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Posts from ‘March, 2010’

10 movies that you may not have watched, but might want to hunt down

When I watched “The Stoning of Soraya M.” yesterday, I thought to come up with another 9 movies to create a list of movies that you may not have watched, but might want to hunt down.
You will notice a strong Indian theme in my selection. When I lived in Munich, it was very easy to [...]

Check marks upside down

This is a true curiosity which caused some good laughter today. A colleague showed me his check marks in Firefox today. They were upside down and have been so for a long time. He does not have a clue why they are not the usual way. It does not matter on which web site he [...]

Gutenberg search from within Google

Today I needed to look up a text on Project Gutenberg. As I did not remember its address perfectly, I just searched it on Google. Nothing out of the extraordinary here. However, once the result list was in front of me, I saw another search field there just for the Gutenberg web site. That rocked.

My future of education

Dave Cormier and George Siemens requested help in determining the future of education. In my vision brainstorm I produced the following video response.
[HD quality available on the YouTube page]
I used the song “Learn to Fly” by Josh Woodward. It is one of my favorite songs, and I think it fits quite nicely in this context [...]

Compfight – Flickr – Creative Commons

Alec Couros had asked for mini lectures for his last EC&I 831 course in Winter 2009. I had almost forgotten to check out these micro lectures, but finally searched for them on the course site. There I came across Rodd Lucier’s 8.5-minute video explaining how to use Compfight to search Flickr for Creative Commons licensed [...]