As an alternative to the myopic sounds of news on the radio these days, I’m turning up the amount of podcast listening when I have more than 30 driving. One show I have been really enjoying is Song Exploder: Song Exploder is a podcast where musicians take apart their songs, and piece by piece, tell […]
The last time I was home for a Presidential Election was 1996, when the other Clinton won. Oh I definitely voted in every election by mail-in ballot. Let’s peel those elections off… In 2000, I was in the third leg of my 6 month sabbatical from the Maricopa Community Colleges, in Canberra Australia. According to […]
We have just finished the 8 week online phase of the UDG Agora project, this the second year I have been part of this project run by the Justice Institute of British Columbia for faculty at the University of Guadalajara. This is where we tell them about Comparte (Spanish for “Share”), a site I made […]
Editors Note: This blog has a strict policy agains guest posts, but sometimes you have to relax the rules. My pal Bob stopped by unexpectedly and rather made himself at home. He wrote this. Heya. This here Arizona scenery is more spectacular than Alan let on. Life got a little crazy last week, and I […]
According to a calendar, today my grandmother should be celebrating her 111th birthday, such a symmetrical (and big) number. I will do it for her. One of my favorite stories she told was of not having a birth certificate, but as an adult, she was able to get one from census records that provided enough […]
I have increasing respect for historians who try to decipher events from hundreds of years ago. They have shreds to work with. What I am writing about is from only five years ago. I was part of it. I have my story of what happened. But still, it’s not always so clear. Nor might it […]
Never say never. Never say never multiple times. Never blog about saying never. Never. Ever. On December 19, 2006 I blogged about putting a CC-BY license on my flickr photos. Then on September 7, 2010, I had reason to try on CC-BY-NC. From feedback, I flipped to CC-BY-SA and a week later I was back […]
It has been a really, really, really long time since I have been so excited, almost giddy, about a conference experience. Maybe going back to the first Open Education ones, or better yet, to the Northern Voice conferences 10 years ago. Perhaps I wrote conferences off, but last week’s Digital Media and Learning conference held […]
It’s after 11:00PM, hours after co-leading a 6+ hour pre-conference workshop at the 2016 DML Conference, and my adrenaline is still pumping. And feeling a bit daunted in how to summarize this, an off the cuff tweet sort of says it: I did an 8 hour commercial for them today at #2016dml To be blogged… […]
One would be hard pressed not to appreciate the beauty of roses. Juliet made the case that Romeos last name did not matter. A close up photograph helps a young creative man decide between a career in music or photography. Portland crowns itself as the City of Roses but they are not alone. While I […]
