As those great O2 ads went… “Be More Dog” The other morning as Cori and I went outside, with Felix following, both of us humans saw the rabbit. Felix was oblivious as he scampered about. Even the rabbit was aware. But once Felix looked at the critter, he took off in chase. Full force. He […]
Twitter is nearly universally accepted as a dumpster fire of hate, misinformation, and just badness. And this is just said by people in Twitter. But it can excel in small ways perhaps lost in the noise. If you ask for with something specific, people you do not know like to offer answers. This is not […]
Cue up the NCSA Silver Browser Band… Just take those old web sites off the shelf I’ll click and watch ’em by myself Today’s sites ain’t got the same soul I like that old-time HTM&L Don’t tell me about web standards What fun is there without a tag for a blink Or a marquee to […]
The opening philosophical question here is, “What is a metaphor for a metaphor?” I leave that riddle for the end of this post, wherever it may end up. The blogging here has been a bit sporadic, I could pull out a sheaf of excuses from the overstuffed drawer- project business? pandemic fatigue? outside gardening? The […]
This blog post title likely makes no sense. I must have typed it in and backspaced it out eight times. Maybe nine. And if I can pull together what feels like disparate strands of ideas, that too would be an accomplishment. More likely a good breeze will send it flittering. Would you like more rambling […]
I promise that I am writing this post that will contain nothing even close to an answer, solution, even coherence to all the scrambling effort to plan for the post-Emergency-Learning-Not-A-Pivot response. Just idle speculation. McSweeny’s parody is just that, but there is a glint of reality under the sarcasm: After careful deliberation, we are pleased […]
Okay. We have pivoted, home quarantined, stocked up pantries, filled closets with TP, stretched Wifi limits, set up workspaces in our living spaces. We’re going from reducing screentime to it being all the time. Zoom! Zoom! Zoom! go the days. Social distancing is a universal concept (well barring one orange topped refuser). Stores are doing […]
Here’s a thirteen year arc or maybe a circle or maybe life is just a long looping GIF. One of the old slides says “Start with the #*@% Demo!” so here goes my video prepared as an “alt-format” presentation at the just wrapped OER20 conference. Do You Have to Be Here to Care/Share?Serendipitous connections including […]
It happens so often and ends up being blogged that I’ve tagged this phenomenon freetousewonders. I open a new browser tab in Chrome and the Library Congress Free to Use Extension knocks on my curiosity door with a random public domain image. This time, what you might see as a blank white screen of nothingness, […]
Recently Dean Shareski, long time internet colleague, friend, and since I moved to near Moose Jaw, neighbor, blogged that I Don’t Think I’m an EdTech Guy Anymore. Scanning the comments on his post or the long thread of replies to the tweet thereof, there’s a whole boat full of “Me toos.” Not me. And not […]
