I am going to Ars Electronica in Linz for a short weekend. I’ll be there sometime on Friday and leaving on Sunday to Budapest for Monday and Tuesday. If you happen to be in Ars E in Linz and interested in to have face to face chat on educational technology, or on free and open […]
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I went this week to see two lectures by the philosopher Pekka Himanen. Himanen is giving a lecture series for our new students. He talks about creative community. Himanen is internationally one of the most well known Finnish academics – from big part because of his pretty clever book called The Hacker Ethics – On […]
This blog has end-up to be also one of my sketchbooks. I have many of them. Some are traditional paper-based notebooks. My mobile phone is one and almost any piece of paper in any place can serve the task. Two weeks a go we finally got a whiteboard in our office – still learning to […]
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MediaWiki “feature requests”
Next week I am going to the Wikimania – the conference of the Wikimedia community. To be honest, I am very excited about the conference. Some months ago I was invited – it was a big surprise to me – to the Advisory Board of the MediaWiki Foundation. This is the first time we will […]
Most of you already know about LeMill – I hope. Here is a reminder: LeMill is a web community for authoring and sharing open learning resources. Here is a one minute video presentation. It’s a bit like a Wikipedia for learning resources. It’s multilingual and multicultural. It’s free and open to anyone to join. It’s […]
In this article I am presenting the Edu-Mobile – An idea and concept to have a mobile phone designed for learning in the Majority World. This is all fantasy – my dream. At first, some background. I am closely following the One Laptop Per Child, also known as the $100, $130, $140, $150, $ 176 […]
For some weeks now I have been playing with Nokia N93. For people asking what is that (it is a pretty funky looking piece), I keep on telling that it is a DVD-quality video camera with 3.2 mega-pixels, Carl Zeiss optics, and 3x optical zoom. In addition to the video camera there is WLAN, bluetooth […]
Using mobile phone in teaching and learning (at least experimenting with them) is not news anymore. I hope, having an open source server system designed to be a “read/write, listen/record, watch/capture&share” -platform for learning purposes is news. MobilED project is doing this. There is now available a long paper about the project, the server platform […]
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Essentia Libre
Are you interested in free/open source software and open content? Are you interested in to practice your Spanish? I am. Essential Libre is a Colombian magazine about open technologies and open content. The issue #5 is now available. Essential Libre is made by volunteers and distributed for free both as PDF and on print. I […]
I have this one small open source project that has been “frozen” already for two years. To finalize it I would need some help from an Ajax/javaScrip/XML/PHP programmer. If you know these technologies (or are interested in to study them) please contact me. The project is called “Bisociation Tool”. It’s a simple web based tool […]
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