The launch of the new Mozilla WebMaker means we’ll be making changes to the current suite of Webmaker tools: XRayGoggles, Mozilla Thimble, AppMaker, and Popcorn Maker. These tools have been critical to so many of our mentors around the world, and we’re devoted to continuing their legacy through our new educational resources. And as always, we’ll work with the community to ensure this evolution is as smooth as possible. (cf Mozilla Drumbeat)

To turn docs into apps, Coda had to rethink productivity from scratch. (CollaborationWare) Coda does, however, have a clear vision of the sort of people it wants to please. When the service formally announced itself a year ago, Mehrotra wrote a blog post that referenced one user’s description of the service as “Minecraft for docs.” Like the block-building game phenom, Coda is less about what it does right out of the box than what people can build atop it; it’s a tapestry for ambitious creativity. The company calls its users “makers.” (more)

Michael Simmons: Forget The 10,000-Hour Rule (TenKHours); Edison, Bezos, & Zuckerberg Follow The 10,000-Experiment Rule. Deliberate experimentation is more important than deliberate practice in a rapidly changing world. (more)

Elaine Ou on Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre. Improv is action without censorship. (more)

Patrick O'Shaughnessy on Improvisation. The topic of this post is an obscure book called “Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre” which was recommended to me twice in a day by 1) a standup & comedy writer (my sister) and 2) a coder turned philosopher (Kevin Simler). (more)

James Clear: Book Summary: Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre by Keith Johnstone. The Book in Three Sentences. Many of our behaviors are driven by our desire to achieve a particular level of status relative to those around us. People are continually raising and lowering their status in conversation through body language and words. Say yes to more and stop blocking the opportunities that come your way. (more)

Whenever you spend some time on a Project, you should write a note about that "session". It can include (more)

Founder of Home Fair, economist. http://www.arnoldkling.com/ (more)

Megan McArdle (born January 29, 1973) is an opinion columnist and blogger based in Washington, D.C. She writes mostly about economics, finance and government policy from a libertarian perspective. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megan_McArdle

Ross Gregory Douthat (/ˈdaʊθət/[1]) (born 1979) is an American conservative political analyst, blogger and author and New York Times columnist. He was a senior editor of The Atlantic. He has written on a variety of conservative topics, including the state of Christianity in America and "sustainable decadence" in contemporary society. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Douthat

Christian Religion - Monotheism

aka Two-Way Links

Maggie Appleton: A Short History of Bi-Directional Links. (more)

A notation for linking to pages on other wiki servers. Here's an example: (more)

Tim Berners-Lee: https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI (ok that's URI) (more)

Remove Disqus BlogComments From my Wikilog - the huge amount of crap-webad-space wasn't worth the low amount of engagement. (more)

cumulative net total of historical government Budget Deficit-s (and surpluses) (more)

US National Debt

Ewan McIntosh thinks Design Thinking is better than PBL as a learning process. (more)

Understanding by Design, or UbD, is a tool utilized for educational planning focused on "teaching for understanding" advocated by Jay McTighe and Grant Wiggins in their Understanding by Design (1998), published by the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.[1][2] The emphasis of Ub D is on "backward design" (Working Backwards), the practice of looking at the outcomes in order to design Curriculum units, performance assessments, and classroom instruction. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Understanding_by_Design (more)