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The Third Revolution Will Be Tweeted

by Sam Harrelson on 24. Jul, 2010 in Open Source, Technology, Web Apps

Thanks to Tim Maly for this pointer on Twitter (always enjoy his tweets): .bbpBox19431232299 {background:url(http://s.twimg.com/a/1279848828/images/themes/theme9/bg.gif) #ffffff;padding:20px;} p.bbpTweet{background:#fff;padding:10px 12px 10px 12px;margin:0;min-height:48px;color:#000;font-size:18px !important;line-height:22px;-moz-border-radius:5px;-webkit-border-radius:5px} p.bbpTweet span.metadata{display:block;width:100%;clear:both;margin-top:8px;padding-top:12px;height:40px;border-top:1px solid #fff;border-top:1px solid #e6e6e6} p.bbpTweet span.metadata span.author{line-height:19px} p.bbpTweet span.metadata span.author img{float:left;margin:0 7px 0 0px;width:38px;height:38px} p.bbpTweet a:hover{text-decoration:underline}p.bbpTweet span.timestamp{font-size:12px;display:block} Amazing @wired article about Mosaic written when the rise of graphical browsers was far from [...]

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Textbooks Must Die

by Sam Harrelson on 17. Jul, 2010 in Books, Education, Open Source, Technology

Exactly what I’m doing this year with my 8th Grade Physical Science students… A Classroom Experiment: Ditching a Textbook – ProfHacker – The Chronicle of Higher Education: “I’ll be replacing the traditional ‘conflicting viewpoints’ textbook, though, with materials gathered from a variety of resources: the web, the news media, the popular press, and more traditional [...]

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GriffinScience Text(s)book

by Sam Harrelson on 13. Jul, 2010 in Books, Education, Open Source, Philosophy

I’m working on our GriffinScience Text(s)book for next “year” (not sure why we call them school years…) and it’s coming together nicely. We aren’t going to be using a standard textbook for many reasons. Cost is one, but the assumption that science can be learned via a medium like a textbook is antithetical to the [...]

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Firefox or Chromium?

by Sam Harrelson on 09. Jul, 2010 in Google, Open Source, Technology

I started using the web very early as a middle schooler in the early 90′s. I don’t remember the first browsers I used when I realized what a “browser” was, but I do remember being in love with Mosaic then Netscape (and always disliking/distrusting Microsoft’s browser from the beginning). That love translated into affection for [...]

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