Category Archives: Does This Need a New Category?

Stuff that doesn’t fit, and that I’m actively wondering about creating a new category for.

Plant News

[fr]Mes plantes vont bien![en]The plant-life in my appartment is doing pretty well, so I thought I’d give you some news. Happy news, to make up for the poor yucca, who is, it’s decided, going to be chopped up. If you … Continue reading

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The Unhappy Yucca

[fr]Le yucca de l’eclau n’est pas heureux.[en]There is a very unhappy Yucca at eclau. Here he is: As you can see, his lower leaves are drying out in huge quantities. By the time I remembered to take a photo, I … Continue reading

Posted in Does This Need a New Category?, Personal | Tagged Coworking, coworking space, eclau, plant, yucca | 4 Comments

Formateurs: et vos supports de cours?

[en]Trainers: do you make your course material freely available, or do you guard it safely for only those who followed your teaching?[fr]Au début de la formation MCMS/MSCL, nous avons décidé de rendre publics les supports de cours des intervenants. Cela … Continue reading

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Plantgasm: I Love Plants Too!

[fr]Mes plantes![en]A few months ago, I discovered Derek‘s new blog Plantgasm. Derek and I have met a few times, but to be honest, I had no idea (or had completely forgot) that he loved plants. I’ve spent a few hours … Continue reading

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Solar Impulse Test Flight Live From Payerne

[fr]A Payerne, pour voir voler l’avion Solar Impulse![en] So, here I am in Payerne, after waking up at an ungodly hour. A chance to see Solar Impulse on its last test flight before it heads out to Brussels later this … Continue reading

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Pollens Pédagogiques 2011

[en]As promised, here are the presentations I gave at Collège du Léman last Friday (Pollens Pédagogiques). Enjoy the reading as you follow the links![fr]A l’occasion de la journée Pollens Pédagogiques de l’IFP, j’ai donné un atelier sur les applications pédagiques … Continue reading

Posted in Conferences, Does This Need a New Category?, My work | Tagged école, Education, Enseignement, formation continue, médias sociaux, pollens pédagogiques, prezi | 1 Comment

Ken Robinson: Changing Education Paradigms (RSAnimate)

[fr]Excellente explication du pourquoi (et comment) le système éducatif d’aujourd’hui est… coincé. Héritage des Lumières dans un monde qui est aujourd’hui celui de la technologie et de la globalisation: dur, dur![en]This is the second RSAnimate video I’ve watched (the first … Continue reading

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Les réseaux sociaux ont-ils tué les blogs?

[en]Another one on the “are blogs dead?” meme. Nope, they’re not. Surprise![fr]Réponse courte: non Réponse plus longue: pas plus que les réseaux sociaux ont tué l’e-mail, et pas plus qu’internet a tué la télé (quoique…). Quand un nouveau média débarque, … Continue reading

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Another Video: Relevance and Curation of the Real-Time Web

[fr]Une autre vidéo de moi en train d’essayer désespérément de dire quelque chose d’intelligent en réponse à des questions perplexantes, avec un cerveau grillé.[en]Also last December, I was interviewed by Cathy Brooks about relevance and curation of the real-time stream. … Continue reading

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What Proportion of Ideas Do I Carry Out?

[fr]Moi, en train d’essayer péniblement d’évaluer quelle proportion de mes idées je réalise.[en]That is the question that was put to me by Siegfried at the TEDx conference in Geneva last December. So here I am, struggling to answer. Similar Posts: … Continue reading

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