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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-10

Michael Rowe — Mon, 10 May 2010 04:22:00 +0000

Ning Announces New Pricing Model, Free Nings for Teachers…but they can still take it away anytime they want http://tinyurl.com/2g6evay #
Law Librarian Blog: Moving Beyond the Ubiquitous PDF for Durham Statement Compliance http://bit.ly/c7f7XR #
RT @pgsimoes: Simple but gr8… RT @retorta: The Clever Sheep: Top 20 Uses for Wordle http://ow.ly/1ABMY #
RT @gsiemens: sentences you will never read in a published research paper: http://bit.ly/cbjaP9 #
Having wonderful conversation on ethical issues in practice, with 4th year physio students on WP/BP social network #uwcphysio #
Installed #doubletwist to manage podcasts on my HTC Hero (Android), and loving it. Only in beta but works well http://www.doubletwist.com/ #
@amcunningham would like to know how using #screenr for feedback works out #
1022. Teaching What You Don’t Know http://tinyurl.com/3x6lgdl #
Faculty Perceptions of Group Work. Interesting insights that will be useful for my student groups http://tinyurl.com/2wxmg8x #
Google Editions: Google Plans to Launch E-Book Store This Summer http://tinyurl.com/2d9jojq #
My Social Network: post by Couros on the value derived from soc net, & shouldn’t students get the same benefits? http://tinyurl.com/3yv5exq #
The 21st Century Classroom – Alfie Kohn. Some great ideas for teaching http://tinyurl.com/34llqgl #
Inside Teaching : Interesting format, but not sure if I like it for a PC. Think it’ll be awesome on an iPad-like device http://bit.ly/cdo2TO #
Ubuntu 10.04 released. Beautiful Gnome desktop http://bit.ly/aXekDg always makes me want to switch. But KDE is also beautiful…sigh #
♻ @cristinacost RT @netcrit #nlc2010 – Wenger – reflects on his theory – community doesn’t explain learning; learning explains community! #
Network scientists at Harvard: Nicholas Christakis, Laura Bogart, Martin Nowak | Harvard Magazine May-Jun 2010 http://diigo.com/0aq94 #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-22

Michael Rowe — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 04:22:00 +0000

