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1st Philippine Open Education forum
The mini-conference aims to inquire upon the feasibility and development of private initiatives to contribute in the Philippine educational or learning system, as alternative else collaborating actors in this matter.
— Philippine Commons
23 April 2008
830-900 :: Registration
900-915 :: Invocation
915-1000 :: Introduction to Open Education
Speaker/org: Creative Commons Philippines
Atty. Jaime “Jimmy” Soriano
1000-1015 Q&A
1015-1030 :: Break
1030-1115 :: […]
Can you tell this dancer to change direction?
Does the image below rotate clockwise or counter-clockwise? It depends whether you are using the left-side or the right-side of your brain. What’s cool is you can tell your brain to change the dancer’s rotation and it will.
Found via Kaye’s blog
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Path to the dark side
[via Matterr]
If I may add, “Java leads to suffering”.
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Bayanihan Books: Together, we will solve our textbooks problems
Last December I wrote an essay on how to solve the quality and shortage problems in public textbooks as a starting point for a project. After a number of suggestions from friends, we decided to call the project “Bayanihan Books”. “Bayanihan” is originally a Filipino tradition wherein neighbors would help a family relocate by […]
Arellano University launches Creative Commons in the Philippines
The Arellano University School of Law have launched (and I could say with a bang!) last January 14 the Philippine version of the Creative Commons license.
So why should there be a Philippine version? The law varies from country to country and it is important that we use a Creative Commons license adopted to our law […]
What gives elite athletes the edge
“Lance Armstrong was an exceptional one-day athlete who became an endurance champion after the removal of one testicle.”
— Endocrinologist Craig Atwood via NewScientist, July 2007
I wonder if other athletes are pondering of doing the same thing.
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Why working at home is bad for you
Your neighbor thinks you are a bum.
Your landlord becomes worried. One day, our landlord asked my wife if I already have a job. She’s most likely worried about the rent.
Your relatives think you’re a call-center agent. Every time my wife tells them I am asleep because I was working ’till 5 am, […]
Microsoft is also into piracy?
Southeastern College, based in Pasay City, Philippines is suing Microsoft and (its local arm) for 100 million pesos ($2.4 million) for piracy of a locally developed manual on how to use Microsoft Office.
If there is one thing that Microsoft should be happy about is that this proves we believe in intellectual property rights.
Maybe, Microsoft […]
How to solve our textbook problems and give every Filipino a better education
Update:This post has been moved to the Bayanihan Books Project website. If you want to leave a comment, please follow this link.
Every start of the school year, our adviser hands out textbooks for the entire class. She would call our names one by one and instruct us to pick a number of books from a […]
The FedEx arrow
Can you see the arrow between ‘E’ and ‘x’? Now that you see it, I bet you would always notice it every time you see a FedEx truck. The arrow makes sense as a symbol for a delivery company that is always on the go. However, it is pointing away from its destination […]
