Everything that does not have a home, just a big old stinking pile of posts.
Through more twitter conversations with Maha Bali, my memory cells rekindled an early web project I did while working at the Maricopa Center for Learning & Instruction (Maricopa Community Colleges). I might boast that I built something to help a faculty member blog (there ought to be some scare quotes). I’d really forgotten this, but […]
creative commons licensed ( BY-SA ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog What was I looking for in the drawer in my office? An envelope? For some reason, I lost track of the task at hand, and noticed the black moleskin notebook with the SFMOMA logo. I remember it. And lost myself down a memory hole […]
After seeing Martin’s tweet, I thought “lt should be easy”… @bonstewart @wishcrys @iktmaria unfortunately education is still broken — Martin Weller – @Mweller (@mweller) August 14, 2014 Whereby distraction led me down the road of making It just seems so desirable for some stuff we could dab on anything and fix it. There’s all kinds […]
creative commons licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by Jeremy Levine Design Having done more than a handful of Feed WordPress powered syndication sites, I’ve had some interesting opportunities to handle difference scenarios when the course/event actually decides to run another year. I posted an extensive write up for The Harvard School of Graduate […]
creative commons licensed ( BY-SA ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog In 20+ years, the internet has never failed to provide me a continuous giddy stream of unexpected surprises. It makes Alice’s trip look like a cheesy 1980s VHS movie. This morning I cleaned a lot of duds, dead critters, and dust bunnies from my […]
They are out there…
At the crack of 6:30am Friday I was doing a remote presentation for the Ontario Universities’ Council on e-Learning (OUCEL), via request from colleagues there. Given that hour, I took some liberty with the seriousness and invoked the metaphor of the passion and conviction of those that pursue Sasquatch.
I’m still curious and intrigued by the writing environment of medium.com, though it will always be third fiddle to this blog. I was conversing with someone recently about the ease at which people misjudge the desert environment, what I have described as a dangerous gulf between over-estimating one’s abilities and under-estimating the desert environment. It […]
As usual in my house yesterday I had NPR Radio on in the background. The show Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me had a segment with Baltimore filmmaker John Waters as guest. PETER SAGAL: In April 2011, we talked to a man who’s made some of our favorite movies ““ John Waters, who went to the […]
I happily resume my role in ds106 as an open participant. With the new season starting in September at UMW being based on The Wire, I finally have the right reason to watch the whole series again (one of only two I’ve ever watched start to end; not only am I a MOOC dropout, I […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9C1kBeO48Q I could not help myself but remix when I saw the tweet by Tim Maughan (actually retweeted by @savasavasava) https://twitter.com/timmaughan/status/497770409660801026 Mostly through sava’s tweets, I’ve gathered Tim is on some expedition, by freighter ship, to China, to get to the source of those shiny things on our store shelves. According to his original video, […]
