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User:JimTittsler
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 Jim Tittsler | |||
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| Website: | infrequent blog Starship Python LinkedIn profile | ||
| Employer: | CORE Education | ||
| Occupation: | computer weenie | ||
| Nationality: | United States of America | ||
| Country: | New Zealand, but usually Japan | ||
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I am part of the International Centre for Open Education at Otago Polytechnic. I am investigating ways to better make open educational resources (OERs) interoperable between systems, specifically between Connexions and WikiEducator. I am a developer of the eXe eLearning XHTML Editor project. I am promoting adoption of WikiEducator by teachers in New Zealand as a way to both (1) produce open educational resources that can be freely used across NZ schools and (2) strengthen networks of peers through collaboration in that development.
I'm experimenting with different ways to deploy WikiEducator content. I've prototyped a web service that allows exporting a collection of pages as an IMS Common Cartridge or IMS Content Package.
I am also experimenting with small tweaks to OpenOffice's MediaWiki export so that it can take advantage of the WikiEducator pedagogical templates.
On IRC I generally monitor the #wikieducator channel on irc.freenode.net. You can chat with other members of the WikiEducator community using the Web chat link in the community section of the left sidebar of each page.
I was lucky enough to attend the Heywire8 Think Tank which discussed a New Zealand Open Educational Resource initiative. I've made a few notes on the event.
About Me
I am one of the founders of the Tokyo Linux Users Group and a long time Python programmer (and one of the administrators of the Starship Python). In real life I am an active radio amateur (ham radio operator) (ZL2IA, 7J1AJH, AI8A). I also enjoy hiking and swimming.
I've lived in several places in the United States. I grew up in Columbus, Ohio, went to school in Cambridge, Massachusetts. I worked in southwestern Michigan, Los Angeles, and Silicon Valley. Moving to Tokyo, Japan in 1990 got me closer to many of the components and manufacturers that I was working with and I enjoyed living there for about 16 years. I've moved to Gisborne, New Zealand (map) for a couple of years to participate in the eXe project, and now the Open Education Resource movement and WikiEducator. It is quite a change from living in a sea of concrete to living along the beach.
I currently live in Makorori, a single beach-side street of houses about 10km north of the Gisborne, New Zealand business district.
- Photo of Okitu by Sandy Britain from his paraglider
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What's Up?
- jimt: @mwhudson: Firewire target mode to the rescue?
- jimt's status on Saturday, 31-Oct-09 04:27:06 UTC [?]
- jimt: Finally registered for Kiwi PyCon http://nz.pycon.org/
- jimt's status on Wednesday, 14-Oct-09 03:13:01 UTC [?]
- jimt: Wikipedia for your pocket? http://www.thewikireader.com/
- jimt's status on Tuesday, 13-Oct-09 19:50:56 UTC [?]
- jimt: Updated my notebook to test Karmic overnight. So far so good except for the LXDE panel having some oddities. #ubuntu
- jimt's status on Tuesday, 06-Oct-09 00:22:24 UTC [?]
- jimt: Fonera Fon 2.0 router is big news in the Japanese Linux magazines. OpenWRT, hardware serial ports, exploiting USB, tiny computers, etc.
- jimt's status on Friday, 28-Aug-09 02:38:25 UTC [?]
- jimt: @amrhassan have you tried IPython (and its sh profile in particular)?
- jimt's status on Wednesday, 05-Aug-09 09:23:37 UTC [?]
- jimt: @mwhudson Have you looked at the Sup mail client? Most of the gmail philosophy in a console app. http://sup.rubyforge.org/
- jimt's status on Thursday, 16-Jul-09 23:35:50 UTC [?]
- jimt: @zcat if you already have irc open, you might like Twirssi http://twirssi.com/
- jimt's status on Wednesday, 08-Jul-09 21:00:49 UTC [?]
- jimt: Google Chrome OS is coming for people that live on the web http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/introducing-google-chrome-os.html
- jimt's status on Wednesday, 08-Jul-09 07:55:11 UTC [?]
- jimt: @daw There is the classic Grail. http://grail.sourceforge.net/ !python
- jimt's status on Tuesday, 07-Jul-09 23:43:30 UTC [?]
- jimt: I'm amused I can't claim the obvious choices on http://www.facebook.com/username/ because my surname contains a prohibited word.
- jimt's status on Tuesday, 23-Jun-09 04:56:46 UTC [?]
- jimt: IT review team at Bahrain Polytechnic, where it is about 30C warmer than home.
