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Tony Hirst on Docker and Jupyter

Videos

Conversation With Tony Hirst Oct 31, 2018 video

We covered server virtualization with an in-depth look at using Docker to launch full web applications in just a few moments, and then looked at embedded programs in Jupyter notebooks, tying it all together with a discussion of how these might be used in the future.

URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjGyVXI2zFA

Resources

What is Docker? Docker containers explained
Serdar Yegulalp, InfoWorld, 2018/10/31

For many years now, the leading way to isolate and organize applications and their dependencies has been to place each application in its own virtual machine. But virtual machines are bulky. Enter Docker containers. Containers make it possible to isolate applications into small, lightweight execution environments that share the operating system kernel.

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Docker Hub
Docker, 2018/10/31

Docker Hub is the world’s largest public repository of container images with an array of content sources including container community developers, open source projects and independent software vendors (ISV) building and distributing their code in containers.

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Posts

E-Learning 3.0 – Conversation With Shelly Blake-Plock
Frank, Doin’ Stuff,

“Technology is easy, Culture is a bitch” Col. Bob Reddy DARPA Program Manager. From my distant past efforts in implementing new technologies into training, education products, Bob’s words echoed into the present as I reflected on Stephen’s and Shelly’s conversation. In the year plus that I have interacted with Shelly with his IEEE LTSC xAPI … Continue reading "E-Learning 3.0 – Conversation with Shelly Blake-Plock"

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#El30 Week 2 Clouds And Jupyter
x28, EL30 – x28's new Blog,

I first encountered the idea of a cloud when we drew pictures of our computer networks. Now the week's synopsis talks about redefining what we mean by concepts such as ‘textbooks’. I have long been fascinated by the idea of such interactive resources.
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Week 0.5 – Elearning 3.0
Brainstorm in Progress, 2018/10/31

I just finished watching Stephen Downes’ talk on Web3 technologies and their implications for learning. I am very interested in what Stephen had to say about technologies being used to build consensus and decision making. I think a shared, distributed … Continue reading →

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Connected Learning By Playing With Rss, Blog Feeds, Aggregators And Harvesters
Learning with Moocs, 2018/10/31

I created this site on Reclaim Hosting, the hosting service for ‘educators and institutions’ (and, I guess, for learners in general) co-founded by Jim Groom. Jim previously gave the world the word Edupunk and he facilitated the digital storytelling course ds106. Learning with Moocs is all about connected learning and more specifically about a number […]

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What Is Learning Design, Anyway?
Gerald Ardito, Inventing Learning, 2018/10/31

For the past couple of weeks, I have been engaged in a cMOOC with Stephen Downes, ELearning 3.0. Of course, engagement is a tricky thing. I fully intended to be on top of everything, every day, but I have had to dip in and out. This afternoon, I read through Stephen’s description of designing the […]

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Taking A Course By Following A Course
Gerald Ardito, Inventing Learning, 2018/10/31

My brain isn’t very happy with the paradigm shift (yet), but I am taking Stephen Downes’s cMOOC E Learning 3.0 by following it in my feed reader (Feedspot). When I say my brain isn’t very happy I mean that the part of my brain that is used to a course having one specific path and […]

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Tasks

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