Morning With 8th Graders posted 21 Dec ’07, 11.56am MST PST on flickr I got an invite yesterday to join in on a WorldBridges session with 8th grade students of Lee Baber (Western part of Virginia), Paul Allison (New York City), and Madeline ? (also new York) in completely chaotic, open discussion about "the future […]

Ahhh, that electronic tome of academia, the The Chronicle of Higher Education, is sporting some of the Emperor’s clothing line. In an article published December 17, 2007 on Colleges Are Reluctant to Adopt New Publication Venues the keen writers there “discovered” the NMC 2007 Horizon Report: Academe has been slow to accept new forms of […]

Moose Mugshot posted 30 May ’07, 4.18pm MDT PST on flickr We just spent a week camping up at Algonquin. It was wonderful, such a gorgeous wilderness and what wildlife! Woo hoo! I’m already planning to attend Northern Voice 2008 but now I am packing the good moose duds since my session on “50 Web […]

It boggles a bit, but Feed2JS (Feed to Javascript) was an “experiment” I started 4 1/2 years ago when I first fell into the wondrous potential of RSS for dynamic distribution of content. It continues to run as a largely un-attended services (meaning I’ve hardly paid attention to the source code for 2 years) thanks […]

Spock Bag posted 14 Oct ’05, 1.30pm MDT PST on flickr I embroidered this Spock bag for Mason the other day. I am trying to determine of the recent small trickle of emails notifying me that “XXXXX has requested your trust on Spock” is of merit or just another blotch of Quechup. So before I […]

Medaling is Just Finishing posted 9 Dec ’07, 12.05pm MST PST on flickr Award for completing the 2007 Fiesta Bowl Half Marathon, in Scottsdale (2:21 slow going!) — this is just the half way in prep for my first Marathon a month from now. I’ve casually watched, and greatly impressed, by the ways people are […]

web shows what we have chosen to care about posted 9 Dec ’07, 2.26pm MST PST on flickr I’ve always been fascinated by efforts to map cyberspace”¦ most maps seem to focus on the physical network connections but the ones I find the most interesting are those that try to map the diversity and connections […]

Second Life Live Video Stream Setup posted 7 Dec ’07, 11.33am MST PST on flickr My home office technology used for the NMC Symposium on Evolution of Communcation held entirely in Second Life. The PC on the left, a high HP game station, is my Second Life camera, operated by my alt avatar, Zoraster Gaffer. […]

A quiet moment for me posted 17 Dec ’05, 11.38pm MST PST on flickr In the middle of nowhere, so silent you can only hear the blood flowing through your ears. Good job a car is nearby or I’d be in trouble. Hi, my name is Alan, and I am a compulsive del.icio.us tagger. Just […]

Sometimes a comment spurns me to explore and learn something new– it just happened! I love flickr notes and am confounded about how few people, especially educators take advantage of a tool to provide hypertext annotation to images. But the only way to view them is on the flickr site. So when “kev_hickey_uk” left a […]