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Archive for November 2007

Here’s one way to think about the power of networks

Posted by: junea on: November 18, 2007

Ok, so in the previous post I critiqued the problem of thinking about networks and technology in general terms. Here is an example of thinking about networks in a more focused, and I think more helpful way. Check out this link:

Networks have always existed

Posted by: junea on: November 18, 2007

I came across this post from Weblogg-ed today, and spurred some thinking I’ve been doing about “networks”. There has been a lot of punditry these days where various folks tout the rise of networks and the power of technologies which connect people. The intuitive thought is that the Internet, mobile communications, and applications like Facebook [...]

More Free Curriculum

Posted by: junea on: November 15, 2007

HippCampus: http://hippocampus.org/?loc=interstitialskip
This one is not really an open source project, but a free resource for curricular materals. They invite academic institutions and publishers to contribute.

Open Source Curriculum

Posted by: junea on: November 13, 2007

A friend pointed me to this link the other day and it got me very excited. It is an open-source hub for early literacy curriculum. We definitely need more of this kind of open curriculum, sharing, and dissemination that is built by the collective wisdom of teachers everywhere. IMO, one enhancement of any open-source project [...]


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