I’ve been following the latest Book Sprint at Eyebeam in New York City with interest as it is a bit of a unique project. They took a textbook that used all proprietary software for the exercises and examples, and re-wrote the book so that the exercises can be completed using all free software instead. Think […]
InfoSlicer is released to the world
Let the remixing begin. I just got word today that the Infoslicer project has been checked into the Sugar code repository at http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/infoslicer, and released under the GPLv2 license. Can I get a whoohoo? Oh yeah! Infoslicer is a Sugar Activity that enables students and instructors around the world to assemble Wikipedia articles into new […]
Embrace the “un”
An article that Janet Swisher and I wrote for STC Intercom magazine about unconferences, BarCamps, and Book Sprints is available as a PDF file from the stc.org site if you are an STC member. I have permission to post it as well, so click the image for a free download of the PDF file. Janet […]