Tonight I decided to move one of my blogs from the Blogs at PSU that I have stopped using over here to my main space. The blog I wanted to move is my iPhone blog that I set up during our investigation of the iPhone. There are a couple reasons I wanted to […]
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Lessig to Keynote this Year’s TLT Symposium!
When we sat down to talk about who we wanted for this year’s TLT Symposium Lawrence Lessig was the firsdt name we threw out. We then instantly said it would be incredible, but probably not realistic … well, guess what? We got him — for real, here is the official word. For […]
Digital Commons in the News
I was pleasantly surprised to see an article about the Digital Commons today at the Penn State Live site. Nice to see it getting a little attention … we are getting set to do the next five campuses and we are getting really solid feedback from those who already have DC facilities. Our […]
Time Machine and Backup
I upgraded to Leopard — unfortunately for me I purchased it from the Campus Computer Store one freaking day before my Apple Distinguished Educator (not for resale) came in the mail — crap! Oh well. I didn’t really have much to say about it here on the blog, but it is a very […]
Enabling 1,000 People
The GPhone was supposed to be something else! Google was going to build a mobile that would crush Apple, Microsoft, and others in the mobile OS market … instead they built an alliance (sounds a lot like their recently announced Open Social project) and promised to provide a mobile OS in an open source […]
What’s in a Number?
Sometime week before last I posted a little screen capture from the Blogs at Penn State admin dashboard showing some basic system stats. I published the screen capture without comment — I wasn’t really sure what the numbers really represented — what is an “Active Author” for example? Take a look at today’s […]
Back to the Portfolio
In light of the Blogs at Penn State project I have been thinking and talking quite a bit about how that platform can be used as a digital publishing platform … much less a blog, but a way to enable personal content management. I’ve written about this before, but have some additional thoughts to […]
McEducation
This is my (rarely updated) blog. I am hoping that this class will get me reengaged with the blogosphere and get me posting again. Looking forward to a good semester.
The Blogs at Penn State
We’ll use the Blogs at PSU for a whole bunch of things this semester. In addition to you managing your own blog, we’ll be looking at how blogs can form the basis for ePortfolios, team spaces, and so much more. Go get your blog now!