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I'm back from "Design for Drupal v 2.0" at MIT.  Wonderful conference, visited by such luminaries as Jeff Robbins (Lullabot), Ben Finklea (Volacci), and an ASTOUNDINGLY fun keynote by Jared Spool,  "What Makes a Design Seem Intuitive?" Read more »

I just wanted to shout out that the Buckminster Fuller Institute uses Drupal, and you can read the entire Operations Manual for Spaceship Earth there: http://www.bfi.org/about-bucky/resources/books/operating-manual-spaceship-earth

The second chapter, "Origins of Specialization" uses the history of pirates to explain how specialization in education is a form of discreet, global slavery. Comments welcome!

-Bram

At DrupalCon SF, a crew of ghetto kids (and their mentors) presented about how teenagers have all the right stuff (with some help) to create and support Drupal sites for schools and community based organizations. Read more »

I just returned from EduCon 2.2 in Philadelphia - http://educon22.wikispaces.com/ - it was a profound wonderful experience. Here are three of my takeaways (which were the unique product of my eyes/ears/brain and conversations I had - you won't find them in the conference notes): Read more »

Your classroom is the center of your solar system,  but there are "learning circles" in various orbits that can provide partners and new ideas.  There are many more "new ideas" out there than anyone could possibly master, but a community you belong can be a better filter than Google. Read more »

This may be obvious, but I'll say it anyway.

I just looked through the "Special Report" of the January issue of eSchoolNews, and even though I am a proponent of technology integration, I felt disgust at the industrial pandering and begged questions. Example: Read more »

Thinking about my work with schools in transition, I keep coming back to the keynote Dries gave at Drupalcon DC. The idea that new technologies enable new ways of working that make bureaucracy obsolete is an old story in the software world, but public schools are just getting wind of it. Read more »