Everything that does not have a home, just a big old stinking pile of posts.
That photo looks a little like me, but that is my grandfather, who passed away 59 years ago today. I can picture that framed image as it was in the wood paneled basement of the house I grew up in Baltimore. It sat in a space on a wall of bookshelves, sitting above the old […]
In my workshops and materials on finding images licensed for reuse, I do explain how google image search can be used to filter out results that are licensed for reuse. I use this quite often myself, in fact I recommend making a browser search shortcut to make this easy to do. But be wary of […]
This happened at the happy hour Tuesday after being at the Maricopa Teaching With Technology Conference. Across a noisy table, Bill Farrar posed an inquisitive question my way. When I worked at Maricopa, Bill was a psychology teacher at Mesa Community College, now he is at Estrella Mountain and the interim Director of their Center […]
That’s not only a confusing title it’s seemingly something unlikely had you asked me a year ago — “Will you in the future play guitar with a cello teacher you meet for the first time at a 200 year old mission in Tucson?” And today’s meeting with Laura Ritchie ought to have been an entry […]
It’s a bit of a mind bend to calculate that it has been more than 9 years since I left my first “real” job — 14 years as an instructional technologist at the Maricopa Community Colleges. The real bend back to reality was the warm greetings I got today returning there for the 2015 Teaching […]
@audreywatters Ditto, I feel like Willa Wonka getting the golden ticket — Alan Levine (@cogdog) May 15, 2015 It truly felt like getting the golden ticket yesterday for the opportunity to host a one hour conversation with Audrey Watters as one of the Connected Learning sessions focused on the Design by Equity theme of the […]
It’s been almost a year since I caught up with Darren Kuropatwa, last was a year ago following up visiting Gimli Manitoba for the Riding the Wave conference. At request of Donna Fry, we teamed up for a live web session on Digital Storytelling last night for the Ontario School and System Leaders Edtech MOOC […]
A few hours early, but here is your birthday present, @drjones106 — one of your greatest hits. I knew there was a pretty good remix potential in Dylan’s Ballad of a Thin Man (from Highway 61 Revisited). The tabs were a bit all over, I munged together a few, this was closest to what I […]
Talk about rabbit holes (the kind the dogs go running down). Twas just a tweet flying by Let's Talk About Dogs! http://t.co/HnYM7THV21 — Brendan Murphy (@dendari) May 12, 2015 This, published on imgur, is way more than image sharing. BePawsitive, self proclaimed dog lover writes: This post showed up on the front page a few […]
Nothing adds to sausage like spice. Irony is a spice. A colleague tweeted a like to a new article by Douglas Rushkoff called Digital Disruption and the Death of Storytelling. I’m prepping some new talks on storytelling, and I find Rushkoff’s writing on the intersections of media, technology, and people often compelling. Professor and media […]
