“I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.” – Woody Allen I’ve been using speed reading software for several years now (in combination with more traditional methods) to skim non-fiction books over the weekend. These aren’t like the older programs, which aim to train you to read normal books faster. Instead, they Continue reading

I’m realizing some of the design description of the Federated Classroom Wiki on Hapgood is out of date. So here is how it is currently working (or soon to work based on some scheduled coding). This is the process you would use as a user. Setup Install! Your institution installs Dokuwiki on a server, on Continue reading

Ok, I’m playing around with the name of this thing Tim and I are building. If you’re not up to speed on the Federated [something or other to do with education] Wiki, you might want to scroll below and catch up. Or just start with the screencast of the proof-of-concept. Keep in mind when looking Continue reading

Jared Stein has an excellent post up on a point that is near to my heart. People in the humanities who criticize flipped classrooms often don’t realize that their class is already flipped. The reason why they don’t get “flipped classrooms” is it does not solve a learning problem they have. They’ve been able to teach Continue reading