Buried Bones (Archive) for January, 2006
Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this January 31st, 2006 11:59 pm
flickr foto
Phone Dudeavailable on flickr
On of 250 images that popped in my slide show
The closing sessions of the EDUCAUSE ELI conference was the New Media Consortium’s release of the 2006 Horizon Report on Emerging Technologies.
This was the second year I was on the advisory board, and this year we notched it up quite [...]
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Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this January 31st, 2006 11:07 pm
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Yes! This is IT!available on my flickr
Brian and Alan celebrate finding the mecca of fish tacos. Photo credit and good company from Bryan Alexander
Ultimate, penultimate, ultra-ultimate… we found the holy grail at Blue Water Seafood in San Diego. Brian and I celebrated the fruits of our presentation labor here with fabulously fresh swordfish and [...]
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Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this January 31st, 2006 11:05 am
Ouch, trying to cover a full day’s EDUCAUSE ELI activity in one blog and I made a glaring omission. Steve and his students Liz and Dean did a 5 star presentation on using wikis to empower student learning — I think EDUCAUSE needs to encourage much, much more of having students participate or lead in [...]
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Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this January 31st, 2006 2:44 am
I’ve more or less resigned myself that I have little interest in doing intensive (or any) blog note-taking at conferences. It’s easy to get caught up in the idea of recording it for yourself and others, but it ends up feeling a bit like being one of the transcribing monks (the one with bad fingers).
Besides, [...]
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Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this January 30th, 2006 12:33 pm
TACO HOUSE!
Originally uploaded by larowebr.
Brian and I had a filled room for our session on Beyond Blogs. It was a blast and we were honored to have a great audience, many of them bloggers we’ve only had virtual connections to… but since I am trying to listen [...]
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Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this January 30th, 2006 12:06 pm
Engage Me or Enrage Me: Education Today’s Digital Native Learners
Marc Prensky
Games2Train
[ed: I heard Prensky's message several years ago-- the message is good, but not all that different. He has a strong message, does it with passion, shows on the screen a lot of "bumper sticker" statements. We're almost 45 minutes in, maybe 50 slides, and... [...]
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Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this January 30th, 2006 12:42 am
Obligatory Conference Bag Shot
Originally uploaded by cogdogblog.
Sunny San Diego, fresh ocean breeze, how much better can it get?
I slipped into town this afternoon for the EDUCAUSE ELI Annual conference, picked up the bag, and performed a past ritual.
But bags aside, it’s off to a galactic start. I [...]
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Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this January 27th, 2006 3:18 pm
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!
Originally uploaded by Looking For Fish Tacos At ELI 2006.
The word has sneaked out a bit earlier than Brian and I had planned on the flickr-housed presentation we are doing Monday at the EDUCAUSE ELI meeting in San Diego.
Beyond the Blog: ready For Prime [...]
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Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this January 26th, 2006 3:45 pm
It’s been a while since I’ve had to waste time dealing with comment spammers, thanks to Dr Dave and Spam Karma 2 plugin for WordPress.
However, on oneof my other WP blogs today, the number of spam roaches squeaking under SK2 has been disturnbing. Some tricks ntoed are:
(1) They are embedding only one URL, and usually [...]
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Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this January 25th, 2006 9:32 pm
It’s my aim for our MCLI events to have as much content as possible be a part of our web sites, as well asfor those looking back at it, for those who were not in attendance. Even with speed-haste audio/video editing (not aided by a delay in getting source video), it took a while to [...]
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