revolution: continuity and change
3rd: Chinese higher ed during Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution
2nd: Russia's influence on Chinese higher ed - 1949-1958
September, 2010
27th: Open Governance week 1: Acting like baboons
22nd: OER from the perspectives of world institutionalism and policy borrowing
17th: Categorizing OER based on four purposes
16th: Definition of Open Educational Resources
15th: ePub version of MA thesis
14th: Introduction: MIT courses and Chinese open courses
13th: MA thesis on Open Educational Resources in China released, watch it fly
August, 2010
30th: New Peer2Peer University Courses!
23rd: Personal Learning Environments Networks and Knowledge 2010
June, 2010
30th: How P2PU fits into the open ed landscape, and why we call ourselves a university
8th: Presentation: Viewing Open Education from the Perspectives of Knowledge Building and Connectivism
8th: How to sync slides with audio/video, a few alternatives
7th: Many Chinese web sites on global top 1000 list
7th: Interview about P2PU on Campus Tech Connections
6th: Tune in to Campus Tech Connections today!
May, 2010
22nd: Textbooks for Virtual University of Pakistan / OER for International Understanding
21st: The Virtual University of Pakistan has 6,000 hours of video lectures on Youtube
16th: Connectivism and transculturality -- notes from a talk by Stephen Downes
15th: Youtube lovefest
12th: Around the world with Cory Doctorow's writings
6th: How to cite Chinese sources in Chicago style
4th: Notemonk, innovative Indian website combining open textbooks and social learning
3rd: Open Access Journals: CC Bait and Switch?
3rd: CC Bait and Switch Update: e-Century responds
3rd: Is TD "aapna" bank? Appealing to the South Asian community
3rd: What is happening with Universal Library? Open letter to Dr. Raj Reddy at CMU
1st: P2PU and homeschoolers?
April, 2010
29th: Personal time tracker with Ruby and Growl
28th: Read community blogs on P2PU Planet!
19th: EdFutures: First post
19th: Open Scholars and Divergence/Convergence, Groups/Networks
12th: Manipulating list of tweets with TextMate (with screencast)
March, 2010
28th: Peer2Peer University in the news
February, 2010
28th: Key numbers from China's 2010-2020 education plan
January, 2010
20th: OER and P2PU: Talk at Indira Gandhi National Open University
19th: Equitable Governance in Multilingual Wikipedia
14th: Tweets from Critical Point of View: WikiWars conference in Bangalore
2009
December, 2009
21st: Harper Valley PTA/Fru Johnsen/Fr36ken Fredriksson
November, 2009
19th: Article about Peer2Peer University in L'Actualit39
19th: Innovative projects in the publishing of OER
1st: Creating a "dictionary" from KDE translation files
October, 2009
28th: The ethical review process for social science research
28th: Identity rap from Norwegian-Egyptian
25th: Combining OERs with Wikipedia - a winning combination
25th: Korean teachers make \$10 million/year by producing online resources
19th: Stories of peace, from China and Ukraine
August, 2009
30th: Comparative Education Review partially opens peer-review
27th: Encouraging sharing without getting all lawyery
27th: Conversation with Leigh Blackall
June, 2009
19th: Tweets from OAI6 on Open Access in Geneva
9th: On critically engaging with other people's writing
9th: PhD thesis on learning object reuse, and some ponderings
4th: Talk in Chinese at SocialLearnlab: Social Learning
May, 2009
25th: New talk in Chinese: Understanding the meaning of open education, expanding the definition of OER
April, 2009
27th: Cantonese the Movie: Killer Tattoo Death Dragon Master Black Hand Massacre Misunderstanding
27th: Open Education - lecture in Chinese at South China Normal University
13th: Digitized books on Aceh - but are they accessible to Acehnese?
5th: Language representation among DOAJ Open Access journals
March, 2009
20th: Public domain books in many languages
19th: Summer plans
19th: 407 Indonesian textbooks openly available
16th: "Open education around the world" presentation at OISE
16th: Open Education Videos around the world: The Making Of
16th: Open Education panel at Dean's Graduate Conference
12th: Links from the talk Open education around the world
February, 2009
23rd: The English-Chinese dictionary, revisited
17th: Open Access news from Norway
16th: Release early, release often: English-Chinese dictionary based on Wikipedia
12th: Slideshare has great customer support
12th: Presentation on OpenCourseWare in China posted to Slideshare
4th: Large market for Spanish-language books in the US
January, 2009
31st: How to get Bokeen Cybook v3 ebook reader to display Chinese with Stanza
27th: Upcoming: A theoretical approach to accreditation of Open Education
25th: One size does not fit all: A case study of the spread of OpenCourseWare to India, China and Japan.
