Posts from ‘April, 2007’

Flight of the [Arizona] Bumblebee

Bumblebee posted 3 Sep ‘06, 6.10pm MDT PST on flickr

In the real life can be strange too department…
We’ve recently been helping my mother-in-law clean up her cluttered yard and garage. She offered to let us take about 3/4 of a cord of firewood she had purchased for her small outdoor fireplace, and we can [...]

The Flat Classroom Horizon Project

Doh!
Sound of blog remorse!
In writing about the CNI Horizon Project presentation, I was remiss in leaving out one of the coolest discoveries — that Vicki Davis (coolcatteacher in georgia) and 4 other secondary school teachers in Austria, Bangladesh, China, and Australia are doing another fabulous Flat Classroom project — and this one they [...]

Twitter Cycle

Have you heard just enough plaff about twitter the 2007 web love child? I have experienced and seen enough others experience the twitter cycle:

“That is the stupidest thing I have ever heard of… who in their right mind would be doing that?”
“Okay… if Xxxxxx and Yyyyyyy think this is cool, I will give it a [...]

Horizon Report Presented at CNI

Yesterday was a eventful day at the CNI Spring Task Force Meeting. My travel arrangements for this conference were pretty tricky — I got in my truck and drove 20 miles downtown to Phoenix. No lost luggage.
This was my first ever attendance at a CNI conference; a different flavor of colleagues, so I got to [...]

I Think He’s Turning (Japanese, Chinese?)

Found via an inbound ping:

It looks like Stephen Downes is writing in new new tongues – http://www.edu2do.com/oldaily

(CNI): Using Wikipedia to Meet Information Searchers at Their Point of Need

Trying my hand at conference blogging, here at the CNI Spring Task Force Meeting in Phoenix (Hey, my flight here was a 20 minute drive from home). Can I blog faster tan Bryan Alexander? Heck no.
This first session of the breakouts is from Ann Lally head of digital Initiatives at University of Washington, and Carolyn [...]

TLA, Ergo Sum

In education, and technology, but no different from most other fields, we sure can get mired in definitions. It seems… that the mere fact of identifying something with a TLA (Three Letter Acronym), that it exists.
Like last Decemberm when I got invited to be on the planning committee for the EDUCAUSE ELI Focus Session on [...]

NMC Two Point Oh

Hey, I just finished my 2006 summer project! When I joined NMC, I projected having a public version of a new web site ready by September.
I lied. Or grossly underestimated. Or lied.
But this morning we flipped the switch and lit up the tree. I could blog about all details of this process (and should [...]

I Was Doing Ruby in the Mid 1990s

I really do not want to learn a new web programming language. In my first round, through the late 1990s, it was perl, than I made the jump to doing my web stuff in PHP. Now of course, the rage and sexy code is done in Ruby — any slick new web site that moves [...]

Blog Years

Quickly. Little time to blog.
A year ago today was my first day on the job at NMC, just a year gone by and so many things have happened. It reminds me of the old Lorne Green A,lpo commercials where hs says something like:
Hi. I’m Lorne Greene. And this is my pal, CogDog. You know, CogDog [...]