Think of a topic that you deeply care about. That you advocate for. Or argue with others who have a different viewpoint. In my world, maybe it’s Open Education. Or MOOCs. Or cMOOCs (POOCS, SMOOCS DOOCS…) Badges. Textbooks. Learning Analytics. Maybe your passionate discussions are not quite monkeys tossing excrement, but have you ever pondered […]
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 […]
One of my weird hobbies is figuring out web tools I can manipulate from just changing something in the URL. In my just ranted piece on Instagram I sought out a thing that would tell me when in time a certain date was that was like 247 weeks ago. Research Maniacs had just the thing, […]
In the affirming spirit of the US elections, let’s talk about winning. By the metrics of internet success, one might say that Instagram pretty much is winning the photo sharing corner of the internet. Gulp their own sheer numbers: Instagram should be the poster child for what Mike Caulfield characterizes as StreamMode: I’ve been talking […]
Call me easily distracted. Yesterday I was filing some papers (yes I have papers) in a filing cabinet (ditto, 2 small drawers). I noted an old one in the back, a bunch of paperwork from my sabbatical in 2000 while at the Maricopa Community Colleges. This will be a future post, but I was hoping […]
I am getting rid of my iPhone. No, this is not an Apple rant. Heck, my phone feels very secure these days (pffffttt FPI). I adore my sleek iPhone6s — the one I am getting rid of is a twice cracked screen iPhone5. That is the phone I bought in December 2012 after returning home […]
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 […]
Several people have shared these stories about what Facebook is (here comes the scare quotes) “doing” about fake accounts.– Facebook is testing a feature that alerts you if someone is impersonating your account (from mashaable.com) and Facebook is reportedly testing a tool for detecting profile imposters (The Verge)… and everyone else is re-reporting it– Facebook’s […]
Don’t ask about the yeast. Ok, I would ask about it. I was awake at 5:30am today to turn on the lights for the Google Hangout session with folks at the Digital Pedagogy Lab Cairo held at the American University Cairo (AUC). In the warm up time before the hangout goes live, the virtual buddies […]
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 […]
