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now tumbl(r)ing: besel & mo

this summer, i’ll experiment with tumblr (i already have some experience related to my literary ambitions). i will now blog regularly about my research in second life using tumblr. but not in the usual way…i need stimulation and distraction at … Continue reading

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Educamp 2010 Hamburg

Das Educamp ist, wie vielfach beschrieben, schwer zu beschreiben. Ich hoffe, es bleibt so erfrischend – und wenn nicht, dann machen wir eben eine andere Dose auf. Continue reading

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end of course but not end of story

My course on business information systems ended today with the last presentation. 13 absolutely amazing blog-based student projects, some of them actual learning modules, some info sites, and some community sites, were turned in. Continue reading

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microblogging rocks

in his blog on “the twitter experience” (in german), michael kerres suggests that twitter, one of a growing number of browser-operated microblogging tools “is not suited to support teaching/learning processes and should not be used that way either. it is … Continue reading

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New CMS – Drupal 6

I am excited about finally turning my “forever construction site” into a proper CMS system. After looking at mambo/joomla!, and smaller cousins like miaCMS, skeletonz (my favourite at first b/c built with python) I finally settled on Drupal. This is … Continue reading

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Total recall

The German magazine DER SPIEGEL (16/2008) features the MyLifeBits project of Gordon Bell – a complete digital memory of all activities of this mega computer scientist. Recorded in particular with a minicam hanging in front of Bell’s chest at all … Continue reading

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Update to wordpress 2.5

Successfully updated to wordpress 2.5 – my first upgrade, and it was a breeze – and I established, with the help of kai, a brand new e-learning blog for the berlin school of economics. the admin functions-and-feel for 2.5 are … Continue reading

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Blogvergence

For the past 16 months, I have maintained not one, not two, but three different blogs in (virtually) different locations (i.e. all hosted by WordPress ) – it occurred to me only now (??) to move all those blogs into … Continue reading

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Free books … python

I couldn’t really come up with a proper title for this posting. Lately, I have made contact with Python, an object-oriented, high-level scripting language (which I first noticed consciously after reading about Pausch). There is a lovely free text bookby … Continue reading

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