Category: open source
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Open Minds: Open Education and Open Culture by David Thornburg
These are my notes from David Thornburg’s NECC 2008 presentation “Open Minds: Open Education and Open Culture” on June 30, 2008. David has granted me permission to non-commercially record and share this presentation subsequently. MY THOUGHTS AND REFLECTIONS ARE IN ALL CAPS. dthornburg [at] aol [dot] com David has handouts not related to this session,…
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Podcast259: Drupal for Education by John Jones
This podcast is a recording of a presentation by John Jones on June 12, 2008, titled Drupal for Education. John presented this session at the Trends, Tools, and Tactics for 21st Century Learning conference in Wichita, Kansas, hosted by the Educational Services and Staff Development Association of Central Kansas (ESSDACK). The conference program description of…
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Praise for NeoOffice (OpenOffice) and SeaShore (GIMP)
I have had VERY positive experiences this past week with both NeoOffice (the Macintosh OS X port of OpenOffice) and SeaShore (a variant of the open source GIMP photo editor for Mac OS X which does not require X11.) For both of my presentations Saturday for the 2008 Survive and Thrive Single Moms conference in…
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Drupal for Education by John Jones
These are my notes from John Jones‘ presentation “Drupal for Education” at the TTT Conference in Wichita, Kansas, on 12 June 2008. BEFORE THE SESSION JOHN TOLD ME SOME HISTORY: THE DEANSPACE SITE WAS BUILT WITH DRUPAL, THERE IS NOW A PROJECT CALLED CIVICSPACE WHICH IS A DRUPAL PROJECT FOCUSED ON POLITICAL SITES. JOHN DEVELOPED…
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iPhone, MobileMe, Eudora users and Assisted GPS
Steve Jobs’ WWDC 2008 announcements about iPhone 2.0 software and the 3G iPhone on Monday have generated considerable excitement as well as questions. Personally, I am most excited about MobileMe, a service from Apple which replaces .Mac and will offer many new features including “push calendar and contacts.” I’ve struggled with calendar synchronization issues the…
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DVD burning software, Malware and Digital Citizenship
Does anyone know of a FREE, good, Windows-based software program than can burn AVI video files into DVDs? The program needs to both convert the AVI files and burn them to DVD. (If two programs are needed to do these tasks separately that is OK, but it would be nice if these could be done…
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Moodle as “the killer app”
I posted the following as a response to Paul McMahon’s post “Where do we Mash to?” Whether we are talking about students in Hong Kong and other parts of east Asia (as Paul is) or here in Oklahoma, I agree with Kent Brooks that Moodle is as close to a “killer app” as we can…
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Podcast254: Coaching and Leading Faculty on the Blended Learning Journey: An Interview with Scott Charlson
For the past three years, Scott Charlson has served as the Director of Learning Support Systems at Western Oklahoma State College (WOSC) in Altus, Oklahoma. In this role, Scott has served as a facilitator and coach for college instructors teaching entirely online and in blended learning environments. In this recorded interview from May 28, 2008,…
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Abandoning Juice Receiver – At least for now
I have absolutely LOVED using Juice Receiver along with PodNova and iTunes to manage my podcast subscriptions the past several years. Unfortunately, the developers of Juice Receiver appear to have discontinued updates, and the available version (2.2) for Macintosh OS X runs VERRRYYYY slowly and sometimes (at least for me) doesn’t run at all. I…
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Continuing dialog about creativity in schools, student technology skills and content filtering
I posted the following as a response to Corey White’s comment on my February post, “Advocating for differentiated content filtering.” This was a lengthy comment, and seemed to justify its own post. Hopefully my tone here is not too confrontational. Corey: Like many in IT in our schools, your comment reflects an assumption that part…