Monthly Archives: March 2012

You can

By david.humphrey | Published: March 22, 2012
Dad, I don’t think I want to learn this song for piano this week. How come? Well, it’s scary.  Look at the picture.  Look at the words. Why don’t you change it? I can do that?  I’m allowed? Get your pencil crayons out and change it So I can change the picture and the words? You can. … Dad! Look at this awesome song [...]
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Two notes on books

By david.humphrey | Published: March 19, 2012
1. eBook For my birthday my wife bought me a Kindle.  Since then I’ve had a chance to read a number of books using it, and I wanted to say something about my transformation from anti- to pro-eBook.  The first thing to say is that I received a Kindle vs. a tablet.  I got what Jesse [...]
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Elsewhere and Otherwise

By david.humphrey | Published: March 19, 2012
One of the great difficulties I have in teaching is in trying to help my students understand the importance of narrative and personal reflection in their work.  I routinely see people doing amazing things, but being unable or unaware of the significance of what is happening.  Because it is happening to them at all they [...]
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Required Reading

By david.humphrey | Published: March 17, 2012
I refuse to assign text books for my courses, which is likely something I should discuss at some point–the cost, the unethical practices of the industry producing them, the issues of copyright, but most importantly, the fact that they can’t possibly keep up with how fast and frequently I need to alter my heading as [...]
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Next-Next Generation Web Making

By david.humphrey | Published: March 11, 2012
This year one of the main focuses of the Mozilla Foundation is to enable web makers through the creation of software, tools, education, and community.  I’m helping lead the software teams that are building things like Popcorn, Popcorn Maker, Badges, Gladius, etc.  Mark’s done some good writing and talking about what web making means, as [...]
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International Women’s Day 2012

By david.humphrey | Published: March 8, 2012
I was in a series of meetings today, led by my colleague Dawn Mercer, and paused to reflect on how important she is to the work I do at Seneca’s Centre for Development of Open Technology, and how big an influence she has had in the open source research we do internationally. I remember first being [...]
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