311 Posts from 2016

Blog Pile, Rants

Blocked in Belarus (and 242 other countries)

My apologies to all the people of “some” countries: Afghanistan, Aland Islands, Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Andorra, Angola, Anguilla, Antarctica, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Bouvet Island, Brazil, British Indian Ocean Territory, British Virgin Islands, Brunei, […]

Blog Pile

Consistently Cole

I go way back with Cole Camplese, when I was still at the Maricopa Community Colleges and he was at Penn State University doing assessments with a click wheel iPod. He was the person in 2007, when I was “what is the use of twitter” who gave an actual compelling use case. We’ve blogged back […]

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Not Your Mothers Father of Distance Education

Tony Bates recently posted Who are the founding fathers of distance education? following the release of a Steve Wheeler produced video interview with Tony and other identified “fathers” Michael Moore and Sir John Daniel. As he is, Tony humbly downplays his role, and lists five other suggestions in his post, inviting others to add comment […]

Photography

Image / Photo

One of many pieces of Jonathan Worth wisdom to me was his differentiation, as a photographer, of the photographic print versus the digital image. Both we see as pictures, representations of the world. The business of photography, assigning a value to a photo, the laws of copyright, our idea of ownership are fixated in that […]