Monthly Archives: May 2005

Is the “Learning Object” King naked?

This item by Scott Leslie and its referent sound the death knell for a term that would have been useful if it hadn’t been taken so seriously. I have long argued in particular that the idea of collecting “Learning Objects” … Continue reading

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Definitional Drift: Math Goes Postmodern

Definitional Drift: Math Goes Postmodern says something that I have for decades been telling my students, but ends with an important point that misses the point of what math is all about.

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thetyee.ca Corky Evans on Making the Woods Work

thetyee.ca Corky Evans on Making the Woods Work

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Wiring Java Applications with Spring

Wiring Java Applications with Spring is an article about a way of implementing “Inversion of Control” or “Dependency Injection” which sounds as though it may be related to what I needed to do when implementing Items that kept track of … Continue reading

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AlterNet: War on Iraq: Galloway Goes To Washington

AlterNet: War on Iraq: Galloway Goes To Washington

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thetyee.ca Why Is Higher Ed off the Election Radar?

this article by Crawford Killian is both an important message for the electorate and a sad comment on the effectiveness of the FPSE investment in bringing public attention to post-secondary education issues.

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The Laws of Identity

The Laws of Identity

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� Jamie Lewis on the future of identity management | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com

� Jamie Lewis on the future of identity management | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com Jamie Lewis on the future of identity management by ZDNet‘s Chris Jablonski

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AlterNet: Rights and Liberties: The Uses and Abuses of Race

AlterNet: Rights and Liberties: The Uses and Abuses of Race

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CETIS-The Case for Creative Commons Textbooks

According to a recent survey, University of California students now spend 40 percent more on textbooks than they did six years ago. This paper argues that colleges and universities may be able to significantly reduce these costs by creating a … Continue reading

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Tyee Election Central: RAIL<=>LIAR cartoon

From the “Tyee” Election Central a great cartoon by Ingrid Rice.

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Crawford Killian: Yet Another Blog

Crawford Killian has just announced a new blog called Bridging the Income Gap in which he will be leading discussion of the pernicious effects on a society of having widely spread incomes.

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Babies and Bathwater

When I tried to post part of the previous postings as a comment on Stephen’s Web, I was told: “Because it has submitted spam, this client has been banned from all interactive features of this website. Email the administrator if … Continue reading

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mIDm – Self-Identification

mIDm – Self-Identification the World Wide Web is Stephen Downes’ follow-up to his previous article on Authentication and Identification. I had some issues with the previous part but have not yet read this one.

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Authentication and Identification

In a recent article Stephen Downes makes some good points about the lack of benefit to the user provided by various schemes of “authentication”, but in doing so he slanders authentication by using it’s name to refer to something better … Continue reading

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Bloglines | My Feeds

Bloglines | My Feeds

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my weblog

This is a silly self-referential posting

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Hello world!

Welcome to WordPress. This is the first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!

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