- jimt's status on Monday, 08-Jun-09 07:29:12 UTC [?]
- jimt: The Chromium browser (installed easily on Jaunty thanks to a PPA deb) seems surprisingly usable.
- jimt's status on Sunday, 17-May-09 07:52:34 UTC [?]
- jimt: A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-mostly-wrong.html
- jimt's status on Tuesday, 12-May-09 10:16:29 UTC [?]
- jimt: Spent the weekend at the NZART Technology Convention in Hamilton hearing about everything from Kiwisat to precision UHF oscillators.
- jimt's status on Sunday, 12-Apr-09 09:52:56 UTC [?]
- jimt: @zcat its a "dent"
- jimt's status on Tuesday, 31-Mar-09 06:36:53 UTC [?]
- jimt: Live policy debate about Education and Technology in New Zealand http://www.thinktech.co.nz/ 19:30 NZDT 31Mar (tonight)
- jimt's status on Tuesday, 31-Mar-09 01:39:44 UTC [?]
- jimt: A quick intro to the Python 2.6 multiprocessing module: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-multiprocessing/index.html
- jimt's status on Thursday, 26-Mar-09 20:22:35 UTC [?]
- jimt: Investigating moving an Open Source project from a VPS to SourceForge... including SVN, wiki, Trac... and Pootle (last is a problem)
- jimt's status on Wednesday, 25-Mar-09 01:28:54 UTC [?]
- jimt: Being underwhelmed by 'eZ Publish', a CMS for people that don't want ease of use.
- jimt's status on Wednesday, 11-Feb-09 23:46:12 UTC [?]
- jimt: Sajjad Zaidi is trying to build a new community around http://www.xerxy.com/
- jimt's status on Sunday, 01-Feb-09 19:54:03 UTC [?]
- jimt: Parasite is kind of like "Firebug for Gtk apps" allowing you to explore a live app. http://chipx86.github.com/gtkparasite/
- jimt's status on Thursday, 22-Jan-09 19:25:38 UTC [?]
- jimt: Installing Ubuntu and OpenSolaris on a new (to me) ThinkPad T61
- jimt's status on Wednesday, 21-Jan-09 09:17:01 UTC [?]
- jimt: Thunderbird 3 Beta 1's IMAP handling does seem to be nicely improved! http://mozillamessaging.com/en-US/news/stories/2008-12-09-01
- jimt's status on Wednesday, 07-Jan-09 21:00:56 UTC [?]
- jimt: Fire in the Sky... New Year's Day fireworks in Gisborne, First City to See the Sun. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tC66on_6_d4
- jimt's status on Friday, 02-Jan-09 02:42:11 UTC [?]
- jimt: Watching the OMeta keynote at Smalltalk Solutions 2008 Christmas Special
- jimt's status on Wednesday, 24-Dec-08 21:48:57 UTC [?]
- jimt: Collaborative Spreadsheet Art http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpcgRlXe40k Now THAT'S what GoogleDocs was designed for.
- jimt's status on Wednesday, 17-Dec-08 23:39:19 UTC [?]
- jimt: Playing with Nitrogen, an Erlang web framework with continuations and jQuery AJAX http://nitrogen-erlang.tumblr.com/
- jimt's status on Tuesday, 09-Dec-08 07:27:57 UTC [?]
- jimt: Playing with Sup http://sup.rubyforge.org/ console-based, gmail-inspired search-tag-and-never-delete email client.
- jimt's status on Saturday, 06-Dec-08 20:55:00 UTC [?]
- jimt: Installing OpenSolaris 2008.11 (in a VirtualBox hosted on OS X)
- jimt's status on Friday, 05-Dec-08 19:43:55 UTC [?]
- jimt: With Pownce closing, I may try using identi.ca a bit more.
- jimt's status on Thursday, 04-Dec-08 03:19:20 UTC [?]
- jimt: Exploring http://cappuccino.org and Objective C... yet another attempt to use Javascript to build compelling desktop web apps.
- jimt's status on Thursday, 04-Sep-08 22:35:05 UTC [?]
- jimt: WikiEducator category activity monitor script... the BeautifulSoup library is a winner.
- jimt's status on Sunday, 17-Aug-08 04:01:52 UTC [?]
- jimt: All Blacks getting ready to beat the Kangaroos in Auckland.
- jimt's status on Saturday, 02-Aug-08 06:47:53 UTC [?]
- jimt: trying to find a reliable collocation provider in the UK or Canada...
- jimt's status on Wednesday, 30-Jul-08 01:34:28 UTC [?]
