Rorschach Wilderness Blots
Among other things, an early morning canoe paddle in the still waters of Lac Taylor in Gatineau Park, Quebec last week reminded me just how mediated our experience of the world is.
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Hot Air Balloon Over Ottawa
Last week we experienced a hot air balloon ride that took us horizontally from Carleton University in Ottawa, across the Ottawa River to Aylmer in Quebec, and vertically through the troposphere to about 3,500 feet.
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Dispatch: On Sudoku, Engagement and Flow
In which I inquire about the informal learning strategies involved in solving Sudoku.
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Book Notes
Web-based Distance Education for Adults
Barbara A. DuCharme-Hansen and Pamela A. Dupin-Bryant's Web-based Distance Education for Adults supports absolute novices making their first forays into web-based teaching.
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Rich Pictures
Rich pictures makes use of drawings or pictures to gather information about a complex situation.
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Don’t flame me, bro’
People can vastly overestimate their ability to communicate unambiguously by email. We find it hard to take another person’s perspective when communicating electronically. Even worse, our recipients tend to interpret emails more negatively than other forms of communication, making them even more likely to respond aggressively.
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Create A Glossary for Your WordPress Site
Two WordPress plugins, Nathan Olsen's WP-SNAP! and Joel Bennett's Ubernyms work together to create an interactive glossary for your site. (Note that I no longer use this technique on my site).
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Microformats
Microformats are a set of simple, open data formats that use existing standards (aka XHTML) to add semantic meaning to what you publish on the web.
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Social Bookmarking
Social bookmarking is the practice of saving and categorizing web site addresses on a networked computer in a public web site for others to visit.
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Patterns for Complex Learning →