I’m happy 🙂 I got a weekly-update newsletter email from the Peer Instruction Network, that I recently joined and they quoted a (“fantastic”, sic!) question I’ve asked when joining the network… so that other members can give me their answers, via a special POLL… how cool’s that!!! II. Social Sciences Members Spotlight Social science disciplines […]
I had drafted a post on concept 2 that I had been looking up on a Wednesday morning on Wikipedia, but that post got lost, somehow 🙁 But I still know what it all was about, even though I cannot remember all the details of the text that I had written… I’ve corrected the orthography […]
I’m giving a lecture today about teaching with multimedia and hypermedia and I was thinking about looking up examples of such educational media on Wikipedia… To my big surprise, I had to discover that “educational media” was not (and still is not) defined and explained on Wikipedia! I do think that this concept needs to […]
Today, I decided to install the following pro-active routine for my contribution to Project AoW: Once a week, let’s say every Wednesday morning during my commute to Walferdange, I look up a concept on Wikipedia that is on my mind that morning (for whatever reason), and check if an entry exists. If I don’t find […]
I’ve recently decided, together with my college and friend Benoît Majerus, to answer the call issued by the Wikimedia Foundation, asking academics to actively contribute to the largest, free, online encyclopedic repository of human knowledge in the known universe that we all resort to when we want to look up a concept or fact: Wikipedia. […]
I just got an invitation to the CCK11 event on facebook, via the group on connectivism and connective knowledge: Connectivism and Connective Knowledge is an open online course that over 12 weeks explores the concepts of connectivism and connective knowledge and explore their application as a framework for theories of teaching and learning. Participation is […]
The OpenLibrary project aims at creating a web-page for each and every book (paper-based and digital books) that has been published by any member of humanity. http://openlibrary.org/ I’ve started to contribute my modest share of time by referencing the books I’ve been editing for the last few years, containing my students written reports on their […]
I’m very happy about a recent book that I discovered thanks to my wife: Remo H. Largo’s (2010) “Lernen geht anders. Bildung und Erziehung vom Kind her denken”; actually because it starts with some 20 introductory pages where Largo convincingly shows how society has dramatically changed during the last 20-30 years and how schooling and […]
Have you ever wondered where the name “Raiffeisen” comes from? Well, I never intended to look it up… but today, when searching for something else related to the Banque Raiffeisen, I suddenly found out why the bank is called that way, in Luxembourg, Austria, Germany, Switzerland to name only a few countries… It comes from […]
I’ve just read an online article about what Google CEO Schmidt thinks about the future of the Internet, especially that he thinks that anonymity on the web will and should be something of the past… I thought that some people would fall into the trap of confusing anonymity and privacy, so I thought it might […]