Posts from ‘October, 2008’

I’m not quite ready to stake any big bets on it, but my ed tech radar is feeling like we are getting more blips about open education / open content / open learning… There is the grand experiment of Siemens and Downes on a Massively Open Online Course (acronym alert! MOOC) with their now running [...]

Hey, these guys do their shtick in Japan! Wait, they are different! No, the same? Oh well, it’s a great ad in any language.

However, no sign of Bill and Jerry and the butt scrunch thing. Whew.

In person, in reading, I’ve long been enamored ofBarbara Ganley’s concept of “slow blogging” — rather than dashing off quarter-baked, unstructured stream of consciousness blogging, she suggests taking time to reflect, to actually re-read and revise in the blogging process. Barbara’s own lyrical writings, flowing like one of her tranquil Vermont creeks through red [...]

Kids from Hiroshima by cogdogblog posted 1 Oct ‘08, 10.04am MDT PST on flickr
This cute group if school kids today asked me to help them practice their English while I was visiting Kinkakuji Temple in Kyoto.
It went something like…
"Excuse me! Excuse me" (little voices rang out).
"Hello, My name is Miko" said one reading [...]