171 Posts Categorized "Rants"

In which I bark and growl about things that get under my fur.

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Web Makers / Web Breakers

cc licensed ( BY NC ) flickr photo shared by concretecandy The web is a fabric we weave and wear together or tear apart. Posterous yesterday announced a new feature- the web they wove back in 2008? Thrown away in 2013. To you read URLs? I bet they changed the title of the post from […]

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One Day of All This Will Be Yours

When the world is full of things that don’t make sense, make a GIF. When you get tired of all the repeated echoes off the chamber walls put down that copy of The Chronicle, and make a GIF. When twitter is full of bird crap, make a GIF. Well… it’s a strategy that works for […]

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Openness Beyond the Course Container

cc licensed ( BY SD ) flickr photo shared by 2493â„¢ With no sign of any waning of MOOC Hysteria, it seems like a “course” is of course the only way of convening educators online. There is some stampeded going to create more MOOCs or various anagram soups of MOONs OOs, MOOS, whatever. Alec Couros […]

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Take Me Down

Go ahead, take me down! Our professional team of qualified experts know how to get your stolen content taken down fast. No matter what country the thieving website is hosted in. On average we will have your stolen or copyrighted material take down within a few hours. Them’s strong words. But again, since I am […]

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Sniffing the Trails of Serendipty

(or if you are not linking the web you are just squatting on it) cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by mccun934 I’m part of a session at next month’s Open Education Conference on Analyzing and supporting interaction in complex scenarios: the case of DS106 thatb was suggested by Julià Minguillón and also […]