Uh, I’m not entirely sure where to begin. (Since I also planned to write a lot of posts that have been stewing in my head, but the lousy networking in India kept me from doing so.) Look forward to lots of posts in the next two weeks. :)
After successfully circumnavigating the globe, and having my checked luggage make it with me through India, Thailand, Japan and to Vancouver… United managed to leave one of my checked bags in Chicago. Thanks, United. I’d be very disappointed to know if this was an issue of weight–that is, they left at least 10 bags off… Continue Reading Thanks, United
Translated from Dutch…”terribly smart” or “terribly slim”. In English, and in the projects I’ve been working…OER=”Open Educational Resources”, in Dutch it’s “ooer”. I’ll leave it to the reader to decide which OER might be. (From Fred Mulder’s closing keynote at OpenEd 2009.)
I just attended this presentation at OpenEd 2009 by Jon Mott, “Bridging the Gap Between the PLE and the LMS”. Jon describes an “un-LMS”–a loosely coupled collection of services to support teaching and learning at a university. Jon talks about a structure, parallel to their Blackboard instance, that BYU is developing to link together separate… Continue Reading The Un-LMS: Moving to a Personal Learning Environment
I’m halfway through my marathon two-week, around the world trip. I’m not dead yet, but I think I flew over it sometime on Saturday/Sunday. I gave three presentations (2009 Technology for Education Workshop, Microsoft Research India and IEEE Computer Society Bangalore Section) while in India, basically the same one–but in three different durations. First was… Continue Reading SpokenMedia Presentations-Early August 2009
As you know, we are going through a significant deaccessioning of items from the collection in order to make it more manageable and focussed on STEM education. –NSDL Representative (name withheld) I spent a lot of my time helping to create educational digital libraries of educational resources in Science, Technology, Engineering and Technology (STEM, above).… Continue Reading Full Circle to smete.org
I’m here to pick up trash –United Airlines Flight Attendant Silly me, I bought the line that… “Flight attendants are primarily there for your safety.” –United Airlines Pilot (From a conversation on United Airlines 474, SFO to YVR, August 10, 2009.)
I should probably tell these people to stop trying to generate clickthroughs and advertising revenue based on my name, but instead, I’ll just call genealogylocat*er.org pathetic instead. /sigh Then there’s GoGetPap*ers.com which is doing the same thing, but is slightly less obnoxious about it since it purports to be for education. /double sigh
Pop quiz! Firefly is the best Chinese-influenced space western to ever grace the small screen. Though it didn’t even get a full season on the air, its rabid fans inspired a full-length feature film so that the whole story could be told. What inspires such devotion? The action? The special effects? The crazy Chinese that… Continue Reading Which Firefly Character Are You?
Ok, I’ve just had another–what the hell were they thinking moment working with the ScholarOne manuscript review system used by the IEEE Computer Society. Holy hell this software sucks. That’s really all I can say about it. The interface is confusing, it’s not clear what/how to do things, and it doesn’t provide the links to… Continue Reading ScholarOne–A Lousy Journal Review System