Google and Wikipedia — Separated at Birth? http://tinyurl.com/yzxj3az #
@patrickkayton I liked the cartoon look #
YouTube – Students Helping Students. A video by Michael Wesch http://bit.ly/cE7aDL #
I know it’s ridiculously early, but I’m already looking forward to SAAHE ’10 at Wits in July this year http://bit.ly/9CGOA6 #
@Sallykenyon12 Not on it at all, just saw a random tweet and followed it up. Don’t know if I have enough voyeur / time to watch other people #
How to Destroy the Book, by Cory Doctorow (part two) | theVARSITY.ca http://bit.ly/awIOZX #
Race Shapes Teen Facebook and MySpace Adoption, says danah boyd – ReadWriteStart http://bit.ly/c55Brc #
Mohamed Amine Chatti’s ongoing research on Technology Enhanced Learning http://bit.ly/bPCgyp #
Gumption: Clinical Wisdom: Knowledge, Experience, Compassion, Creativity and Honesty http://bit.ly/d8S9lF #
Kevin Smith’s Plus-Sized Predicament : NPR http://bit.ly/axsayt #
Chatroulette – only mildly disturbing http://bit.ly/bRdeWy #
@cristinacost thanks for the offer, i’ll think about it and get back to you #
@cristinacost at this point, a #diigo educators account is all I want. I’m tired of asking them for one #
RT @pgsimoes: Building a #PLE – 15 Must-Have Web Apps for Students – http://ow.ly/197p0. Didn’t know about most of these…thanks #
RT @acedtect: Don’t just shorten your URL, make it suspicious and frightening! http://www.shadyurl.com/index.php. This is awesome #
Filesharing is illegal, but not wrong. Winning essay by Canadian 12th grade student http://tinyurl.com/****** #
RT @openednews: News: OpenCourseWare Consortium Panel Recap http://bit.ly/aVkMia (apologies for the shameless self-plug) #
School Accused Of Spying On Kids In Their Homes With Spyware That Secretly Activated Webcams | Techdirt http://bit.ly/c6Wn4e #
xkcd: Science Valentine. This is awesome http://bit.ly/9nbXs9 #
The tool for the 21st century classroom. I use Docs, I collaborate with Docs, but this lady is way ahead of me http://bit.ly/cBRrB8 #
I really like using KJots and it seems as if it’s going to be getting some very cool new features http://bit.ly/bZr2Lc #
♻ @pgsimoes: RT @antoesp: RT @Czernie Interesting: ‘A #Research Revolution: The Impact of Digital Technologies’ http://tinyurl.com/ydr63lu #
@amcunningham he is, my comment is “saved, awaiting moderation”, it’s only short one, sent from phone between shop and office #
Public Collections Empathy in Medical Education – Anne Marie Cunningham | Mendeley http://bit.ly/b5o2xV #
@patrickkayton I think that’d be a great use of #cognician why don’t you whip something up for us quickly #
@amcunningham done, exciting stuff, we’ll have to come up with a cool name for this type of project…extreme writing or something #
@amcunningham If you mean lit. rev. online with docs, etc, I’m super-keen #
Arin’s Blog: How to write a literature review using only the web http://bit.ly/cVn4S2 #
@marlonparker complete loss of speaker’s credibility #
RT @clebe05: @wesleylynch did a cool interview on #TheDigitalEdge podcast – have a listen and share your thoughts – http://ow.ly/17OPS #
Journals as Filters and Active Agents | Virtual Canuck. Make sure to read the comments as well http://bit.ly/b7CxPk #
@cristinacost I like Carrington (http://bit.ly/bBhPef) on my WP site (www.mrowe.co.za/blog) #
Great interview with Salman Khan (khanacademy.org) on his response to a crisis in education http://bit.ly/cPcLIb #
Siemens – Teaching in Social and Technological Networks http://tinyurl.com/yknuclq #
Developing a Pedagogical Framework for Web 2.0 and social software http://tinyurl.com/y9zsddj #
@wesleylynch thanks, finding the stuff I’m working on at the moment quite a challenge #
Aligning outcomes, content and assessment to more accurately measure competence and facilitate meaningful learning…this stuff is hard #
@sharingnicely I’m pretty happy with my coverage from Vodacom, haven’t been anywhere yet that doesn’t have it. Can’t speak for US tho #
♻ @p2pu: Breaking News: The new http://www.p2pu.org is live, and beautiful. Sign up for your course today! Congrats Bekka, it looks great #
A critique of Tapscott and William’s views on university reform, in Educause Review (see previous tweet) http://bit.ly/bUDcP2 #
Innovating the 21st-Century University: It’s Time! (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE http://bit.ly/bkMYbo #
Getting excited about the upcoming SAFRI (medical education) session in a few weeks http://bit.ly/99ULI7 #
Just upgraded to #Kubuntu Lucid running #KDE 4.4 – better stability & nice new features, enjoying it so far http://bit.ly/ayygg0 #
Facebook Driving More Traffic Than Google. Hard to believe & only 1 metric but is it a sign of things to come? http://tinyurl.com/ybxcwol #
Peer-To-Peer Recognition of Learning in Open Education by Schmidt in the IRRODL journal http://bit.ly/bFVpMd via @addthis #
Alternative Grad School: creating a do-it-yourself higher learning experience http://bit.ly/cBuCVM #
Mobile platforms are proliferating. Check out MeeGo (merged Moblin & Maemo) http://bit.ly/d69pLv #
Thought Leader » Eve Dmochowska » The web’s unavoidable sharp learning curve. Interesting comments http://bit.ly/9OPmrE #
RT @maggiev: TESSA – Teacher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa (lovely resources here) http://bit.ly/dtb6rU #
RT @patrickkayton: About to present Cognician to postgrad students and academics at CPUT. Smart crowd! #
♻ @cshirky: RT @pomeranian99: Length of Britannica’s entry about Wikipedia: 913 words. Length of Wikipedia’s entry about Britannica: 6,804. #
Finalising details of collaborative project with Irish physio students on Physiopedia #isp1 http://bit.ly/dz2UGb #
21st century literacies (HASTAC), 10 additional literacies over and above the 3 R’s http://bit.ly/dtFcJt #
Effective Pedagogy – rubric based on the structure of observed learning outcomes http://bit.ly/bV6dvv #
OpeningScholarship Project | Centre for Educational Technology at UCT. Lots of interesting content http://bit.ly/brrRKk #
UCT OpenContent portal now live. Congratulations to all involved http://bit.ly/dfAeCH #
I’m on the #microecop programme committee (http://ow.ly/176eM), but sadly not on the list yet #
For The Love Of Culture – post by Lessig on issues around copyright and rights clearance http://bit.ly/bxsNCn #
@gsiemens I’ve been using Chromium for a few months and now find FF slow and clunky #

