In scanning the Thoughtvectors blogs and twitter stream, a lot of students/participants are well on their way starting their Inquiry Projects. But should anyone be in search of one, I have one I started a while ago, that is free for anyone to run with. It is almost a year since last reporting on the […]
This was totally inspired by Ben Rimes cover of “Imagine” for those #notAtISTE @cogdog Apparently it's a big conference? I'm doing a few other things instead of going 🙂 https://t.co/LgiFygXMfX — Ben Rimes (@techsavvyed) June 27, 2014 On reflecting up on this, I was moved to mention I’ve never been to ISTE (technically incorrect, I […]
There is no shortage of online tutorials and guides on how to search for images on the web. To overly generalize, this boils down to “here is a list of sites, go there and type your keywords in a box”, with the added bits about how stealing is bad and a few links or videos […]
I intend not to discuss the merits/demons of badging systems. My main response on weighing such questions always slide down to “It Depends”. But to me badging, nanodegreeing, calculating massive course dropouts remains overweighted on one side of the system. This has been mulling in the cranium for a while (often best where ideas are […]
The trails of distraction. If I worked for anyone else besides myself, I might get fired for my wanderings. This all started at lunch time, I noticed I had about six oranges in my fridge, and that also I was out of orange juice. I thought I would take a few moments to squeeze them […]
Just in case you have not had your fill of the previous two code dumps for the workings of the VCU Thought Vectors site… heres more. I can’t stop tinkering. Last weekend Jon Becker emailed and asked if there was “an easy way” to mix together all of the RSS feeds from his students blog […]
creative commons licensed ( BY-SA ) flickr photo shared by RiverRatt3 Given a smooth rollout (as far as I can tell) for the Connected Learning MOOC Make Bank, I’m wrapping for now the work on the ds106 Assignment Bank WordPress Theme, having just updated the internal options documentation and the github Readme. The project that […]
I know that zombie culture is a thing, that in pop culture they signify our fears, dystopia, sense of future worry. But personally I just don’t find them interesting. They are pretty one-dimensional (by design?), they likely are never developed as characters, and they always lose. This was meant more as a conversational poke, not […]
Natalie Bookchin created this interpretation of Jorge Luis Borges story The Intruder (1966) —
 a grim tale of prostitution, fraternal jealousy, and violence against women in which two brothers fall in love with the same woman, share her, and sell her to a brothel. The narrative ends with the woman’s murder and the brothers’ reconciliation.
Yes, kids, there was educational technology before the web. And it was shiny. I was reminded of this particular disc and rummaged for it (a thought vector-ish associative trail) from a post by Mike Caulfield mentioning a paleotechnic system called TICCIT. This was before my time, but when I started as a green horn educational […]
