All those topics that i wish i had time to pursue more earnestly.

Planet Software Freedom Day

[From Home - Software Freedom Day Wiki]

QueenRania

[From YouTube - QueenRania's Channel]

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this is a brilliant use of youtube!

In my books, CC By is the only free license.

[From When’s an OER not an OER? « Learn Online]
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In my books…. CC is just another copyright regime. Public domain is the only free content. If you don’t put it into the public domain, all you are saying is ‘restricted’. CC just says, under the terms of copyright, you can do x. Public Domain says, you can do x and whatever else you want. I also like artistic license of Perl, though it is a copyright license.

on another note, the post above has some really great content linked from it.

September 19th (every year)

is International Talk Like A Pirate Day

[From The Official site for International Talk Like A Pirate Day - September 19]

Choices and Challenges | Political Participation in the Internet Age]

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the new choices and challenges website is up. once again i’m doing a discussion section. It is on web 2.0… Luckily my lovely wife knows all about that:)

When it comes to today’s kids and their use of technology, a new report sponsored by the British Library and the Joint Information Systems Committee reveals some very interesting results. The biggest shock to many will be one that is actually quite obvious to those who work in education.

[From Student Shortcomings - Anything but Masters of Technology - OpenEducation.net ]

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open education has a nice revealing report about student’s skills with technology.

as an online teacher, most of my students are fairly adept. they have to be to choose this way of learning, but… all students have some problems with technology as this report suggests. those problems are not the ‘plug it in and play’ variety, they are the epistemological and judgmental variety. Our students need higher order skills. However, unlike many people. I won’t say those higher order skills are related to the use computers. It is merely that they lack those skills in that arena also.

75 (Really) Useful JavaScript Techniques

[From 75 (Really) Useful JavaScript Techniques | Developer's Toolbox | Smashing Magazine]

I am reading my slow, marvellous way through the Yule-Cordier edition of The Travels of Marco Polo, armed with Google Maps, Google Images, Wikipedia and the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

[From indulgence & sin « a historian’s craft]

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here is a historian who has produced/is producing a great map of marco polo’s journeys on google maps. It demonstrates what can be done with a bit of effort.

[From FM 100 Hue Test ]

which is actually pretty good, 0 being perfect, for a male in my age range.

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careful…. humor.