That photo looks a little like me, but that is my grandfather, who passed away 59 years ago today. I can picture that framed image as it was in the wood paneled basement of the house I grew up in Baltimore. It sat in a space on a wall of bookshelves, sitting above the old […]
In my workshops and materials on finding images licensed for reuse, I do explain how google image search can be used to filter out results that are licensed for reuse. I use this quite often myself, in fact I recommend making a browser search shortcut to make this easy to do. But be wary of […]
There are photos that yell at you from the roadside, we just do not hear them, tuned in to the radio or just too much to our own piddly lives. This one yelled out to me from US 395 in Eastern California; I was in the middle (almost literally by mileage) of the return trip […]
This happened at the happy hour Tuesday after being at the Maricopa Teaching With Technology Conference. Across a noisy table, Bill Farrar posed an inquisitive question my way. When I worked at Maricopa, Bill was a psychology teacher at Mesa Community College, now he is at Estrella Mountain and the interim Director of their Center […]
That’s not only a confusing title it’s seemingly something unlikely had you asked me a year ago — “Will you in the future play guitar with a cello teacher you meet for the first time at a 200 year old mission in Tucson?” And today’s meeting with Laura Ritchie ought to have been an entry […]
It’s a bit of a mind bend to calculate that it has been more than 9 years since I left my first “real” job — 14 years as an instructional technologist at the Maricopa Community Colleges. The real bend back to reality was the warm greetings I got today returning there for the 2015 Teaching […]
@audreywatters Ditto, I feel like Willa Wonka getting the golden ticket — Alan Levine (@cogdog) May 15, 2015 It truly felt like getting the golden ticket yesterday for the opportunity to host a one hour conversation with Audrey Watters as one of the Connected Learning sessions focused on the Design by Equity theme of the […]
It’s been almost a year since I caught up with Darren Kuropatwa, last was a year ago following up visiting Gimli Manitoba for the Riding the Wave conference. At request of Donna Fry, we teamed up for a live web session on Digital Storytelling last night for the Ontario School and System Leaders Edtech MOOC […]
Sometime after I ejected myself from Facebook I also deleted my LinkedIn account. I checked in to Hotel LinkedIn when they first started, and as it grew, it consumed services like Slideshare. I have heard of people making important connections via the service, so I do not discount its value for some, to me, I […]
A few hours early, but here is your birthday present, @drjones106 — one of your greatest hits. I knew there was a pretty good remix potential in Dylan’s Ballad of a Thin Man (from Highway 61 Revisited). The tabs were a bit all over, I munged together a few, this was closest to what I […]
