My Dad spent a lot of time in the yard. Pushing the lawnmower. Raking leaves. Trimming the forsythia bushes. I want to say I pondered him doing that and wondered what he thought about spending all those hours out there, but maybe that is more hindsight memory. But he definitely found his own rewards from […]
I don;t have much time or energy to do a big writeup, but seeing a DS106 Daily Create on remixing book covers, is hard to pass (well I knew about it since I put in the site, but that was a while again). I just scrolled through a long list of covers found in Google […]
It’s been more than a year since I ended a fellowship at Thompson Rivers University where Brian Lamb and I cooked up our SPLOT concept (what the SPLOT? See ’em at a lovely short URL or see the presentation we did at OpenEd 2015. They have been bubbling up slowly seeds of interest and people […]
Like I’ve done in the past, to some degree of success, I am asking for people to help out on a project with a video response to questions related to my new project with Creative Commons, helping to design/build a system, process for offering a “certification” in Creative Commons. Yes, I put that in quotes, […]
Before you make a wisecrack about the imminent demise of the creaky old Yahoo bad mojo flickr (which I continue to use daily 12 years after I started)… crank up the music! Via a comment from “Eric” (nothanks@yahoo.com) on a post where I myself called flickr an word that stars with “a” and ends with […]
Yup, the branding folks at the CogDogBlog Inc are rolling out a new logo and header. This is a big move around here, and may not be popular. Mickey has been a staple of this blog since it began in 2003, and it feels a bit weird to be changing him out. Change is hard, […]
Prefixing many words with “Hyper” makes them more interesting. Go from ordinary space into Hyperspace. Leave the everyday 3 dimensions of a cube for a Hypercube. What Apple did for me and many of us with a card on a little square computer? Hypercard. (okay my wordplay goes bad for medical conditions, as a diabetic, […]
This post provides no insight to new technology, forces that might “fix” education, nor anything that addresses injustice in the world. Instead, I celebrate the pure, unanticipated reach of what remains for now an open internet, one that each time you think you’ve seen an edge, infinity yawns open. It’s about twitter, and those is […]
You really cannot make this stuff up, but someone out there actually does… There are bad visualizations, and then there's the 'bicycle of education'. pic.twitter.com/seigDh715h — Tim van der Zee (@Research_Tim) May 31, 2016 Take a look at that imagery- is that a bicycle anyone wants to ride? Is that an education anyone wants? Can […]
I saw this photo opportunity and almost hesitated. My foot was about to move me forward, but my inner voice said, “wait, there is something special in this light.” Or so that is how I imagine the voices working. This happened about 3/4 the way through one of the morning daily walks I do now […]
