In which I bark and growl about things that get under my fur.
cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) flickr photo shared by thebassoonist12 If a classroom can be flipped to make better use of time and group processes, why are we not flipping more things? I’ve spent three days in Austin attending a conference in the same model going back how Ook ran them in 2500 […]
Disappointed with people I consider online peers who are up in arms about #OpenBadges & #ConnectedLearning. As if ideas are ‘owned’. Gah. — Doug Belshaw (@dajbelshaw) March 6, 2012 I am fairly sure I can draw the dots as to what Doug is Gah-ing about. Badge bashing is flashing about, but it was hardly “up […]
cc licensed ( BY ND ) flickr photo shared by Mom Smackley Maybe this is a series, but today’s rant is a follow-up on How to Be a Social Media Dust Bunny*. Spam by email is likely now about 15+ years old, and has become such a commonality that many of us take it as […]
cc licensed ( BY ND ) flickr photo shared by Tambako the Jaguar I am riding on a train, watching the archive of Higher-Ed Live interview with Audrey Waters. She and host Seth Odell are bantering about the possibilities of the hither to change everything MITx, the Stanford AI course and Open Badges as well […]
cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) flickr photo shared by eatmorechips Stephen Downes is not enamored by the TED machine: TED has certainly figured out how to monetize learning – and Alan Levine notwithstanding a big part of that, I would say, lies in offering opinions and talks that are safe for business people […]
Not unlike the scared question of how many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop, I just counted six clicks needed to do a Google Image search for content that is licensed for reuse. Six. Here we go. (1) Go to Google image search. It has that new sparse […]
cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by TFDuesing I must admit that when I come across other people’s flaming #FAIL tweets I experience a wave of “hey- over reaction, eh?”– until it is I in the fiery rage of being done under by a bad consumer experience. And here is the thing, no […]
cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog You might wait for someone/something to condone your credentials. To me, it is of even more importance that you always be doing that effort yourself to make sure there is evident of what you are capable of. Why wait passively for some sticker? Yes, I […]
cc licensed ( BY SD ) flickr photo shared by gagilas I am aiming to get some flack for this, but I do not really get gushing over mind maps. (ducking). Wait a minute– I all for the power of sketching out ideas, of brainstorming on visually on paper, of thinking visually– see I do […]
cc licensed ( BY SD ) flickr photo shared by Steve-h I might now go as far to say I “love” my iPhone, but it must be my most regularly used piece of technology. But my first love was, and will be, the web- that bit that works because Sir Tim made it so that […]
