Race Day

Tomorrow is race day for the halfmarathon man. Good luck, halfmarathon man. Our wholehearted support is behind you.

OPML Editor Makes A Surpisingly Fun Writing Tool

As a writing tool, the OPML editor can actually be quite liberating. You don't have to use it to make traditional outlines. You can use it to produce playful and unexpected writing.

Start out writing anything at all in one node, then use bits and pieces of that node to seed other nodes. Then, add randomly to these seed nodes. Further, you can even rearrange the nodes and bits and pieces of language in them.

Do it all at light speed. See what develops.

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Firefox, Updated

I just updated my Firefox browser to the latest version ( 1.5.0.4 ). It seems faster to me.

Infographic: Informal Learning

Like the title says, here's an infographic that depicts modes of informal learning.

The Next Big Thing

Personal Learning Environments will be the next big thing in education.

Here is a link to a blog about personal learning environments.

A good example of a PLE tool is PLEX.

But where's the OPML?

I can see iJot performing many of the same functions when it matures.