Ruminations on the Digital Realm


Archive for June, 2006

Joomlarized

One down, three to go. Upgrading and updating various domains is fun to do but time consuming. When the old Visionplateau went down I ended up with a backup of my Open Source eLearning site, but without a lot of knowledge to restore it at the new hosting location. And, maybe that was good as [...]

Friday, June 30th, 2006

I hate teachers!!

Well, not all of them of course, but today…..
Recently I was asked to give an expert opinion/review on two final thesis by a university. Both documents were sorely lacking evidence of skill, content and the necessary scientific identity that you might expect from students on this level. And I know what I am talking about [...]

Wednesday, June 28th, 2006

One laptop per child: another fish in Lake Victoria?

The last few days I started to ruminate about an interesting discussion during my university years. I studied Societal History in the late 80s, early 90s and decided that I needed something to really round of my education. And so I embarked on a major in Development Economics in order to learn and understand the [...]

Tuesday, June 27th, 2006

Tried and tested?

Two parts of the OpenSource eLearning site were installed today: Joomla with a few extensions (Joomlaboard, Community Builder, DocMan, Zoom, eWriting and CivicCRM) and Dokeos. Fortunately the previous templates still functioned, so the sites at least look familiar.
Joomla and it’s extensions is mostly stable stuff. As stable as open source development will allow that is, [...]

Sunday, June 25th, 2006

How to get yourself a writers’ contract.

About a year ago I decided to create my first life plan. After reading up on Stephen Covey’s The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and listening to audio recordings by Anthony Robbins and Jim Rohn, I decided that this was definitely the way to go. Why? Because my resume would give you the same [...]

Saturday, June 24th, 2006