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The Perfect Hotel Room

By alex | Published: 3/18/2013
I‘ve spent enough time in hotel rooms over the last few years that I have a pretty good idea of what the ideal room would be like. My ideal is probably different from many others, but I suspect it isn’t that different. In order of importance: Clean: I mean really clean. I’ve been in too […]
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Undo It Yourself (U.i.Y.)

By alex | Published: 3/15/2013
There is a TV show called (in the US) Junkyard Wars. The premise of the show is simple enough: two teams meet in a junkyard and are assigned to build something: a trebuchet, a crane, or some other device. I think we can assume that the collection of stuff is, let us say, “semi-random.” I […]
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The Badges of Oz

By alex | Published: 3/15/2013
Almost a year ago I wrote a post about being a “skeptical evangelist” when it comes to the uses of badges in learning. This was spurred, in large part, by a workshop run by Mitch Resnick at DML2012 that was critical of the focus on badges. This year Resnick was back, as part of a […]
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Seminar WordPress Stack

By alex | Published: 1/7/2013
In setting up another CommentPress site for teaching this semester, I realized that I’ve evolved a set of plugins I like to use each semester, and it might be helpful to let others know about them. I’ll post later about how I use these. There are lots of other things I would like to try, […]
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