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So apparently the Oxford Junior Dictionary has been making some tough decisions about which words to include and which to drop in its dictionary. Acorn, bray, and canary are out. Attachment, blog, and chatroom are in. (There is a whole

I just listened to Dave Humphrey’s description of Mozilla project there. (This was posed by Mozilla as a model for their involvement in education.) It was very interesting. Here are a few notes: * Seneca College began this project looking

I’m brainstorming ideas for short video vignettes for the open writing space. The idea is to have short (1-2 min.) interviews with writers of all types on a variety of topics, ideally topics that would help inspire or develop other

Just got off the initial web conference for MozOpenEdCourse. One initial impression is that both the course content and the group participants are very diverse. Of course, this has its pluses and negatives. In a six week course, though, I

I am participating in another open ed course, this one co-organized by Mozilla, ccLearn and P2PU. Here are the various course pages and forums for anyone interested in following along:  Course outline Course discussion group A few interesting things about