This is something I have really been waiting for! PhotoDropper is a plugin for WordPress that enables you to seemlessly search for CC licensed pictures in Flickr and other databases, and with a click insert the picture into your blog, complete with the photo credit. I have always found it a pain to have to […]
One of the problems I had when learning Indonesian in Jakarta was that what people actually spoke seemed to be very distinct from what was in my textbooks (never mind that my textbooks were also about 20 years old, but most importantly they taught a very refined Indonesian. I remember on the title page was […]
Sometimes the world seems to be going in the right direction. The sun outside is beautiful, even in the cold Toronto weather, and I just found out that Obama won all three primaries along the Potomac, and the Harvard faculty voted yay to institute the first faculty-initiated open access mandate.
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I know that I am egregiously late with this assignment, and I apologize for that. In addition to some major events in my personal life, two important things have happened that are quite related to this course. The first is that I finally submitted my application for an MA in theory and policy studies at […]
When I started this blog a long time ago, I chose to license it under Creative Commons, and without much thought I selected BY-NC-SA, a license which allows you to share and remix my work, but under a non-commercial clause, and obligating you to distribute all derivative works under the same license. That was about […]
Open Educational Practices and Resources: OLCOS Roadmap 2012 (OLCOS, 149 pages)
The current focus in open resources for education and lifelong learning is mainly on providing access to more content in digital formats. There is little consideration of whether this will promote real innovation in teaching and learning.
reasons for lack of growth in European […]
Update: I apologize for a) posting a broken link and b) taking so long to fix it. Thank you to those who pointed it out, and please try again, it’s worth it.
I just found out that the excellent documentary on the sit-in at Harvard, that I mentioned in the last post, is available online! I […]
I have written before about access to education, distance learning and so on. Today I idly flipped through the 300 channels of our kind host in Idyllwild, after having checked that the float we visited for the Rosebowl made it through the rain. After checking out a few news programmes, a Spanish talk shows and […]
I saw the documentary Mad Hot Ballroom with a Hospitality Club friend in Kansas City this summer. She herself was training to be a teacher, and I believe her mother was a teacher, so the movie had a particular salience for them. It is about a group of children in inner-city NYC schools that take […]
Right now I am sitting in the library the University of Buffalo (visiting a friend over Thanksgiving), watching the last lecture for one of my classes - online. One of my classes is full, so I can take it online. The video is posted each week, and taken down after a week (to avoid you […]
