Everything that does not have a home, just a big old stinking pile of posts.
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 […]
POP! Like a zombie, email is declared dead on regular intervals. There are counter assertions, but the most significant sign to me, is the increasing frequency of web popovers that implore me to sign up for news by…. email. POP! I tried this month to screen cap all the ones I zapped; I definitely missed […]
Data. Big. Analytics. I don’t dismiss a potential, the efforts to “harness” it. I just don’t find it all that interesting. But my data? Different. I’ve been running my own metrics for maybe two months. I may hate dieting more than I hate running. The only time I lost a good amount of weight was […]
It all started with a tweet from someone I don’t know. Today’s DS106 Daily Create was about showing how “massive” it is: #ds106 #dailycreate #tdc1602 Show the world how DS106 is MASSIVE https://t.co/y7RxyNZJva pic.twitter.com/hqu7qXFZje — ds106 Daily Create (@ds106dc) May 28, 2016 And I smiled seeing how @g1000p, a twitter account with 4 total tweets, […]
There goes that calendar reminder. Today is the day in 1956 that my grandfather, Abraham passed away, seven years before I was even born. I know he died young; his wife lived until 2003; outliving her husband by 47 years is staggering. I am not sure when he was born, somewhere I have in a […]
For a while I was saving screen shots of some of the convoluted license statements I come across in Wikimedia Commons. There were ones where images were public domain in one country, but of course here in the US Congress every few years extends copyright like another 50 years. One of the most “crappy” set […]
Twas just some silly banter in twitter that got me looking for an image I had created for a presentation at an EDUCAUSE ELI conference. And thus I found myself flipping through a set of remix style book covers I had made back in 2006, a full half decade prior to find a course/cult named […]
With time you cannot help accruing memories, they just keep happening, piling up. I’ve read opinions about ed-tech people who go on about how great things were in the early days of the web, or moaning how “twitter is not the same as it was,” are pathetically nostalgic, or worse, for an era that was […]
I have an obsession with a 3 digital number. Of course it’s 106 for the greatest ed-tech thing that’s ever happened. But I’m just talking here about the 3 digit number. Since January 2011, I have collected 367 photos of finding 106’s in the world. Milepost markers. Scale measurements. Fuel prices (Canadian liters). Addresses. Time. […]
