This all started with looking at the WordPress site presentation deck Brian Lamb used for a talk last week at Conventry University. There’s a lot more to Brian’s talks than this, but few people title them as well as Ed Tech Isn’t Dead, It Just Smells Funny nor finds the wackiest GIFs. But I’m not […]
This is the textbook-ish way the process of computer programming is described: Identify the Problem Design a Solution Write the Program Check the Solution Why would anyone think programming is hard? Four easy steps! I cannot remember one programming task I have done in 20+ years that I would map out like that as my […]
I’ve been fortunate/privileged/lucky/happy in my work to have that room to follow my curiosity. I might say that a lot of my activity seems to have unstated goals, in determinate objectives, and often outcomeless outcomes. That I dig. Okay. In my wandering work for the Creative Commons project, I skyped a few weeks ago with […]
I’m hardly the first person to ponder ways to use the software collaboration site GitHub in a context outside of software development. There’s been a series of Chronicle of Higher Education pieces on “forking the syllabus”. There is Gitbook as a front end for using the approach for writing books. While I have used GitHub […]
Ugh I am not going to start doing tl;dr stuff, but my intros seem to be long. I am going to invite you to try some simple github edits to a public site, come fork with me, ok? I’ve had a GitHub account since 2010 (my guess was later, but found that on my profile). […]
Bear with me as I step with trepidation into philosophical murk with this question: If one accumulates a great deal of small quantifiable things, does it necessarily, by accumulation, equate to something larger, more complex? Huh? Get to the tl;dr dude! No way. I am never that organized. I might not even be sure what […]
So many valuable things happened (and are happening) out of last week’s Indie Ed-Tech gathering in Davidson, and one of the biggest payoffs was the session Kin Lane, the API Evangelist, evangelized for us, Indie EdTech and The Personal API. The acronym helps it none, but the way Kin explained an API as something that […]
This is one of those ideas that came to me as I was watering my garden. Endorsements are a possible positive feature of a credential/badge- it makes sense to add some validity to such a thing if a credible, trusted entity gives your microskill a thumbs up. There is an Endorsement Working group in the […]
I should not be amazed anymore where a single link click will lead me. But I remain, happily amazed. While it may only be marginally related to my new Creative Commons Certification project, some thinking about how reputation works in online spaces seems relevant. If (big impossible if IMHO) reputation can be measured, it can […]
I gotta say I love getting some good feedback on yesterday’s post about my new gig via comments and tweets. The well wishes were, well, great, but what I really valued immensely were the suggestions people made in my response to me discussion on collaboration systems. Internet, “you complete me” (and “you had me in […]
