Well, well. Looked what popped up on my Facebook screen!
Archive for May, 2007
How to teach about IP
Posted in IP, Learning, Teaching on May 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Cory Doctorow has been teaching an undergraduate course at the University of Southern California called ‘PWNED: Everyone on Campus is a Copyright Criminal’. The class was open to anyone on or off campus, and lectures were podcasted. The students edited a class blog and were expected to improve Wikipedia posts relevant to the class. For [...]
Google sees the light — at last
Posted in Search on May 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
From BBC NEWS…
Google is to ban adverts for essay writing services – following claims that plagiarism is threatening the integrity of university degrees.
About time, too. Stand by for squeals of protest from purveyors of bespoke essays to clueless undergraduates.
“Schools stifle creativity”: discuss
Posted in Creativity, Kids & ICT, Learning on May 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Masterful TED Talk by Ken Robinson.
Forbes on Networks
Posted in T214 on May 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Forbes.com has an interesting series of essays on networks. Useful for T214.
My Twittervision movie
Posted in Media Ecology, YouTube on May 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Bill Thompson and I had a hilarious conversation the other morning with an incredulous former newspaper editor in which we tried to explain why Twitter might be interesting, even if it is currently just an example of leading-edge uselessness. Afterwards I thought that perhaps a movie might help. So I made one. [...]
The joys of software monopolies
Posted in Microsoft, monoculture on May 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Charming message in my OU in-box this morning reads:
We are aware of a significant number of people experiencing problems starting their computers this morning. After initially starting up normally, the machine becomes ‘bogged down’ as applications are started. This is apparently down to a widespread problem with Windows Update and Microsoft think they have a [...]
