In a meeting/chat this morning with Beck Pitt about her work here at the OER Research Hub, I mumbled something how these kinds of informal conversations with people and their projects more often then not ends up generating unexpected connections down the line. I see these brief meetups this week as more like potential nodes […]
Set your sanctimonious crap shields to 10 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvhAsJPXj1M Put it on the shelf of classics like shallowness of people who take an Amish Technology break bravely going cold turkey FOR 25 WHOLE DAYS. I think the dude should go out with Sherry Turkle for a long walk on the beach to debate the finer points […]
creative commons licensed ( BY-NC ) flickr photo shared by tramani_sagrens No crying (well except for twitter complaining). No giving up in despair. Stay in the fight. Yesterday I got an email from Sandy Jensen Brown Jensen Brown- she is good at letting me know something is amiss with the ds106 Daily Create. Usually the […]
This was not necessarily the point of what Gardener Campbell pulled out of an article about the perhaps sliding value of twitter as a business (Twitter is dead!) The Twitter paradox: the pros & cons of being free http://t.co/QGctQFqvnF > "Twitter functions as a human-mediated RSS feed" #thoughtvectors — Gardner Campbell (@GardnerCampbell) May 6, 2014 […]
As part of my fellowship for the OER Research Hub at the Open University I am sharing these excerpts from conversations about OER use/creation recorded in April 2014 with faculty at the Maricopa Community Colleges. James Sousa, a mathematics faculty at Phoenix College, has quietly produced an impressive collection of openly shared tutorial videos and […]
Yes, as promised, I have confirmed that Milton Keynes has plenty of roundabouts, but more importantly, I am here as a (brief) fellow at the Open University, for the OER Research Hub project. I had some grandiose plans of daily blogging, let’s see how the first day goes. Today was getting to meet the team, […]
I typically tell people the ds106 Daily Create is something that should take less than 20 minutes per day, hence today I spent maybe 2.5 hours on mine. It’s not a rule, it’s a choice. Today’s one was special though. I am visiting David Kernohan and Vivien Rolfe in Bristol, and David’s son Ben is […]
creative commons licensed ( BY-SA ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Happy 86th Birthday, Dad, another one you missed. And how I miss you in this world. Actually the last one you had was your 75th. And we all knew it was the last. Because of that, I was there to watch him eat cake […]
Of all things, this story begins in Facebook, I place I scan but do not “like”. In the stream, one of my Australia friends shared a link to a story about coeliac disease, not something I usually read much about. UPDATE: Attribution won, see below. But I know that cutting board, knife, and lumpy loaf […]
This was the academic theme for today’s presentation at OER14 in Newcastle, UK by Rochelle Lockridge, Mariana Funes, and moi, “A DS106 thing happened on the way to the 3M Tech Forum“: DS106 (http://ds106.us/) is a computer science course in Digital Storytelling at the University of Mary Washington (UMW), framed on principles of the web […]
