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passion quilt

Michael Stephens tagged me for a pretty cool meme. Here’s the deal:
Post a picture from a source like FlickrCC or Flickr Creative Commons or make/take your own that captures what YOU are most passionate about for kids to learn about…and give your picture a short title.

Original image here.
This is an image I used in [...]

a cautionary tale

Anyone remember Stikipad, the free, hosted wiki solution? Yeah, I did too. Well, guess what? They upped and disappeared.
Yes, this probably happens in the land of web 2.0 all the time, but here’s the rub: the Emerging Technologies Group at MPOW used Stikipad as our documentation wiki and I did that thing I always [...]

a toolbox for faculty

Wee announcement at MPOW today about a new service we’re rolling out called the 2.0 Toolbox. It’s a suite of 2.0 tools we’re hosting for faculty which, at the moment, consists of installed blogs (using WordPress MU) and wikis (using PmWiki).
As you probably know, WordPress MU is a multi-user blogging environment (hence the “MU”) [...]

CiL2008

CiL2008 was terrific. As many of my blogging compatriots have admitted, there wasn’t a lot that was brand, spanking new (to me) at the conference, but what was (and always is) new and exciting are the people who bring the interesting ideas to the party. And I met a lot of those people at CiL [...]

pecha kucha @ CiL2008

I think I’ve finally got the hang of saying it right (that is p’CHA k’CHA — and that’s as close as I can get to spelling it phonetically). This session was easily the most fun panel I’ve been a part of. Also? The most difficult in terms of preparation. It should come as no surprise [...]