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Here in the Phoenix area, the housing industry is booming with the roll out of these new “master planned communities”. Physically, these communities are surrounded by high walls and require passing through a security gate to enter, and individual back yards are each walled off.
So it looks like Apple Digital Campus Exchange is extending [...]

Flying home from San Diego to Phoenix after my piece in San Diego State University workshops this week, two, maybe three not so brilliant ideas floated in my head.
Perhaps the Wrong Tactic On Intro Blog Workshops
In the morning of the first day’s sessions we had all participants create new weblogs at Blogger. It went well, [...]

Webquest Overview (Bernie Dodge)
The father of WebQuests….
What is a WebQuest?
A structured inquiry-based activity where the most of all information students use comes from the web. Ideally it is wrapped around a do-able, authenitc task.
Life and Work are getting more complex, not less

Making sense of the new
taking a stand on complex issues
solving problems creatively
expressing oneself creatively [...]

I’m at day two for an invited participation in an “Emerging Trends Workshop” for some 50 plus educators at San Diego State University. I was invited by the “father” of WebQuests Bernie Dodge, who emailed a few weeks ago, “Can CogDogBlog Come and Play in San Diego”? Bernie is one of the pioneers in Educational [...]

Did you catch the obits?
Teemu Leinonen, one of the members of the FLOSSE Posse has bravely cast out the notice in “Learning objects - Is the King naked?”. He argues that the IEEE definitions of “any entity, digital or non digital hat may be used for learning, education or teaching” is broad enough to mean [...]

a.k.a “What to do in the boarding area when there is no free wireless…”
As a public service, I am here to expose some of the great puzzles of the species humanus nomadus moderni.
(1) Coffee. Is Starbucks truly as superior to say the brew bubbling at Cinnabun, Nathans, or Burger King? When I say “truly superior” [...]

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Semi-Serious Burgeravailable on my flickr

This is art- a 10oz burger from “Cheeburger Cheeburger” on Sanibel Island- only half the size you need to put away to get your photo on the wall (I was in no mood [...]

This dog will be going to low blog mode for the next week or so. First up is some time off to visit Mom in Florida. On May 23-24 I get to be a guest presenter at a faculty workshop at San Diego State University, invited by Bernie Dodge, the genius creator of WebQuests and [...]

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Hybrid Courses Matrixavailable on my flickr

Our Ocotillo Hybrid Courses Action Group chair Shelly Rodrigo went wildly over the top with a “Matrix” theme for her demo on the group’s efforts this year… with red pills and [...]

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We Made The Marqueeavailable on my flickr

South Mountain Community College rolled out the big red carpet as host for our Ocotillo Retreat including getting the event on the electronic marquee.

I’m too tired to blog much, but [...]