I bet you don’t ever look to see what’s on the bottom side of your furniture. I didn’t. Not till today. The featured photo on this post is the bottom side of a most special piece of furniture, the rocking chair that belonged to my deceased brother. It has its own story (read only if […]
Has anyone jumped any chasms lately? Once again, the associative trails in my cerebral memex fired off this morning. Via a tweet from Karen Fasimpaur, I watched Wes Fryer’s metaphor rich keynote Igniting Innovation in Teaching and Learning At 2:41 Wes introduced the Technology Adoption Curve, the notion based on Everett Rodgers Diffusion of Innovation […]
You can fuss about your mentions, follower counts, book sales, klout scores, all of that is bubkahs to me in lieu of what the internet has and does afford me in enabling genuine connectivity with likable people I would never have gotten to know otherwise. This bubbled up the cranium following a series of wonderful […]
Yes, kids, there was educational technology before the web. And it was shiny. I was reminded of this particular disc and rummaged for it (a thought vector-ish associative trail) from a post by Mike Caulfield mentioning a paleotechnic system called TICCIT. This was before my time, but when I started as a green horn educational […]
I collect stories of unexpected things that happen to people when they share what they create in the open. They used to be amazing, but after a copyright slap, they are true. The only time I usually add is when I get a chance to present the stories; there is (ahem) (cough) (ahem) an easy […]
cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by Alan Levine These notecards came with a resort stay in Hawaii a few years ago. Don’t ask me why I hold on to these ones; I have no use for them. On this day in 2011, I was setting out from southern Ontario on the […]
With the hundreds of tweets, emails, and thoughts I feel in the air regarding my Mom’s passing, I am more that “lifted” by my net. As Mom would say, “I am blown away”. I was asked to edit the audio part of her “Stories on ds106 radio” where she talks about butterflies. I’d heard her […]
Looking at the old drafting table got me thinking of my Dad again. I found this table among the piles of stuff in our family home basement in Baltimore. Since leaving for college, I had asked Dad for it, and have taken it everywhere I have gone. I drove it across the US in my […]
I spoke to my Mom last night, one of our almost weekly phone calls. It was a bit ominous when she called me at 8:00am this morning… she shared the sad news that my Aunt Martha had passed away. She lived alone in Baltimore. Ten days ago, the people who clean her place found Martha […]
“You’ve got two empty halves of coconut and you’re bangin’ ’em together.” Since I began banging coconuts in instructional technology in 1992, I’ve heard of this quest for the holy grail, the mythical database of who’s doing what with technology. I held back writing this for maybe a day, but could not let it go– […]
