http://www.cocomment.com/comments/dnorman Copyright 2007 coComment.com 2009-11-26T14:23:36.460+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/images/logo4rss.gif http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=dnorman&conv=49881&comment_id=80105 (anonymous) d - that looks cool. doesn't seem to run on a usable os, though. 2006-05-29T20:56:55.166+02:00 2006-05-29T20:56:55.166+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=dnorman&conv=35841&comment_id=55479 D'Arcy Yeah. I'm surprised at how fast it's running here, too. At least if a script goes renegade on me, they've got a roomful of people tracking it down, so I don't have to worry about pissing off my gracious host :-) 2006-04-29T21:49:17.230+02:00 2006-04-29T21:49:17.230+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=dnorman&conv=32809&comment_id=50932 D'Arcy PodPress - I have to update the colophon :-) PodPress does a LOT of really cool podcast-publishing stuff. http://www.mightyseek.com/podpress/ 2006-04-19T21:26:38.974+02:00 2006-04-19T21:26:38.974+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=dnorman&conv=29541&comment_id=45877 D'Arcy Cole, I'll be watching, from the perspective of perhaps trying something similar at the U of C. 2006-04-08T18:39:39.308+02:00 2006-04-08T18:39:39.308+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=dnorman&conv=28889&comment_id=44915 D'Arcy Jeff - we're already using Mantis and Maven on projects, with WebSVN on some. TRAC looks cool, but I don't really want to throw Yet Another Piece Of Software into the mix at the moment... 2006-04-06T21:15:51.842+02:00 2006-04-06T21:15:51.842+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=dnorman&conv=25356&comment_id=39525 D'Arcy Yeah. It's kind of a mixed bag on my campus, too. On the one hand, most people don't really know what it is, but are curious. On the other hand, we're busy writing press releases committing to being the number 1 innovative podcasting campus in Canada. Might have a bit of work to do toward that end, nevermind the whole buzzword != innovation != good teaching issue. I figure I'll start with a brief tech demo, then move on to show some uses that might actually be pedagogically useful or even interesting. I plan on borrowing liberally from your work, Cole... :-) I'll also see what I can do to record the whole thing. Ideally, including video of myself and any "volunteers", screencam views, visualizer views of the iPod, etc... 2006-03-28T06:01:14.567+02:00 2006-03-28T06:01:14.567+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=dnorman&conv=23819&comment_id=38117 D'Arcy Miguel - I tried the Ubuntu LiveCD, but it borked on something. I'll need to strip out the extra video cards, QuickDraw Accelerator, etc... to get it back to a stock 8600/300, and then I'll try again. Seems like the sanest solution, since it'll be awhile before I will be replacing the old workhorse. 2006-03-24T04:01:37.170+01:00 2006-03-24T04:01:37.170+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=dnorman&conv=23819&comment_id=37282 D'Arcy Lynx works fine on MacOSX, but it requires Terminal - it's a command-line app. Apple has a page on Lynx, but I think I got my copy from the OSXGNU listing. 2006-03-22T16:53:39.831+01:00 2006-03-22T16:53:39.831+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=dnorman&conv=19585&comment_id=31214 D'Arcy Whoah! Thanks for the heads-up, Bill. I've been merrily cron-ing stuff for years now. So, I'll have to edit .plist files to do this in the future? 2006-03-13T22:35:52.198+01:00 2006-03-13T22:35:52.198+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=dnorman&conv=17183&comment_id=27566 D'Arcy Sami - you can hijack my blog any time you like. I guess I've just been having this weird problem trying to reconcile the distinction between my online (free/open, idea-driven, sharing, reflecting, meritocracy, etc...) and offline (project-driven, budget-driven, bureaucracy, etc...). It's feeling more and more tempting to just spend more of my time in the more rewarding and enriching online "world" - but that's not very healthy, especially when the online stuff doesn't pay my mortgage, etc... 2006-03-08T16:12:06.033+01:00 2006-03-08T16:12:06.033+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=dnorman&conv=4888&comment_id=18471 D'Arcy Todd. thanks for the link. PlanetPlanet is just a simple aggregator, though... What I've got in mind is an aggregator plus query engine, letting you create custom views on the aggregated data rather than just having predefined "Rivers of News" views. It also needs to understand the concept of a