Between our presentation at Open Education 2015 and the discussions this week at TRU, it’s been rewarding to see and hear interest into what was characterized (I have my own proof) on October 28, 2014 as: I might have snickered a little the first time Brian suggested SPLOT as a name for a group of […]
To start with a complete random, isn’t-the-internet-weird-and-wonderful story… I sought an image for this post by searching google images (settings for licensed for re-use) for dumb machine — and a few scrolls down from images of old computers, images of asylums and pinball machines… one of my own photos jumped out. Why is my old […]
My how I have fallen down on my presentation archiving. I joined Tom Woodward and Amy Rector Verrelli on the last day of Open Education 2015 to present The Great VCU Bike Race Book: Connected Learning meets the UCI Road World Championships. Imagine your university was going to close for a week in the 1st […]
The second of three sessions my name was listed on at Open Ed 2015 was Splots and Darkweb Plots. It might not take a lot of guessing to know that this was co-presented with Brian Lamb. Furthermore, in the spirit of remix, the platform of the presentation was the same platform as just described in […]
Our Open Education 2015 presentation yesterday on the UDG Agora project was scheduled in the big vast main ballroom. The big house. Along with Tannis Morgan, Brian Lamb, and Terri Bateman, we tried to cram a lot of stuff into a 30 minute box. My “weird idea that my colleagues should laugh it off dismissively” […]
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 […]
