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Monthly Archives: May 2009
Mozilla Education: what getting involved looks like
This past Thursday and Friday I led a short workshop on getting started in Mozilla from a professor’s point of view. I’ve put up the outline of what I presented, along with notes and links. You are welcome to improve and correct this, since I’ll likely use it again.
It was an interesting time, [...]
Posted in CDOT, Mozilla, Mozilla Education, Seneca, Teaching Open Source Comments closed
Daytime Nighthawk
I saw my first Nighthawk a few days ago. While the girls played in a garden after an event we went to as a family, I wandered under a large maple tree. I was looking for what might be there, and in this case, it was a roosting Nighthawk. I could have picked it up [...]
Posted in Nature Comments closed
Behold, I make all things new
There is no tree in our forest that dies so completely each winter as the Tamarack. In winter they are skeletons, frozen vertically in the snow. And in spring there is nothing so shocking as the re-animation of these bones. I have to go and touch them with my fingers each year to believe it [...]
Posted in Idea Factory, Nature Comments closed
Mozilla, Education…Hybrid
I’ve been thinking lately about Mark’s posts on hybrid organizations (see one, two, three). Many of the things he’s talking about in these posts overlap with ideas I have about education and institutions (cf esp. the writing of Ivan Illich). Today I find myself sandwiched between two Mozilla Education calls: one this past Monday where [...]
Posted in Mozilla, Mozilla Education, Seneca, Teaching Open Source Comments closed
“Practical Programming” arrives
Greg Wilson wrote to share the good news that their “CS-1 in Python” book, called “Practical Programming“, is out and ready to buy.
I’ve been spending a lot of time in Python lately, and I’m really enjoying it. I’m also impressed with how fast it is. When I was a student learning to start programming, I [...]
Posted in CDOT, Mozilla Education, Seneca, Teaching Open Source Comments closed
DXR pre-alpha: Source Code Lexicography
Today I hit a major milestone in a project I’ve been working on for more than a year. My goal is to replace MXR with a version that includes static analysis data for the C++, IDL, and JS in the Mozilla tree. It’s a project I don’t know quite what to call, but the name [...]
Posted in CDOT, Mozilla, Mozilla Education, Seneca, Teaching Open Source Comments closed
Growing the Mozilla Education community
Mark blogged the other day about active Mozilla student projects that have been happening recently. It was encouraging to see so many listed together. It was even more encouraging to hear from people saying, “Hey, what about this great stuff happening over here?” Good question, and thanks for letting us know!
Growing the community of people [...]
Posted in CDOT, Mozilla, Mozilla Education, Seneca, Teaching Open Source Comments closed
Gravy
Luke’s giving me a hard time about not blogging my essential ingredient list (which I’ll do another time), so here’s a round-about way to get to my list. One of the things I enjoy most about cooking is making sauces. Last night I made a mushroom gravy to go with a prime rib I cooked [...]
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“Is spatial ability the ‘Geek Gene’?”
I was interested to read Mark Guzdial’s discussion of spatial ability as a potential predictor for ability in math and computing. I’ve often pondered this with regard to my own teaching of computing, as well as for myself; however, my thoughts run the opposite way, as I am someone with severe spatial challenges who is [...]
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On seeing the Common Loon