Taking OSCon by Wiki
OSCon was a wonderful experience, and not just because the weather back home was 30-50 degrees warmer. During the three days that Jim, our volunteer Jamela, and I ran the Wikiotics booth, we were...
View ArticleSpeak and the world will listen
When Jim and I founded Wikiotics almost four years ago, one of our goals was to make it as easy to exchange native audio recordings as others have made it to exchange flash cards. Our first step...
View ArticlePrivacy in context
The following is an email I sent to my father who recently read this piece at The Atlantic (The Philosopher Whose Fingerprints Are All Over the FTC’s New Approach to Privacy), which is all about...
View ArticleThe next billion students
Part of what makes working in educational technology exciting are the occasional moments you have that are exhilarating and daunting at the same time. I had one such moment recently while putting...
View ArticleWikiotics on P2PU
July is all about growing the community here at Wikiotics; last week with my trip to Washington DC for Wikimania and today with the launch of our P2PU course: “Build the LLT“. If you are interested in...
View ArticleSpectrum Impossible
Yesterday C-Net ran a good and detailed piece called The coming wireless spectrum apocalypse and how it hits you. It covers the current state of the wireless phone industry and how the AT&T/Verizon...
View ArticleCracking the NSA’s Code
If you have heard anything about the NSA this month, you have heard grand statements and sweeping generalizations. More than likely you have heard a whole gallery of commentators try and relate the...
View ArticleCracking the NSA’s Code: Part 2
Yesterday we looked at how the NSA collects raw data from fiber optic cables and uses that to build an index of “metadata” that maps nearly all communications in the country going back to 2001. Today...
View ArticleCracking the NSA’s Code: Part 3
So far this week we have looked at two of the three main components of the NSA’s surveillance system: how the NSA collects raw data from fiber optic cables and uses that to build an index of “metadata”...
View ArticleCracking the NSA’s code: Part4. The End
This week we have looked at the three main elements of the NSA’s surveillance system: Bulk data collection and the construction of an index for all communications in the country, use of private...
View ArticleLearning Bilingually
This September the Last Language Textbook is coming to the Teunis Bergen PS 9 School in Brooklyn. Our Wikiotics Fellows have spent the summer building resources to help parents of the school’s...
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Language exchange launch
Last night we began the second stage of the Last Language Textbook campaign at Brooklyn’s PS 9 elementary school. Fifteen parents and teachers gathered together to start a new language exchange...
View ArticleInnovation in practice
In each Supreme Court brief that SFLC has filed over the years we have included a little note on the first page declaring that the brief was made using only free software. This point was particularly...
View ArticleWikiConference USA
This past weekend was the inaugural WikiConference USA, a New York area conference focused on all things wiki. I presented a summary of our work with PS 9 at a session on Saturday morning and was...
View ArticleTechnological Wizardry
The Washington Post editorial board just suggested that the tension between consumer’s right to encrypt their devices and the government’s legal power to access data with a search warrant could be...
View ArticleDe-Chroming the Acer c720 Chromebook
What is De-Chroming? This talk is an instructional companion to the SFLC @ 10 Disposable Computing talk. De-Chroming is the process of taking a Chromebook laptop, in this case the Acer c720, and...
View ArticleFree Technology: Transcribing audio interviews with Transcriber and Audacity
(Originally posted on the Columbia LRC Blog) Welcome to the first post in our new “Free Technology” blog series. In this series we will look at some of the best free technologies out there and how you...
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FLEATing Summer
(Originally posted on the Columbia LRC Blog) What happens when you gather hundreds of professionals in the language education field from multiple continents and give them the run of Harvard’s campus...
View ArticleSelf-publishing – Some H5P tests
Once you have your own space online you can start using some of the great authoring tools out there to build native online materials and then host them directly on your site. This helps your students...
View ArticleLearning in Public
For the last six weeks I have been running an experimental project at Columbia, an online course called “Reclaim a personal space for education online” but which I think of as “Learning in Public”. The...
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