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This summer I’ve been experimenting with a new approach to teaching and learning online. I’ve officially (ok, secretly) broken from my institution’s BlackBoard learning management system in favor of an open-source, decentralized alternative. This summer   A screaming fossil?we are using a WordPress MU installation bolstered by the social networking component BuddyPress and further supplemented with [...]

Having recently returned from the 4Cs conference, I’ve got all kinds of new ideas swimming around my head. A few of the sessions I attended addressed creative uses of social networking technology in the classroom. One such session focused on Twitter. Now, I have to say I’ve never really gotten the concept of Twitter. For [...]

Well, after watching Gever Tulley’s talk on “Five Dangerous Things You Should Let Your Children Do,” I thought it might worth giving one of them a try. So, we dug out an old relic computer that was sitting on a shelf in the basement and we asked Aidan if he wanted to see what was [...]