Gnome-shell on Ubuntu

Michael Rowe — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 06:36:48 +0000

I’ve been playing around with Gnome-shell on Ubuntu over the past week or so and am still trying to decide if I like it. It’s going to replace Compiz in the next generation of the Gnome desktop and the idea is that it’s supposed to enhance productivity by creating an innovative user interface that more easily exposes the day-to-day tasks of the user. But besides some pretty cool transitions between virtual desktops, an “overview” of the running tasks, and some additional shortcuts in the Activities panel, I’m not sure what else it adds.

I know that it’s going to improve with time and I’m hoping the developers include more features that actually challenge the current desktop paradigm like KDE has done with their 4.x release. I do like my desktops shiny so I’m happy to see Gnome finally moving in that direction, which is why I’m not going to get all upset about the fact that the developers are breaking with tradition to try something new.

Check out this tour of Gnome-shell for details of the features and screenshots. If you like to play with bleeding edge tools, I’d recommend installing it and playing around for a while. It’s stable enough to get an idea of how it’s supposed to work and you might just like it enough to keep it.

One standardised storage format for common data

Michael Rowe — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 08:50:35 +0000

Is it too much to ask for software developers to agree on one standard storage format for commonly accessed data? Why does every browser that I use have it’s own bookmarking system, rather than one location separated out from the actual programme that all programmes can then access.

For example, Firefox keeps it’s bookmarks at …/.mozilla/firefox/…default/… (different for each OS), Flock does the same in it’s own location, and so does Chromium. Why not have one bookmark storage standard that gets kept in /home/michael/.bookmarks? Every browser can then access the same place and so will all have the same History and Bookmarks, no matter which browser I’m using. The same is applicable for RSS feeds. Why can’t every application use a storage container that’s kept in /home/michael/.rss? I’m hazy on the details, but I thought that this was the sort of thing that XML was designed for?

The Akonadi framework on KDE is going to go some way to address this problem, but only within the KDE desktop, and only for the (personal information management) PIM applications. Am I missing something here? If you know of a way to share resources across applications, please point me in the right direction.

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-10

Michael Rowe — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 06:22:00 +0000

Grading practices http://tinyurl.com/kmaftd via http://www.diigo.com/~michaelrowe #
Beyond Social Networking: Building Toward Learning Communities — Campus Technology http://bit.ly/VnmhB #
Skills developed through social networks that lead to collaborative learning http://www.diigo.com/06rad #
3 Challenges to Wiki Use in Instruction — Campus Technology http://bit.ly/biP0c #
New NICE guidelines on LBP : RachaelLowe (interesting post on the applicability of clinical guidelines) http://bit.ly/Mb3TA #
KDE 4.3.0 Release Announcement. Congrats to the development team for an amazing release. It just keeps getting better http://bit.ly/eDQ4o #
The KDE Education Project – Marble desktop globe. New release is beautiful http://bit.ly/uXarV #