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On This Day...

• 2011: Working with the Editorial Calendar plugin for WordPress; on scheduling posts — In preparation for our trip to the Philippines, I’ve been spreading posts out over several days instead of posting multiple [...]
• 2010: Old notes on staffing a virtual conference booth — It’s fantastic how a blog archive lets me pull up lessons learned from a virtual conference I helped at two [...]
• 2008: Not the best day ever, but that’s okay — A five-hour nap and a mug of double-chocolate truffle hot chocolate later, things are looking much better. Today was One of [...]
• 2007: Weekly review: 2007.09.17 – 2007.09.23 — Hmm… So what happened this week? Getting my book proposal approved was definitely the highlight. That happened on Wednesday, and I’ve been [...]
• 2005: Discovering my inner nerd II — My first class clued me in to my inner nerd. My first lab report brought my inner nerd out in full [...]
• 2005: Wrestling with Windows — They seem to be blocking Skype. WAAAAAH! I booted the Vaio to see if Yahoo Voice still works. Took me almost ten [...]
• 2003: On the introductory sequence — Andrei reminded me about the long e-mail messages I used to send to the mailing list. I’d been keeping some [...]
• 2003: All hail John Wiegley — He also did eshell.el . Wow.
• 2003: Notes in [[Writings.ComputerScienceEducation]] — Partial list of topics: - What is a good first programming language? - Computer science education in small colleges - Mentoring women and [...]
• 2003: Obstacle course? — http://wiki.wxpython.org/index.cgi/ObstacleCourse has an interesting idea. Not filled out yet, but maybe…
• 2003: Repositories — - Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching: higher education, peer reviews - Wisc-Online Resource Center - http://www.uw-igs.org/search/index.asp?viewall=1[University of Wisconsin System [...]
• 2003: The call for open resources in education — http://www.citejournal.org/vol2/iss4/general/article2.cfm Proceedings of the Fourth National Technology Leadership Summit: Open Resources in Education (Edited by Glenn Bull and Joe Garofalo, University of [...]
• 2003: Open source in education — Sharing the Code – http://chronicle.com/free/v49/i47/a03101.htm More colleges and universities see open-source software as an alternative to commercial products. Projects listed: - Comprehensive collaborative [...]
• 2003: Education sites — Oh, wow. Another heap of wonderful sites - Educational Technology wiki - Blogs and wikis on learning - EduResources Weblog — Higher Education [...]
• 2003: Text Twist exercise — - Demonstrates IO, Exceptions, Vectors - Given: the WordTester class – explanation of algorithm to follow, can be treated as black [...]