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[Dutch] We mogen niet zeuren....

Pierre Gorissen wordt goed gelezen. En ook zijn EduKast wordt goed beluisterd. Maar lees ook eens de reactie van Catharina Bethlehem, zelfstandig ondernemer en voorstander van open standaarden. Zie Gezeur over open source software | Kletskous

Pierre Gorrissen bekritiseerd in deze podcast de brief van Jan Stedehouder aan de NMA en de reacties daarop. Pierre slaat in de podcast de plank naar mijn mening behoorlijk mis.

[Dutch] Interessante (gratis) conferentie

Gezien op Livre - Open, Vrij en Duurzaam: Europese onderwijsconferentie in het teken van delen :

In Utrecht vindt op vrijdag 14 december in de bibliotheek van de Universiteit Utrecht (Boothzaal - Campus de Uithof) een Europese conferentie ('Networks, Communities & Learning: Show that you Share!') plaats, georganiseerd door het Bazaar-project en IVLOS, het onderwijsinstituut van de Universiteit Utrecht). Doel van het Bazaar-project, dat tot stand is gekomen met financiële steun van de Europese Unie, is het opzetten van een community rondom open source software in het onderwijs en de ontwikkeling van open content en Open Educational Resources (OERs).

Weet iemand hoe zich dit verhoudt tot het het SELF project?

[slightly off topic] Kuali is being watched...

Adam Cooper in the UK recently blogged about Kuali Student Services System .

A glance at the Technical Architecture Principles is worthwhile, both for what it says as well as what it doesn’t. It is very committed to SOAP web services and service orientation. On this front, I think the student services system effort will be useful even if it fails miserably: a contributor and proving ground for the principles of the eFramework.

I would agree with Adam that some more focus on IMS specifications would be nice. Also check out the comment by John Norman... :-)

IMAP and Gmail

Recently Gmail got a great new feature, namely IMAP support. What else do you want (or need)? IMAP is an advanced email protocol. Basically it means that changes made to Gmail will be synchronised anytime anyplace anydevice.

Vacation

Will be back on Nov 11, 2007. See ya!

What if... this was your last lecture?

This has been picked up already in the blogosphere and on news sites, here, in the New York Times, or here.... But anyway.
The concept of the 'last lecture' is meant for professors to really think about what they would like to tell in their last lecture. A few 'last lectures' already have been given. A really powerful concept, isn't it? Forget all the humbug and daily routines: you have just so little time to deliver your last lecture. It better be good!
Recently, professor Randy Pausch really gave his last lecture. This wasn't just an exercise for him, since he has pancreatic cancer and only has a few months left to live. Just take a look at the video for a few minutes: it is really impressive. The video is brought to us under a Creative Commons license ("The video and transcript will technically be under a "creative commons" license, which will be a legal way of saying that you may use them for non-commercial purposes, so long as you don't alter them, and you give attribution. Please bear with me; figuring out that legal stuff is secondary to my other priorities.")
Update: there is also a great video by Pausch on time management (made in 1998, without Powerpoint....).