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From British political philosopher Michael Oakeshott: Conversation is not … a contest where a winner gets a prize, … it is an endless, unrehearsed, intellectual adventure in which in imagination we enter a variety of modes of understanding the world and o…

Two questions from moderator: What will the next generation of learning tools look like?

First Keynote from Howard Rheingold.

The first alpha of Eduglu is out and ready for testing.

I’ve been working on a social learning site based on Drupal for the past two years as a student at Brigham Young University and am now working towards readying it for its maiden release into the world as a full-fledged Drupal install profile.

Schools exist to prepare students to thrive in the environment where they live.

Reading through ”Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man” by Marshall McLuhan, I came across this gem of a quote: The classified ads (and stock-market quotations) are the bedrock of the press.

I’ve been reading and thinking a lot lately about how to drive more adoption of the social learning platform I’m building here at BYU, https://island.byu.edu, and wanted to summarize some of the highlights of what I’ve learned.

I’ve started reading ”Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man” by Marshall McLuhan and am greatly enjoying it.

This is the second part of a (most likely) three-part series of posts I’m harvesting from a journal article Tim Olsen and I wrote earlier this year.

University learning is centered on the course.

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the power of transparent learning or learning in the open.

Lately I’ve been helping out a web development team at BYU develop a new calendaring system in Drupal to replace our existing all-in-one calendar.

I recently (re)read a great post on Coding Horror which pointed me towards an article by Jason Kottke who noted that many successful web2.0 projects are a result of taking “something that everyone does with their friends and make it public and permanent.

Michael Idinopolus wrote an intriguing post over on his excellent blog yesterday titled ”Enterprise 2.0: Skip the Pilot.”

Wow, what a great conference.

I presented at the OpenEd Conference this year in Vancouver BC.

Running a startup is an interesting experience — alternatively terrifying and thrilling.

I had the amazing opportunity to present this past March at Drupalcon DC 2009 on my research and work on https://island.byu.edu It was by far the largest crowd I’ve ever presented (400) and the longest (1 hour) but I think it turned out pretty well — no r…

Video from Ignite SLC 2 was posted earlier this week.

I had a great time speaking last night at Ignite Salt Lake 2 on what we’re doing down at BYU with social networking in the classroom.

This is the second in a series of articles I’m writing to help me prep for my session next week at Drupalcon.

In preparation for my upcoming session at Drupalcon, I’m writing a short series of articles on social networking and learning theory.

Great blog post that explores the advantages and disadvantages of different social media structures.

Presentation from one of my classes in Information Systems.

The slenderest knowledge that may be obtained of higher things is more desirable than the most certain knowledge that may be obtained of lesser things Thomas Aquinas

Since I read this quote by Clay Shirky, ”process is an embedded reaction to prior stupidity” it’s been at the top of my very long Shirky quote list.

At a recent education conference, I attended a session on creativity.

I just submitted my application to the Knight News Challenge.

[This is the proposal I’m making for the creation of a new course at BYU.]

[I wrote this originally on Island, the student learning website I’m building at BYU.]

New Note 66 Each one of us wakes up everyday with a problem.

Here’s a great quote from a journal article I’m reading for class.

The Memetracker module I worked on this past summer for Google Summer of Code saw some press today.

A book I read recently helped me finger out why school can be so irritating at times.

This was a comment I left on Jon Mott’s blog post, Getting From Here to There.

This summer I was accepted to Google Summer of Code to build a memetracker application for Drupal.

I recently made my first alpha release of the Drupal Memetracker module.

I’m a big fan of Steven Covey’s “Seven Habits of Highly Effective People” and of th freakonomics blog so when I made a connection today between the two, I knew I had to blog about it.

I was stupid tonight.

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about excellency.

The above is meant to be a slightly snapier introduction to my rant today about hierarchies.

I watched the recent introduction of ubuntu-studio recently with great interest.

I care a lot about learning.

I’ve written before how your blog can replace your resume but I enjoyed reading another blogger’s experience.

I’m very excited to announce that I’ve been accepted to participate in the Google Summer of Code program.

I think I’m going to start doing “link posts” more often.

Executive Summary I propose to write two modules for Drupal as part of Google Summer of Code.

My current job is researching the best use of web2.0 technologies and principles in the classroom.

I love it when someone writes what I’m thinking about writing.