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Downes

  1. Back home in Moncton, where it's 24 degrees cooler than it was in Toronto yesterday - what a difference! 12:41 PM May 29th via web
  2. Back from the #bluejays game - Hutch with 7 innings of shutout ball showed us something special 9:15 PM May 28th via web
  3. I've turned off the #change11 aggregator and newsletter - thank you everyone for a wonderful course 7:06 AM May 28th via web
  4. @carusb @atreloar @scilib Agree with the need for fixity. So I archive everything I do on my website. Institutions tend to throw things out. 6:51 AM May 28th via web in reply to carusb
  5. Photos from Lake Erie flickr.com/photos/stephen… from Waterloo flickr.com/photos/stephen… and from a quick side-trip to Lake Huron flickr.com/photos/stephen… 6:52 PM May 27th via web
  6. Hangout failed, but audio & slides of talk "Publishing Paradigms of the Future: Where are We Headed?" now available at downes.ca/presentation/2… 9:35 AM May 27th via web
  7. Testing a live video stream via Google Hangout of talk at Canadian Assn of Learned Journals Waterloo - no guarantees - youtube.com/watch?v=KXhe_V… 7:40 AM May 27th via web
  8. Photos from Long Point, on Lake Erie. flickr.com/photos/stephen… 7:35 PM May 26th via web
  9. I'm in Guelph to speak Sunday at the Congress of Social Sciences and Humanities in Waterloo (Canadian Association of Learned Journals) 7:22 PM May 25th via web
  10. More than 5000 downloads of 'Connectivism and Connective Knowledge' since the launch, thanks world - downes.ca/me/mybooks.htm 9:16 AM May 22nd via web
  11. @dlnorman Wow thanks D'Arcy, posted to eBooks page downes.ca/me/mybooks.htm - added the .doc version of Access::Future & will fix the rest soon. 10:11 AM May 20th via web in reply to dlnorman
  12. @dlnorman The ePub version of CCK looks great in Calibre, thank you - I've posted it on my eBooks page - downes.ca/me/mybooks.htm 6:18 AM May 20th via web in reply to dlnorman
  13. @dlnorman I've uploaded a slightly revised version to correct a couple of formatting errors. 4:48 PM May 19th via web in reply to dlnorman
  14. @dlnorman Yes, you can get a doc or docx version from downes.ca/me/mybooks.htm 4:24 PM May 19th via web in reply to dlnorman
  15. @dlnorman Sur4e, if iBoopks will produce a nice ePub version, that would be great! 4:12 PM May 19th via web in reply to dlnorman
  16. Couldn't get it to convert to ePub so there's no reader version - if you're a publisher and want to publish it, email me - first one gets it 3:34 PM May 19th via web
  17. Well... it's done. 605 pages (you've been warned) PDF. Official announcement Monday. downes.ca/files/Connecti… 3:30 PM May 19th via web
  18. Just back home after a longish session in the dentist's chair *sigh* 12:24 PM May 17th via web
  19. Listening is important - but if you do not speak, people do not know you are listening to them, and will fall silent. 7:46 AM May 17th via web
  20. Slides, MP3 and Elluminate recording from Terry Anderson's #change11 session today are now available: change.mooc.ca/post/705 12:58 PM May 16th via web