25th: Upcoming Presentation: Open Education Around the World
25th: Global Concept, Local Practices: State of the Research on OCW in Chinese
20th: Cathy Casserly to head new OER program at Carnegie Foundation
18th: Article about Indonesian reading gardens in IFLA newsletter
18th: Interview about Peer2Peer University at P2P Foundation
16th: Open Access e-books at University of Oslo
11th: How to restore your hacked WordPress database from Google Cache through Ruby
11th: Blog hacked - returns from the dead
2008
December, 2008
5th: World's largest university opens almost ALL its materials!
4th: Chinese Python, multilingual programming #2
4th: How to design ballots, great report
November, 2008
21st: Chinese Python: Translating a programming language
19th: Adopted musician, Sweden, and two kinds of open access
10th: Theoretical frameworks for researching OER
10th: African Journals Online - wonderful, but I want access
9th: What28099s happening with OpenLibrary and OCA
October, 2008
26th: Peer2Peer University - week one
26th: OMG! Toronto *finally* has a transit route planner
18th: Michael Wesch strikes again - must see video about innovation in higher ed
17th: Do you speak other languages, but surf only in English?
17th: The great international OCW debate
9th: 27 female edubloggers from ZaidLearn
September, 2008
29th: International students in Canada, extending student permit
23rd: OCWC Logan 08: news and reflections
20th: Mencerdaskan Bangsa - An Inquiry into the Phenomenon of Taman Bacaan in Indonesia
August, 2008
24th: 2809CWhy I Deserve an OpenEd 2008 Scholarship.2809D
14th: Talk at IIPA in Delhi on open research, OER and open learning in developing countries (slidecast)
10th: Opensource Fellowships and localization into Indic languages at SARAI
10th: Indian reactions to the Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony
3rd: OpenLibrary and Universal Library, guys work together!
1st: Very exciting new initiative to organize research around open education
July, 2008
26th: Size of Wikipedia in different Indic languages
20th: Is your course schedule full yet? Some great offerings (Wiley wikis)
19th: Celebrating first book read in a foreign language
18th: Finally Toronto in the movies - Kismat Konnection
June, 2008
27th: Can one-party systems be more accountable than democracies?
2nd: Some observations and suggestions about the Rural China Education Foundation library programs at two rural sites
2nd: Many small improvements make a harmonious society (和谐社会)?
May, 2008
13th: Chongqing, Hechuan via Beijing to Linqing
April, 2008
29th: Anatomy of a Chinese 网吧 (cybercafe)
29th: A paean to Chinese bookstores
28th: Wuhan, where have you been all these years?
13th: Support Weng Diedie in going back to Mosuo
12th: Free and public domain language courses
11th: Screencast of Wikipedia offline (zip-doc)
11th: Pick out text based on formatting, OpenOffice/Ruby trick
10th: Ethiotube: you a tube, me a tube, everyone a tube-tube
7th: More thoughts on Indonesian project to buy copyrights
7th: Reading list dump
7th: Indonesian text books: First copyrights bought
6th: Many great free textbooks from India
6th: OpenCourseWare around the world: China and India
3rd: Online conferences, teaching and learning in Second Life, SLanguages 2008
2nd: Google Books step aside - OpenLibrary makes reading fun
1st: Sore di Tugu Pancoran, Iwan Fals
March, 2008
12th: Berita Kepada Kawan, Ebiet G. Ade
12th: Berita Kepada Kawan, Ebiet G. Ade
10th: Distributing Ruby applications, Ruby temporary insanity
9th: Individual article statistics for Wikipedia: Endless amusement
7th: Git, Gitorious.org and Zip-doc (offline Wikipedia)
7th: A "Fair Trade" logo for academic research?
1st: And all because, he decided to walk that day2806
February, 2008
25th: PhotoDropper - making blogging with CC pictures painless
17th: Prokem, bahasa gaul, language inventiveness
16th: Peranakan literature in Indonesia
16th: Is Chinese the new French?
13th: The Gardener, by Rabindranath Tagore, II
12th: The Gardener, by Rabindranath Tagore (excerpt)
12th: Cat's Crossing, and list of Toronto-related fiction
10th: Using Wikipedia as an authoritative list: National libraries and IFLA
8th: Indonesian government wants to buy text book copyrights
January, 2008
24th: Jian Ghomeshi on Media Literacy at York University
22nd: Learning languages, working abroad in international development
20th: Release early, release often: Hindi-English StarDict dictionary
19th: Ruby: Converting between two types of URL escaping
10th: Providing multilingual services - if the Iranian can do it...
