Comments for Damo's World

Comment on Arrow key scroll in Mac Excel by Carolina

Carolina — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 21:28:43 +0000

Thanks so much for sharing! I do appreciate it a whole lot!!

Comment on Arrow key scroll in Mac Excel by damoclarky

damoclarky — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 00:08:00 +0000

G’day Ian,

After downloading it, go to your Downloads folder and double click on the file. This will expand the zip file contents into another folder of the same name. The application is inside. Then you can double click on the application.

Good luck.

Damien.

Comment on Arrow key scroll in Mac Excel by Ian Graham

Ian Graham — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 21:52:01 +0000

Thanks for the help. I downloaded your app, but I don’t know how to “unzip it” on my Mac and the computer won’t open it (run it) as it is. Can you help me?

Thanks again,

Ian

Comment on Arrow key scroll in Mac Excel by Charlie Morris

Charlie Morris — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 04:03:23 +0000

Awesome. Finally a good explanation. I’m new to the Mac world. Nice job

Comment on McLuhan’s Tetrad by David Jones

David Jones — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 23:42:48 +0000

Good to see you blogging again Damo. Especially on a topic like this, thinking about the implications of technologies is a good place to be. Have come across this article which uses the tetrad to look at analytics. It offers a couple of examples to explain the four effects. I found them a good way to understand.

Comment on Arrow key scroll in Mac Excel by damoclarky

damoclarky — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 05:38:17 +0000

Glad you found it useful Melissa.

Regards,
Damien.

Comment on Arrow key scroll in Mac Excel by Melissa

Melissa — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 17:54:33 +0000

Great tool! Thanks for sharing!

Comment on Week 10: OERs – The dream by Jonathan

Jonathan — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 23:26:14 +0000

Hi Damien,

Interesting post. You are right in that we will often move on from a project (or initiative) too quickly, rather than building something that will last (and continue growing) over time. Perhaps this is human nature or maybe there is just so much information around that we are constantly distracted (and this is definitely a topic that would require further research). With information being so easily accessible this could be why other learners will not collaborate with us long-term (as there are so many other options available for them to switch to).

You summed up the nature of our society quite well. Unlike other cultures that do not worry about copyright restrictions ours is definitely one of control. I am certain things will change with time as they are already changing. For instance, in the Canadian context, sharing of information in the workplace between employees is now of greater importance and promoted – keeping your knowledge and expertise to yourself is not looked on fondly.

The resources available to learners have definitely grown and are meeting a demand of certain groups of learners (the ones who are aware of such resources).

Thank you for sharing your ideas.

Jonathan

Comment on Week 10: OERs – The dream by learn231

learn231 — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 15:10:25 +0000

This is a fantastic examination of the forces that might limit or enhance the possibility that OER’s become mainstream.

Even in K12 education the natural [according to Freud] tendency for organisms to compete comes into play…I have seen it first hand and it most definitely does get in the way of the creation and sharing of content. However….the notion of reciprocal altruism is also obvious in many things that teachers do.

The final quote you provided says it all…we probably need to work a little harder to develop, encourage, sustain the cooperative strategies required to free the content we need.

Thanks for the great synopisis.

Stu

Comment on Week 10: OERs – The dream by Vincent Jansen

Vincent Jansen — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 16:13:38 +0000

Damien,
An interesting article.. it would seem to me that there is indeed greater inherent value in the data collected from users that search for and utilize OER than perhaps the OER itself. Data capturing and analytics provide more value on marketing to man companies and that this residual use of data is a primary commodity that is untapped. Since more companies emulate the existence of free to capture user attention in order to attract them to the fee-based materials. Certainly this is a model of greater emphasis today, but the value is in the connection and user data captured as well. As a frequent visitor to sites, free journals and subscriptions and online purchases of fee-based content, there is an increase in the frequency of followup.

I also think you are correct that in order to sustain OER there need sot be greater collaboration and sharing of mutual derived content. This is away forward but will come in waves.

Vince