This blog post relates to my study of Open Educational Resources as part of my Emerging Technologies for Learning Program of study at the University of Manitoba. This week our instructor has given us free reign for our weekly blog topic, in part asking "What are some of the issues that bother you about OER?"... Continue Reading →
OERs: Publishing Software – Open source or Open API
This blog post relates to my study of Open Educational Resources as part of my Emerging Technologies for Learning Program of study at the University of Manitoba. I have been asked to comment on the use of “free” open source applications in the context of OERs. I blogged about this just recently. My classmate, Stu... Continue Reading →
Week 4: OER Content Creation
This blog post relates to my study of Open Educational Resources as part of my Emerging Technologies for Learning Program of study at the University of Manitoba. Questions for this week in my course are: How familiar are you with these [Audacity, GIMP, Joomla, Drupal, WordPress, Blogger, Open Office, Google Docs, Blender, and so on]... Continue Reading →
OER: Week 3 – Finding OERs
This blog post relates to my study of Open Educational Resources as part of my Emerging Technologies for Learning Program of study at the University of Manitoba. Instructions for this week in my course are to: ...critique a library web site near you (you can use University of Manitoba Libraries, or your own institutional library,... Continue Reading →
Remote Debugging of PHP with Komodo IDE on Mac OS X
I am doing development on Mac OS X 10.7, with Komodo IDE 6.1.3 using PHP and Apache, both installed from Macports. I want to enable remote debugging of my PHP scripts running under Apache using Komodo. Following instructions from Activestate's website, I have configured my system as shown below to make it work. I have... Continue Reading →
Copyrights of publicly funded research
I am responding to a blog post by Stu where he highlights the benefits of the Budapest Open Access Initiative. Artefacts created by publicly funded institutions should be licensed in the public domain, using licences such as the creative commons. I agree with you Stu. This ensures that it remains in the public domain, including... Continue Reading →
Week 2: Introduction to Open Educational Resources (OERs)
This blog post relates to my study of Open Educational Resources as part of my Emerging Technologies for Learning Program of study at the University of Manitoba. Open Educational Resources provide an opportunity for educators both individually and as collectives (such as institutions) to work collaboratively rather than competitively on the creation of knowledge and... Continue Reading →
Installing DBD::Oracle on RHEL6 with Oracle Instant Client 11.2 rpm
To install the Perl DBD::Oracle module on RHEL6, with the oracle instant client rpms installed, you need to type the following sequence of commands. Keep in mind that 11.2 can be exchanged for your version of Oracle, and that client64 can be exchanged for just client if you are using 32bit linux. From a shell... Continue Reading →
The Mac OS X Terminal – My keyboard mappings
I made the switch from Windows to Mac OS as my chosen desktop operating system nearly 4 years ago, and I've never looked back. I continue to use Linux as my preferred server operating system. Of a handful of frustrations from my switch to Mac OS, one I have solved today. The Mac OS Terminal... Continue Reading →
Installing PHP5 on Mac OS X with Macports
To install PHP5 with the right variants, to support: Apache2 Pear Komodo IDE's Simulate CGI Environment Debugging I chose: sudo port install php5 +apache2 +pear +fastcgi
