As might be obvious by my last post, I’ve been thinking a lot about Twitter (and subsequently App.net) in the last few days. With a small amount of hesitation I’ve decided to join App.net, if for no other reason than that competition in this field is necessary. But after doing a bit more research I feel there are a lot of reasons to like what App.net is doing and support them. I should start with Twitter though. - Read More -
There have been plenty of worries about the direction Twitter is heading lately. I’m not just referring to their attempts to monetize the service and the fear of sponsored ads and tweets directly in your stream. Hell, in a few months you might be wishing that was the least of the problems for this service. - Read More -
Every time one of these new “MOOCish” sites pops up I do my best to play around with the tool before being too hypercritical. Last year when AI Class was all the rage I signed up and managed to make it an entire week I think. The problem there of course was that learning about - Read More -
This is a patent awarded to Lego for the design of the standard modular brick sets in 1961. It is now expired. This is a printable Lego designed exactly to those same specifications (click to view model on Thingiverse) This is a Lego to Tinkertoy adapter, part of the Free Universal Construction Kit. There is - Read More -
Another day, another MOOC fires up its engines and fills my Twitterstream. And Moocmooc is about as meta as it gets: a one week MOOC that will analyze the form itself. And interestingly they’re using Instructure Canvas as the delivery platform, which is the LMS that UMW adopted a year ago. It’s interesting to me - Read More -
Update: I gave up on Kaltura. Despite the warm and fuzzy outlook that follows I later found the information available for supporting it extremely poor. I wrote about that here if you’d like to read it. When I came to UMW last year there were few options available to students and faculty that wanted to - Read More -