Person (student or teacher) and be able to associate a Person with their Feeds and whatever educational contexts are relevant (institution, faculty, department, class, section, cohort, group, etc...) 2006-02-24T18:14:09.657+01:00 2006-02-24T18:14:09.657+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=dnorman&conv=4888&comment_id=16143 D'Arcy Mark, thanks for chiming in! The system you were describing was pretty specifically tailored for your group's workflow, but your description of how it worked sparked a lot of ideas for me (and many others) about what a more generalized tool could do for education (and, I suppose, other areas as well). But, you're right - generalized is hard :-) I've got somewhat limited time to devote to this as well, since it's officially "off the books" and therefore a personal/pet project. With a 3-year-old at home, the amount of time I have to dedicate to writing code is stunningly small at the moment. 2006-02-22T17:20:17.399+01:00 2006-02-22T17:20:17.399+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=dnorman&conv=4888&comment_id=15108 D'Arcy I think the genetics project they mentioned at Northern Voice is an internal tool, likely pretty locked down. I haven't gone searching for public info about the project - the only times I've heard about it have been at Northern Voice (both '05 and '06 were attended by someone from the project) 2006-02-21T16:46:30.861+01:00 2006-02-21T16:46:30.861+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=dnorman&conv=4888&comment_id=14579 D'Arcy Brent, thanks! I'd installed the RSS View and AutoTag plugins - RSS seems to work, but AutoTag appears to have borked the ability for Gregarius to update feeds. Doh... :-) Multiple users is a feature on the roadmap for the mid-range future development plans. That's pretty curious, but at least it's on their radar... 2006-02-21T01:04:33.322+01:00 2006-02-21T01:04:33.322+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=dnorman&conv=4888&comment_id=13767 D'Arcy Actually, with a couple of plugins, gregarius gets pretty darned close to EduGlu right out of the gate. Just need to teach it a few concepts (People, Cohorts, Classes...) and it's good to go... Autotagger plugin sounds like it will inherit tags from tags or categories on the items in a feed. http://plugins.gregarius.net/index.php?req=info&id=22 RSS View sounds like it will add RSS output for any page. http://plugins.gregarius.net/index.php?req=info&id=7 Now to figure out persistent searches, and a way to tie multiple feeds to an individual... 2006-02-20T07:19:38.058+01:00 2006-02-20T07:19:38.058+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=dnorman&conv=4888&comment_id=12620 D'Arcy In my head, at least, EduGlu can't be tied to any specific service(s). We can't possibly predict what students and teachers will be using to publish stuff. So, I'm hoping to just include anything than can squirt out an RSS feed. You'd go to your "My EduGlu Sources" page or something and just start giving it your various feeds, which will be associated with your identity for association with classes and cohorts etc... I guess one thing that might be different between EduGlu and PLE, is that EduGlu will have no facilities for publishing content on its own. You won't post something to EduGlu - you'll post it to whatever service you're using, and EduGlu will pull it into the data bucket for it to be routed to whoever cares about your and/or your topic/tag. Clear as mud, I know... :-) 2006-02-18T20:11:38.363+01:00 2006-02-18T20:11:38.363+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=dnorman&conv=4888&comment_id=9873 D'Arcy Bryan - I'm thinking this needs to be an institutional aggregation. There would be nothing stopping an individual from registering with other off-campus Glus as well, but the School will need a copy of whatever is used for assessment - currently they have to retain paper copies of stuff for X many years. Having a version of stuff available in the school glu repository would help there as well. The EduGlu software would be open source, so anyone would be free to run their own. Haven't even thought about the copyright spectre. Oy. And what happens if Faculty use the aggregation as part of a research project? Ethics issues ensue. Ick... 2006-02-15T20:27:06.855+01:00 2006-02-15T20:27:06.855+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=dnorman&conv=1499&comment_id=3031 D'Arcy I think the plan is to be essentially online for Three Amigo Camp - Skype, whatever. It's about social software, man! 2006-02-08T00:15:19.851+01:00 2006-02-08T00:15:19.851+01:00