https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHDy_b33cCQ Google Hangouts are an amazingly useful experience of online collaboration; if you told me 7 years ago this capability would be free I would have shushed you away. In the three or so I have done this week (one one that starts in 25 minutes), it does feel like the first time every visit, […]
creative commons licensed ( BY-NC-ND ) flickr photo shared by maury.mccown While many people do seem to know of the Mozilla Foundation’s efforts to Teach the Web, at the same time, many don’t. Besides a great set of tools (Thimble, Popcorn Maker, X-Ray Googles) they are building out a raft of resources, teaching kits and […]
Before there was a dwarf from Middle Earth (or least before he was penned to Lord of the Rings), Gimli, or “New Iceland” has been there by Lake Winnipeg in Manitoba, Canada. Thanks to some colleagues, I had a chance to spend some time there as an invited speaker for the Riding the Waves of […]
Yeah, c’mon When the course is over When the course is over, yeah When the course is over Keep on the blogs Keep on the blogs Keep on the blogs, yeah For the blog is your special friend Keep on feeding as it intends Blog is your only friend Until the end Until the end […]
Mmmmm, the taste of one’s own dog food. creative commons licensed ( BY-SA ) flickr photo shared by Jordan Batch I saw in the twitters that Alec Couros got stranded at Chicago O’Hare airport on Monday. Having spent a #NightAtORD last year creative commons licensed ( BY-SA ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog I suggested […]
Material for an eventual True Story of Open Sharing, my photo is on the cover of Beautiful Wreck a novel by Larissa Brown. In a bleak future built on virtual reality, Ginn is a romantic who yearns for something real. She designs environments for people who play at being Vikings. But when her project goes […]
creative commons licensed ( BY-NC-SA ) flickr photo shared by bigcityal … for planning my schedule shall be fired. What was I thinking? I returned home from London after two weeks in the UK attending the OER14 conference and a visit to the Open University (plus a nice weekend in Bristol With David Kernohan and […]
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. creative commons licensed ( BY-SA ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Sian Proctor teaches Geology at South Mountain Community College, […]
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 […]
