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Month: August 2010

Response to the e-portfolio debate

August 31, 2010 Kristina D.C. Hoeppner

As this is a longish comment on “The ePortfolio Debate” by Mike Bogle, I post it on my own blog. Hello Mike, Thank you for bringing the Twitter conversation onto your blog. That’s how I realized that there was more going on than just the 2 tweets I had seen earlier. 🙂 You are correct […]

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Kiwi-ism and not Internet slang

August 26, 2010August 26, 2010 Kristina D.C. Hoeppner

My learning of Kiwi English continues. And it is an interesting journey. Almost from Day 1 did I encounter “Ta” in emails from colleagues. As we work in an IT company, my first thought was: check an internet slang dictionary. I found “thanks again” for “ta” in Netlingo. Thus, I didn’t wonder about it anymore. […]

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Moodle and Mahara at ASHS

August 26, 2010 Kristina D.C. Hoeppner

Mark Osborne, Deputy Principal at Albany Senior High School (ASHS) spoke at Aotea College today about how his high school uses Moodle and Mahara. Albany Senior High (near Auckland) is New Zealand’s first open source school that promotes using open source software but also engages in open education beyond the software aspects. Since my arrival […]

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Exploring my Desire

August 23, 2010 Kristina D.C. Hoeppner

The HTC Desire is my latest toy. Instead of an iPhone 4 I wanted to explore an Android phone, especially after having seen a Nexus One of a colleague. I started transferring all my contacts, installed a few apps and set up my friend streams. Currently, I am in the clean-up phase and have to […]

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Agile undercover

August 23, 2010 Kristina D.C. Hoeppner

Agile software development is still a bit obscure to me. As I have been hearing a lot about it recently, primarily through company presentations at the Meet & Greet in preparation of Summer of Tech, I went to a presentation today to find out more about “agile”. The Agile Professionals Network organized the presentation “Agile […]

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