Today, Oct 15. was approximately my grandmother’s birthday. She would have been 110 today. That top photo is me recording her stories (on a micro-cassette tape) in 1994 at my sister’s house in Baltimore. That’s been digitized and blogged here before, but heck, I still like just the first 5 minutes of that I made […]
I was out of ideas so for today’s UdG Agora Daily Try I went back to the well of DS106 Daily Create number 932 on July 28, 2014: From Memory, Draw The Path Traveled to Your First School Go back to your first days of school; draw a map of the epic journey to get […]
These legs of this trip do not truly have temporal marking points. This marker might be almost at the point I have stopped coughing, some 3 weeks since falling with Bronchitis in Richmond. I left Richmond by train on October 1 bound just up the railroad to Fredericksburg. I made a travel mistake. not listening […]
Just to prove that nothing blogged here is written chiseled in granite, with great shame I admit unpulling the fork I put in my facebook account in 2014. I am present with the most minimal timeline, and it is solely so I can communicate with students in Project Community. That said, I am feeling the […]
David Kernohan tweeted the arrival of Richard Branson to jump in the disruption of education pool Meanwhile, in the future of education… pic.twitter.com/oeAhN3eKLO — David Kernohan (@dkernohan) October 1, 2015 which has duly been commented upon by Martin Weller. Each time I see the Get Yer Tickets for the Disruption ad my first free form […]
The small project started by Maha Bali and Rebecca Hogue is growing as more people get involved with bridging educational conferences with people who cannot attend in person. We have an active Slack (funny words together), and plans in motion for at least 5 upcoming conferences. Heck, there might be a manifesto too. Woot! We […]
(I cannot say in words a reason for the choice of the image above, it’s weird enough to fit). It’s just about 2 weeks into a 7 week barnstorming tour of various parts of USA, and… well it was not quite how I envisioned it. I’m in motion today by the train to Fredericksburg, VA, […]
Howdy! There’s gonna be a ds106 full of western stories and movies that I will be teaching next Spring for Kansas State University. Bill Genereux has been a long time ds106 partner in teaching a Kansas State University course on digital storytelling that he has hitched his wagon to the DS106 horse. He offered me […]
From our initial visits and surveys of participants, we knew twitter was not in wide use among the faculty participants of the UDG Agora project. We heard people mostly use Facebook, and WhatsApp for quick communication. In our first meetings, we collecting some data for participant’s twitter awareness (this was only sent out the first […]
Oh those calendar notifications. Sunday would have been the birthday of my Aunt Martha, though she was not technically my aunt. Possibly she grew up in the same part of Baltimore as my parents, Forrest Park High School area (?), she and her husband George were my godparents. Her passing away in 2010 was a […]
