January 2011
32 posts
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“The massive problem with exams is that, in the end, you only do well at them if...”
– Turning exams on their head | Informed Education
Information foraging theory →
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On agile Learning →
Even though it’s basically clarifying & rehashing a bunch of old ideas, this is a great read and sums up a lot of the things I was talking about early last year. Anyone involved in Education care to give an opinion?
“It’s not education, it’s training - and thousands of commercial...”
– Skills vs literacies and my shady past. - The Followers of the Apocalypse
Offside →
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HTTP oddity - This makes no Sense
According to the DNS, the domain points to heroku:
→ host tumble.dasmith.co.uk
tumble.dasmith.co.uk is an alias for proxy.heroku.com.
proxy.heroku.com has address 50.16.215.196
proxy.heroku.com has address 75.101.145.87
proxy.heroku.com has address 75.101.163.44
proxy.heroku.com has address 174.129.212.2
Yet if I send a TRACE request, I get this back:
Content-Length: 277
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011...
Inspectr - subs & inspection management →
I had entirely forgotten that I made this, and never finished work on it.
Still, apart from the interface and one bit of functionality it does the job it was intended to.
The story so far | Naomi Atkinson →
a fantastic example of an “online CV”. Never seen anything like it before - I love it.
Google Has A Secret Fleet Of Automated Toyota... →
iPad: Scroll or Card? →
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CSS background image hacks →
Social learning theory →
timbuckteeth: Social learning theory http://dlvr.it/CywVp
(via Instapaper)
Social learning theory →
timbuckteeth: Social learning theory http://dlvr.it/CywVp
(via Instapaper)
The PhD Problem →
Talk of a higher education bubble may not be idle chatter http://j.mp/dTomKy
(via Instapaper)
Party people: Gregarious types may have more... →
New research suggests the ‘love hormone’ oxytocin may determine how sociable we are