In prep for an Open Ed 2015 presentation with Brian Lamb on our world famous SPLOTs (“SPLOTs and Darkweb Plots: Advancing and Supporting Open Educational Experiences” Lamb-ian title), I spent a bit of time on the plane and here in Vancouver cleaning up the github repository for the TRU Collector SPLOT. This is another WordPress […]
Twas almost a year ago at the start of my fellowship at TRU that I started what would become the TRU Writer SPLOT, a tool I think has some legs, and maybe arms. This is on the heels of some demos Brian did last week at the 2015 ETUG Fall Workshop and what we will […]
The last few days of angry blogging/tweeting on my photos being part of catfishing scammers have taken a toll. I am unfocused on work, wound up, and not spending enough time outside under the skies. Stepping back… Blog, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, There is no way to really […]
The Catfishers are pulling out all the stops. I got an email this morning from a victim who was communicating with someone supposedly named Michael Carlos Hughes. Apparently on LinkedIn I am a petroleum geologist at Chevron The woman sent me many photos of me that “Michael” sent her- this one is really insidious, look […]
I should be working on stuff. I have stuff to do. But I’m deep in the internet rabbit tubes again, and I cannot just drop this trail. The trailhead was a book. One that was published in 1924. Almost at random, on Sunday I pulled it from a shelf at Moose Mountain Antique store in […]
It may be a first for me to write a blog post that gushes over a research paper. This is it, but you will have to bear with a bit of storytelling that led to this Astounding Action. During a recent 46 days of east coast travel, I bounced the idea for my T**x talk […]
To Brian Lamb, Yacht Rock borders on religion. Part mockumentary, it was a web video series that Brian has raved about for almost as I have known him. I won’t even try to explain it, leave that to Wikipedia. And to me shame, I’ve not watched it. That’s on my homework list; Brian has done […]
The work I am part of at Virtual Connecting might be described as “hybridizing” (oi 20 lashes for making that a word) the conference attendance experience- mixing the virtual/remote and the on-site/F2F one. As a slight twist on this, I was part of something that was a hybrid of the mode of presentation. I’ve done […]
This is a tale of how my curiosity gets fed and pulled into unexpected places on the internet (yes the one that apparently died again in 2015). This is a tale of how my plans for a “productive” morning get nudged later as I cannot stop seeking connections. This is a tale of why my […]
Some ideas just rattle around the grey matter until something triggers a reminder. Bud Hunt wrote yesterday with a fine metaphor On Constraints, Road Maps, and Driving Directions as he thinks about how to balance the structure vs looseness in curriculum design: One way that’s productive in thinking about constraints that are helpful and still […]
