A conversation with John Willinsky about public participation in the creation of knowledge
am 25.06.2007 von Obiter Dictum
It was a great pleasure to speak with John Willinsky for this week’s ITConversations show. We refer to another podcast I mentioned here. As much as I hope people will listen to this week’s show, I think it’s even more important to hear that other one, which is a talk that Dr. Willinsky gave at the UBC Okanagan Learning Conference last year.
If you’re an …
Simon’s laws of local blogging
Obiter Dictum / Dryden, New York is a small town near Ithaca. Four years ago, local resident Simon St. Laurent began chronicling the civic life of the town on a blog called Living in Dryden. In a 2004 profile the Ithaca Journal wrote: St. Laurent can be seen, not…
RVG, billable hours oder value?
Vertretbar Weblawg / Über What About Clients? bin ich auf den Beitrag If You Don’t Discuss Value, Expect to Discuss Hours gestoßen: Because you aren’t discussing value up-front with [customers]. Mostly because firms haven’t taken the time to understan…
There aint no sanity clause
Transblawg / When I started this blog, I was thinking of calling it No Sanity Clause. It had the ideal link between law and Mar(ks)x. But then I realized that not many Germans would understand that. Perhaps it’s just as well, since this name has since been…
Links roundup
Transblawg / While I’m busy elsewhere, here are some more parasitical offerings: Babelport: There’s a new translation portal out, Babelport. I didn’t bother to look at it at first because these things are springing up like nobody’s busines…
A conversation with Jeannette Wing about computational thinking
Obiter Dictum / This week’s show on ITConversations explores what Jeannette Wing means by computational thinking. As I noted here, she has coined that evocative phrase to suggest how the intellectual tools of computer science — including abstraction, naming…
Mashing up ITConversations and SIConversations
Obiter Dictum / Although my own weekly podcast appears on the ITConversations channel of the Gigavox network, lately I find myself listening more often to our sister channel, Social Innovation Conversations. And I’ve started to wonder: Why are these two diffe…
Crossroads Mall Thursday night
Obiter Dictum / I’ll be in Redmond for part of next week and, although my first effort to have a Crossroads Mall meetup got sidetracked, I’d like to try again. To keep things simple: I’ll just be there this Thursday night, the 21st, at around 6:30…
Vorlesungszeit ist vorbei / Lectures are done for the semester
Legalesed / It certainly has been a while since I last wrote, but I was up to my eyeballs in work and just couldn’t find the time. Okay, I admit that there were also a couple of parties in there, but I do tend to make it hard for myself: I correct and han…
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