True Stories of Openness

Unexpected Acts Serendipity Sprung from Open Sharing

From Sign on the Street to Baker Bill

This is a retelling of the story I blogged in 2014 Skittering Along The Great Curiosity Engine — to Baker…

Memorium for Leslie Hope Jarmon

Gardner Campbell shares his memory of a blog post written in tribute to a colleague who passed away: This time,…

Sharing as in Vital Organs

Perhaps to me the greatest story ever. When Cable Greene was diagnosed with a life threatening illness and came to…

On Openness, Then, Now

The original story of openness was this: I posted my “Stephen’s Guide to the Logical Fallacies” for anyone to use…

An Awkward Question and A Book that Would Never Have Been Written Without Openness

Amazing story of openness that starts with an awkward question, leads to the writing of a book, which never would…

The Ripples Can be REALLLLY Slow

I have reached that stage in my professional life where I am “rewiring” (versus retiring). I’ve become super selective on…

Reflecting on being open several years later

Going back to revisit the story from 2009

My DS106 Retro TV Image is on Stage With the Buggles

It seems improbable and would not have been even known to me had not my New Zealand colleague Stephen Harlow…

Kindness Across the Oceans

I have met a lot wonderful people making art and participating in #ds106, but two of them live in Glasgow,…

Creativity to tackle discrimination – my serendipity story

When I contributed to the OER22 blog series, Alan Levine invited me to join his true stories series.  So here…

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