9th: My ideal research/annotation tool
2007
December, 2007
18th: Completely non-representative reflections on New York
13th: Tagging individual links
10th: Amharic dance videos
7th: Microsoft gives you beautiful short films
7th: Learn Swedish
4th: Republishing Links
November, 2007
27th: OpenEd: Week 13
22nd: OpenEd: Why I was distracted I
22nd: OpenEd: Week 12
22nd: Tools: Always find the longest Wikipedia article in a language you know
22nd: OpenEd: Why I was distracted II
14th: Mass tertiary education in the developing world
14th: Poem in the morning
13th: Tools and hacks: Wikipedia redirect
11th: Subtitling II: Nothing is new under the stars
1st: OpenEd: Week 10
October, 2007
28th: OpenEd: Week 9, Wikinomics
24th: OpenEd: Week 8
19th: OpenEd: Notes from week 8 readings
16th: Boxroom - Ruby on Rails file repository
8th: OpenEd: Week 7
September, 2007
30th: Online tools and the Burma protests
30th: Website design in China
27th: Reading MIT OCW Case Studies and Evaluation Report
23rd: OpenEd: Week 4
23rd: OpenEd: Notes from reading week 4, A Review of Open Educational Resources
23rd: OpenEd: Notes from reading week 2, Giving Knowledge for Free
21st: MA program in free software development
21st: Quick links - Chinese students in the US
10th: Political TV debates in Norway
1st: Multicultural television in Norway
August, 2007
31st: OpenEd: Week 1
February, 2007
15th: Wikipedia Offline Server 0.2
2006
May, 2006
10th: Lovely University of Toronto campus, a walk-through
5th: Teaching political science at Tsinghua University
3rd: Indonesian dictionary/mouseover: Terbang Dengan Bahasa Indonesia
2nd: Screencast: Wenlin helps you read Chinese
April, 2006
24th: Down, up, and move: Tales of DNS woes
15th: The Year of the Yao
10th: Seeing Like a State, by James C. Scott
9th: From China: Rabbis, cheating cadres and Uyghur music videos
March, 2006
31st: Bookmarklet for MyAccess, UofT libraries
31st: French accents, php, email and web development
28th: Taiwanese students want value for their money
26th: YubNub and UofT library catalogue access
26th: Chinese politicians on the internet: Fu Rong
15th: Update: Harvard documentary online
15th: Call to anthropologists: Make positive proposals
14th: Amazing pictures of high-density in Hong Kong
10th: Whose Education for All: The Recolonization of the African Mind
February, 2006
15th: Diversity in the US and Canadian university system
12th: Who has the rights to a name? Laos or L.A.?
7th: Congratulations: SODEXHO personell unionized!
January, 2006
2nd: Distance learning, epidemiology in the morning: UWTV
1st: Christmas in Africa: Youth media and Linux in Chad
2005
December, 2005
31st: Trains in America? Amtrak to LA!
16th: Newspaper Design: Awesome Polish Amnesty campaign over Belarus
16th: International TV channel?
8th: Brain drain
7th: Sound letters
2nd: Eliminate pennies
November, 2005
10th: The End of Poverty, by Jeffrey Sachs
9th: Why did outsourcing to India take off?
1st: Paypal meets micro finance
October, 2005
31st: Changing concepts of universities
19th: Statistics; Norway and Canada
11th: Online learning
11th: Ivy League admissions
4th: SUV sales down!
2nd: Subway maps and IP
2nd: Ethiopian doctors
September, 2005
18th: Spending money, difficult decisions
August, 2005
29th: The Art Haus hostel in Asheville, NC
25th: Thank you, Memphis!
25th: Frosh nostalgia
22nd: People don't steal in Fayetteville
16th: The Wisdom of Crowds
16th: Albuquerque Rocks! (And Poetry Slams Too)
11th: Phone crime and DVD rental
9th: Los Angeles: the Zen of travelling
2nd: Travel observations
2nd: Abbrevations
July, 2005
19th: Politicsofhealth.org
13th: Voces inocentes
8th: Barefoot Doctors in China
8th: Privilegied!
June, 2005
30th: GMaps, buses, open apis
30th: Delete the Public Space
16th: Coding in Ruby
10th: Sleeper buses and design
May, 2005
26th: Mexico City, UNAM, Hunger, Butterflies
25th: Mexico City, UNAM, Hunger, Butterflies
25th: The Hungry Tide
13th: Color revolutions
April, 2005
29th: Mastering the Machine Revisited
25th: Shadow Cities: A Billion Squatters, A New Urban World
25th: Taiwan: A Political History
24th: Calculated Kindness
2004
October, 2004
31st: Live from Ottawa
28th: Libraries in the Tech Age (ListenIllinois)
19th: A career at the UN?
13th: Political virii in China
4th: Kazakhstan: Father and Daughter face-off
September, 2004
27th: Conservative America
26th: Sharing Knowledge with Developing Countries