FOSS is a viable and cost effective solution to many issues arising in schools and IT departments in today’s educational system.
Thanks for your thoughts, Brian. Change is on its way, we just have to keep up the good fight.
Monthly Archives: July 2006
One Red Paper Clip & Kipling Saskatchewan Confirmed
As Sean confirms, Kyle of One Red Paper Clip has successfully traded for a house in Kipling, Saskatchewan. Read the details of the deal here.
What I really like is that the town of Kipling is really using this web phenomenon to promote activities in their town. For instance:
– Kipling is going to set up “American Idol style” auditions for the role in Donna on Demand over the Labour Day weekend (Sept 1-4). These auditions are open to ANYBODY from ANYWHERE. Yes, that means you!
– Kipling will build the world’s largest red paperclip in dedication to you and your “one red paperclip projectâ€Â
– Dom and I will move into the house in time for the Labour Day weekend, and will throw (feel free to quote me on this) “Saskatchewan’s Biggest Housewarming Party, Ever.” It will take place on the Labour day weekend. Everyone in the entire world is invited to come to Kipling for the party. Yes, once again, that includes you! You are invited to our housewarming party this Labour Day weekend (Sept 1-4).
This is an amazing chain of events from something that started with one red paperclip.
Blue Dot Social Bookmarking Service
I’ve been a del.icio.us user for quite some time, and I’ve explored several other social bookmarking services. However, I’m really seeing some promise in Blue Dot. This article explains some of the advantages Blue Dot has over other services.
Anyways, I’m alone in Blue Dot land. Anyone want to be my friend?
Visualizing The Tipping Point
The book is old, but I haven’t seen these vizualizations before.
If I had to pick one of these three categories to describe my own teaching, I would probably choose “maven” although I’ve likely been a “salesman” in the past. How about you?
From Logic & Emotion.
The Ten Most Beautiful Mac OS X Apps
Here’s a good list of mostly free Mac OS X software. I use most of these, although not all of my favorites are in the list.
http://www.phillryu.com/2006/07/03/the-top-ten-most-beautiful-os-x-apps/
Enjoy.
Reasons For Not Adopting FLOSS In Ottawa-Carleton
Take a look at the posted response from a superintendent from a Canadian school district defending reasons why not to use FLOSS at any levels of significance.
http://www.digital-copyright.ca/node/2531
Clueless. It looks like Microsoft sales reps got to her first.
And what about the trend toward the LMS? I think, if we’re lucky, we will begin to see education back-pedal on that notion.