Nothing adds to sausage like spice. Irony is a spice. A colleague tweeted a like to a new article by Douglas Rushkoff called Digital Disruption and the Death of Storytelling. I’m prepping some new talks on storytelling, and I find Rushkoff’s writing on the intersections of media, technology, and people often compelling. Professor and media […]
Tomorrow at 8pm ET I join my long time colleague and good friend Darren Kuropatwa for an OSSEMOOC webinar session on Storytelling, by request of Donna Fry. There is a story in that sentence, because during my cross Canada leg of my 2011 Odyssey I met Darren for the first time in Winnipeg, and it […]
It’s taken me 51 years to get around to baking cookies. Honoring Mother’s Day and my mom’s own tradition it seemed time to try. As a diabetic, chocolate chip cookies don’t work too well (yeah I know there is imitation chocolate), but recently I noticed in the inside of the Quaker Oats bin was a […]
Whilst passing through various discussions, tweet streams, blog posts about education, I end up feeling like Michelle Flaherty because I am always reaching for my experience and examples from ds106 (I won’t embed the video 😉 While not much actively involved lately, since 2011, I have been an open participant, a face to face course […]
My sister Harriet is rather talented. Not only did she pick out the paint colors and materials for last year’s kitchen makeover , she’s good with the artistic kinds of painting too. Growing up, I remember her doing oil painting (one of her tall ships sits in my living room), but now retired in Florida, […]
This concept could be big. Huge. Whilst looking for something else this morning, I opened a sealed box. Besides finding my Masters thesis and a box of old black and white print photos, I found this box of HyperCard diskettes, still sealed inside their protective plastic holder. The box is dated 1987, and the paper […]
Aren’t those shirts pretty? And they are part of a web site I made recently representing courses to be offered starting August at Virginia Commonwealth University. I could not be more stoked to be part of another big, unfolding as we develop it, projects with Gardner Campbell and Company at VCU. Last year I helped […]
I am pretty sure there must be one of those Words that Have No English Translation for “fatigue of writing family tribute posts.” The photo shows flowers I picked from my own garden to visit someone I shall not see again. Nancy is my ex’s mother. While those two do not have a relationship, Nancy […]
Bad Alan. This has been lingering in the to do pile too long. On my route home from Canada last month, I made it a specific point to make my last stop in St George Utah, to visit Carl Berger. He’s been retired from University of Michigan for some time, but that does not mean […]
I have fallen in love. With a city. Well, it may have been more of a whirlwind romance last week in Guadalajara, Mexico. But we get to date again in July an December. How this all happened is one of those series of unlikely fortunate chains of serendipity, going back a few months to my […]
