Learning with the Fang

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Entries from April 2007

A ‘write only’ view of Jimmy Wales in Adelaide

April 23rd, 2007 · 2 Comments

Spent an interesting day at education.au’s Jimmy Wales event in Adelaide. Did a little experiment this time – no laptop. no fancy PDA – just my trusty phone with sms. Used Twitter to ‘tweet’ profound ideas instead of taking notes.
All was going fine until Jimmy Wales noticed myself and the person sitting next [...]

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A reason to go and see Jimmy Wales in AUS

April 19th, 2007 · 1 Comment

If you haven’t registered for the education.au seminar with Jimmy Wales in your State, then go and do so immediately! And while you are there, make sure you take heaps of photos (especially of the workshop in your state) videos and audio, publish them with the tag ‘eduausem2007‘ – with a flexible license that [...]

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Regular Expressions and Taxonomy Directed Folksonomies

April 17th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Here is a little gem of an idea that should prove useful to the next Edna proof of concept project. I want the team to explore the idea of using regular expressions instead of just ‘keywords’ as we think about ways of collecting and managing the information that the previous project brings to us.
UPDATE:
As [...]

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CEGSA AGM – Live Blogging

April 3rd, 2007 · 3 Comments

Just finished my talk ‘How can 2 work for you?’ – at the CEGSA AGM from the EDC in Hindmarsh, South Australia.
UPDATE: Oops had e/mails about the bad links to the movie – sorry, fixed now. As a bonus, wander over to http://fang.blip.tv/ if you want editable versions of all my video stuff [...]

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