(Jan) Philipp Schmidt of Peer 2 Peer University has organized an open course (along with Mozilla and ccLearn) focused on designing the “open educational platform of the future.” It’s a great idea for a course (especially a free one!), and I was pretty excited when he asked UMW (by way of David Wiley-thanks David!) to [...]
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Mozilla Open Education course
Published by March 21st, 2009 in UMW Blogs, digital identity, e-portfolios, eduglu, insructional technology, open education, open source, philosophy, plugins, rss, tags, wordpress multi-user and wpmu. 8 CommentsAudio of “The Medium is the Massage” from Ubuweb
Published by November 26th, 2008 in Massage Reading Group and philosophy. 7 CommentsI am currently embarking on the journey of reading Marshall McLuhan’s The Medium is the Massage for the first time. I have set up a distributed reading group here after discussing with Rafael Alvarado and Ed Webb the idea of a distributed, open space for aggregating our reading reflections. Keep in mind anyone can join [...]
Jefferson’s Permanent Revolution
Published by October 10th, 2008 in philosophy, politics and television. 1 CommentI have been on a Thomas Jefferson kick lately. Given this, I was really excited to read Peter Rock’s recent post “Jefferson, ideas, property, and the constitution”, which discusses the fallacious logic that ideas can be treated as property.
So, this got me thinking about Jefferson’s idea of permanent revolution, or that “every generation needs [...]
Derek Jarman’s Wittgenstein and other philosophers on YouTube
Published by July 12th, 2008 in YouTube and philosophy. 11 CommentsLast night, Anto and I spent the evening playing with YouTube. Anto did her Laurea in Philosophy at the Unviersity of Milan and here thesis was on Ludwig Wittgenstein, so it is always a joy to listen to her talk about his thinking. As we were talking we stumbled upon a scene from Derek Jarman’s [...]
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