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DebugCSS Bookmarklet for easily fixing CSS/HTML.
By Joseph Lien 31 March 2017 @ 9:21amimbrianj.github.io - Here's a neat tool I found recently that is really helpful when you are working with CSS and HTML. It's a bookmarklet you can just drag to your browser's bookmark toolbar. Click it, and it will show several messages of note that will help you write... -
Study reveals scale of antisemitism online (tldr; no it doesn't)
By Jon Dron 29 March 2017 @ 12:02pm Comments (1)www.alphr.com - Researchers analyzing millions of posts across an assortment of popular social media assert that 63% of antisemitic posts were to be found on Twitter. The writers suggest: "The larger proportion of such hate speech found on Twitter could be because... -
Every attempt to manage academia makes it worse
By Jon Dron 22 March 2017 @ 12:09pmsvpow.com - Excellent post from Mike Taylor on the inevitable consequences of the use of incentives to shape a system (in this case, an educational system). As Mike notes, the problem is well-known and well understood, yet otherwise intelligent people... -
Babies in the learning-style bathwater
By Jon Dron 14 March 2017 @ 1:00pm Comments (4)www.theguardian.com - A recent Guardian article reports on a letter sent to the paper by 30 eminent academics from neuroscience, education, and psychology disciplines, voicing concerns about the absurd popularity of learning styles among teachers. They are, of course,... -
Free download of 'Digital Habitats'!
By Jon Dron 13 February 2017 @ 6:50pm Comments (1)technologyforcommunities.com - Wenger, White, & Smith's excellent "Digital Habitats: stewarding technology for communities" is now available for free, in major ebook formats! I really like this book: though it is a bit of a patchwork in places, longer than it needs to be,... -
Handful of “highly toxic” Wikipedia editors cause 9% of abuse on the site | Ars Technica
By Jon Dron 13 February 2017 @ 12:32pm Comments (2)Posted to group: COMP 650: Social Computingarstechnica.com - Reporting on a very interesting study (linked from the article) on aggressive comments on Wikipedia pages, revealing that less than half of all personal attacks on the site are from anonymous users. Although it is true (as conventional wisdom... -
Learning from mistakes - A GitLab story
By Viorel Tabara 1 February 2017 @ 9:36pmPosted to group: Open Source Softwarehttps://goo.gl/yeDsFl - An excellent lessons learned material for any syadmin, but especially for those with a taste for PostgreSQL, that came into my inbox from CommandPrompt. -
Consider joining the SoTL Special Interest Group (SIG)
By Sandra Law 1 February 2017 @ 11:34amPosted to group: Teaching and Learning at Athabascasotlcanada.stlhe.ca - SoTL is a special Intereset Group (SIG) of the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. This SIG can be found at https://www.stlhe.ca/special-interest-groups/scholarship-of-teaching-and-learning-canada/. The core goal of the SoTL is to... -
Breathing Room
By Caitlyn Bourassa 31 January 2017 @ 3:30pmhttp://breathingroom.me - Many apps have started to become available to help people manage their mental health. There is a new self help app that was created in Calgary, Alberta by the Canadian Institute of Natural and Integrative Medicine called the Breathing... -
Breathing Room
By Caitlyn Bourassa 31 January 2017 @ 3:30pmhttp://breathingroom.me - Many apps have started to become available to help people manage their mental health. There is a new self help app that was created in Calgary, Alberta by the Canadian Institute of Natural and Integrative Medicine called the Breathing...
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I invite all readers of The Landing, especially those who view themselves as progressives, to read Change Alberta and comment on topics that we discuss. Change Alberta played an important role in the provincial elections of 2012 and 2015 and since the latter election has attempted to counter the pervasive propaganda in favour of returning to a past where Alberta governments were puppets of big business and opponents of universal services and special help for the disadvantaged.
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Edex courses about promotion of Microsoft tools as UI. Re: Java/JavaScipt/C++.. Why the students should use tools instead of writing own code??
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Anonymous June 30, 2017 - 7:20pm