I blame Google Calendar. Yeah. Sometime last year (?) I started seeing on my GCal the birthdays of other people who I guess are in my G+ circles? Contacts? Who knows with Google/Alphabet/Whatevertheyarecalled now? Stuff just appears. Monday I spotted this in my calendar: Look at that, Thursday is Maha Bali’s birthday. Wow, it would […]
Inventive kid Builds Electronic clock. Takes To School to Share. Administrators Panic. BOMB! Kid Handcuffed by Cops. Rage Breaks Out In Twitter (Facebook frets over button). Our collective cycle of social ignorance/stupidity/racism/ goes sadly through another Lather Rinse (Do Not Learn from Mistakes) cycle. I’m not going to summarize the story of Ahmed, it’s easy […]
All it takes is alarm clocks and coffee. No, alarm clocks, coffee, and a relatively small group of interesting, geographically dispersed people. And some google hangouts. And now a Slack with snarky bots. Last week the geometrically growing Virtually Connecting was set up for several live sessions from participants at the ALT Conference (Association for […]
Just for fun, published to medium… I Can’t Do Much About Internet Spam (But making fun of them makes me feel better) Top / Featured Image Credit: My Photoshop remix of an image spammed at me via twitter. In my book, spammers have no rights at all least of all rights to prevent me from […]
I do not even want to look to find out the last time I officially completed a ds106 assignment (probably last time I taught, Spring 2014). But I was so inspired by Bill Genereux’s new one, A Scene We Didn’t Get To See: Create a short video that shows a scene from your favorite TV […]
We are hearing a lot of feedback from our UDG Agora participants that many of their efforts to have their students use twitter fall short “They don’t like it”, “They won’t go there”, “they prefer Facebook”. I have zero surprise. If you send anyone to twitter for the first time telling them to “make and […]
I’ve used this suggestion a few times to participants in our UdGAgora Project who are trying to figure out what kinds of things they can have their students do, that also produce some artifact that documents their learning. Few things work better to me than having your students have to explain the concept themselves to […]
This year is the fourth iteration of a course in the Netherlands that I support remotely with Nancy White. Offered at the Hague University of Applied Sciences in the Industrial Design Engineering (IDE) program: Project Community is a project, a community and a set of tools for using online communities and networks for enhancing the […]
I had to do this, I tweeted myself out on a limb. First there was the wildly epic good news maybe yesterday that Jesse Stommel was going to take on the role of leading DTLT at the University of Mary Washington, but as pointed out in a tweet by Rolin Moe, there’s a lot to […]
This is a story of near invisible amounts of satisfaction that are not insignificant. Dare I not insert more half double negatives? It makes sense, I think, to people who “code” in that are in the fuzzy netherland between having surfed through some series of tutorials because People On Medium Say Everyone Should Code and […]
