Archive for the ‘learning’ Category
Saturday, July 4th, 2009
I've had some experience working with fielded wikis since I wrote disgruntledly about LibraryThing's implementation of them in October 2007. I knew at the time of their potential for being able to extract info for other purposes, but I had come into using wikis with a great appreciation for ...
Posted in Knowledge gardening, LibraryThing, book, knowledge management, learning, usability | 2 Comments »
Monday, January 19th, 2009
After my last post, a friend pointed me to usability big guy Jakob Nielsen's online writings on Heuristic Evaluation, and I looked them over and passed specific links on to Mike Lee, organizing our "Code Jam". I've mentioned Nielsen here before. I think the ideas they had did ...
Posted in OLPC, game, learning | No Comments »
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
Nobody's called me yet, but I'm on standby to act as a closing judge in a special election in Maryland tonight (Maryland seems to have these from time to time, no big deal; there was one in April, this one for a vacancy on the county council, another one coming ...
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Saturday, February 9th, 2008
This is from the talk last week:
OLPC RESOURCES
One Laptop Per Child
Website
Wiki
Forums (developers and users, some critics)
OLPC News
not affiliated with OLPC!
Blog
Forums (mainly users, fans, and critics)
OLPC Learning Club - DC
OLPCLCDC Blog
OLPCLCDC Wiki (at OLPC)
OLPCLCDC Forum (at OLPC News)
Email list
Meetings
Me
Tech blog: (here)
Forums and OLPC wiki ...
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Friday, February 8th, 2008
Jonathan Blocksom and I were pretty happy with how our talk went at the Northern Virginia Linux User Group last Saturday. There were over 30 people there, and we got questions throughout (and into the parking lot). I had to slow myself down when I talked too fast or moved the mouse too fast ...
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Sunday, January 20th, 2008
What happens when an organization tries to foster a community, but there's disagreement between them (and/or within the community) over priorities, principles, and procedures of knowledge management?
Not that most of them are quick to identify them as knowledge management issues, but many of the recent organization-community conflicts I'm aware of ...
Posted in Knowledge gardening, LibraryThing, OLPC, knowledge management, learning | No Comments »
Monday, December 31st, 2007
Unless they extend it again, this is the last day to get your own One Laptop Per Child laptop (by paying for two). I have enjoyed mine more the more I've used them -- I got one with Paypal and the other by ordering over the phone (credit card). ...
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Friday, November 16th, 2007
Thinking about these two machines again, there are a few observations I can make even though I didn't actually drive an ASUS Eee myself.
Learning and Discovery: That's what the XO is all about, and it shows, for good or ill. The ASUS Eee seemed more of a scaled-down ...
Posted in OLPC, learning | 2 Comments »
Thursday, November 15th, 2007
... even if the XO mesh/wi-fi wasn't. At the peak of the get-together, there were 25-30 people talking with each other and looking at all the different laptops, tablets, e-book readers (and one step-powered portable emergency power generator). OLPC News write-up, pictures, and links to many more pictures will give you the ...
Posted in OLPC, book, conference, learning | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Regarding my One Laptop Per Child entry, I know some folks are skeptical about the value of this project. I don't mind skeptics. Healthy skepticism is useful. I do wish the naysayers who seem to imagine OLPC is going to pitchfork laptops at people would go and read up on ...
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Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007
I've been following the development of One Laptop Per Child with interest, even before I saw one up close in April. I like their Learning Vision, their open source approach to the hardware, software and content (freedom to tinker), and the hardware features (designed to be durable and useful ...
Posted in OLPC, book, learning, personal information management | 6 Comments »
Friday, August 17th, 2007
legallypuzzled figured out the (nonstandard) MAGICNUMBER URL to do an ISBN search within my local (county) library system from LibraryThing entries, so I added my library to the LibraryThing book links. Say you're looking at the LT entry for Introduction to Knowledge Management: KM in Business. ...
Posted in LibraryThing, book, learning | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, July 17th, 2007
I took a longer break from blogging here than I'd anticipated, but I'm cranking back up again.
Recently I noticed that Pieter Spronk, the author of my favorite PalmOS game, Space Trader, is the Director of Studies of Knowledge Technology at Universiteit Maastricht. He also teaches Logic and Games & ...
Posted in game, knowledge management, learning, penguicon | No Comments »
Wednesday, April 11th, 2007
I've been getting ready for Penguicon coming up next weekend, putting Knowledge Gardening slides together and re-working them after a dry run, looking at other slides/presentation technology (S5) for later consideration, and so on.
If I weren't going there, though, I might be tempted to run down to NC for ...
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