Después de mucho trabajo y con mucha ayuda de Alejandro (el ingeniero) y algunos estudiantes del colegio, especialmente Camilo Garzón, salió al aire una primera versión del nuevo portal web del Gimnasio La Montaña. La curva de aprendizaje para usar Drupal es bastante empinada y me ha tomado tiempo entender cómo funciona, pero estoy muy contento con las posibilidades de la plataforma.
My dad's blog, www.reflexionesdsi.org, broke today. It has all updates and was fine yesterday. I had to completely reinstall. Thankfully fue database was intact. Dunno what happened. -Posted from iPhone via Wordpress app.
Through Stephen Downe's olDaily I got interested in an article about educational uses of peer to peer file transfer.BitTorrent: An Educational Autopsy of the Hydra by bavtuesdays. It has a good explanation of what bit-torrents is and how it works, as well as an explanation of the debates around it. I also got directed to check out a project at Harvard School of Engineering...
So, I just dowloaded the latest release (today) of iPhone Dev Team's pwnage tool for mac. It was released a few hours ago. My iTunes acted up even before tryig to pwn the phone, so I had to reinstall it and do a full restore of the phone. Then I went throught the tool and my phone is unlocked 2.0 now (1st gen. iPhone). I am getting my stuff back via sync on iTunes and will reinstall apps as soon as that is done. You can get the tool via Pirate Bay torrents. I am seeding now help a bit. Get the one with the file called PwnageTool_2.0.zip, 19.7 MB. GL, and thanks iPhone dev team!
We'd had some trouble installing Knowledge Forum on the Windows 2003 r2 server at school. Granted, the school engineer and me aren't the best qualified to do it (I've never managed a server), but we couldn't manage yesterday. Today, Alejandro, one of our contract programmers (who does know about Windows servers and pretty much administers the one at school) managed pretty quickly. Even enhanced mode worked well. I haven't been able to run lite mode, but that's another problem. I can't even run it from the KF site!
Last night I messed up my iPhone. Playing around with SSH I tried to change the root password via passwd, disregarding something I'd read and was in the back of my mind. Nothing really happened, but this morning Springoard just kep restarting itself and the phone was pretty much useless. I decided I would restore from a 1.1.4 image and jailbraik-unlock again if I had to.
As some of my readers may know, I recently started a new job as educational technology director at Gimnasio La Montaña, a private school in Bogotá. One of the innovations we are going to start next year is the use of Knowledge Forum for two Knowledge Building (KB) projects (one Social Studies, one Science), in some areas (Religion, Philosophy, Language Arts...) and in teacher lesson study.
I've been reading about the nice images people have created with Wordle, and finally, after seeing some on Jay Cross' blog, I decided to head over and see what the fuzz was about.
A través del blog de Diego (ya no sé cómo se llama, creo que educoblog) me encontré uno de esos tests-quizzes que uno hace como medio por diversión... aquí está el resultado. Algunos de las preguntas me confundieron y no sabía cuál opción de respuesta escoger... pero bueno... divertido hacerlo.
I starting reading Henry Jenkin's blog a while back and he refers to very interesting things. In one of his latest posts he recommended a novel by Cory Doctorow, Little Brother, and I picked it up on the author's site, ready for my iPhone with a CC license. I also ordered a print copy from Amazon.
I have to change my approach to blogging. This isn't working anymore. Last post was end of April. I keep trying to write too long... too elaborate for the kind of time I have available for blogging. I will change the approach. I will post short mostly... comments on things I see or read, but won't try to elaborate too much. Sometimes I will.
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