Monthly Archives: January 2011

PBS, Popcorn.js, POTUS

By david.humphrey | Published: January 28, 2011
PBS is writing about our work with them this week on the President’s State of the Union Speech and Mozilla, so I thought I’d write something, too. This week my team and I at Seneca’s CDOT were handed a great opportunity.  My colleague Brett Gaylor was in Washington, meeting with PBS and showing them some of [...]
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Chinese Cherry Blossoms

By david.humphrey | Published: January 24, 2011
Our girls are taking piano lessons, and really enjoying it, in no small part because their teacher is so good.  Her approach, which favours understanding over memorization and a reasonable learning pace over a standards approach, means that they are much more willing to experiment beyond the sheet music they’ve learned.  I wasn’t taught this [...]
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On the web as soundscape

By david.humphrey | Published: January 19, 2011
One of the things I love about twitter is the very thing that so many point to as its great weakness, namely, that everything gets boiled down to something so short it can’t help be lack for content.  When people say this, they imagine that we always talk about something for which the content is [...]
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Credibility

By david.humphrey | Published: January 7, 2011
Yesterday I spent the day in various curriculum meetings with my colleagues at Seneca.  We were discussing, among other things, how best to update our Internet programming courses (conclusions: html5, more js, jquery), where we’re at with our programming stream, and how best to deal with the need for more project management knowledge in our [...]
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