I’m thinking of Jerry’s note this morning (happy to see him signed up for Camp Magic Macguffin) “@lukew: “an artist understands that self-renewal is the only way to avoid burning out.””looking at #ds106 as a self-renewal project. — Jerry Slezak (@jslezak) May 22, 2012 With the startup of our online class, I worry about letting […]
cc licensed ( BY NC SA ) flickr photo shared by febbrile This is about as close as I might get to a reflection on my first round of teaching an on site section of ds106 at the University of Mary Washington- the class had barely wrapped and we were off into prep for Faculty […]
Lost in the shuffle of activity last week was a May 18 milestone; that day marked 20 years of my edtech career, the day I started my job as “programmer analyst/instructional systems” at the Maricopa Community Colleges. Wow was I green, but also a sponge. After my immersion of system culture at an Ocotillo retreat […]
If you are looking for a post about MOOCs or techie stuff, come back another day. Today was… well I don’t have to say much beyond
Motherless children have a hard time
When the mother is gone
Motherless children have a hard time
When the mother is goneMotherless children have a hard time
There’s all that weeping and all that crying
Motherless children have a hard time
When the mother is gone
My Mom passed away in late August of last year, in the middle of my road trip odyssey, transforming it from a plan to visit her in November to having to see her lowered into the ground in September and then cleaning out her house. Today was Matzevah, being the date my sisters and I had picked to unveil the tombstone marker for her, adjacent to the ones for my Dad and my brother at the old Baltimore Hebrew Cemetery in Baltimore.
Things are shaping up nicely for the summer course of ds106 I am co-teaching with Martha Burtis, we have been super busy supervising and doing a lot of the work at Camp Magic Mcguffin. If you have every mused about trying to take ds106 as an open participant, this is perhaps the best time, during […]
cc licensed ( BY ND ) flickr photo shared by hans s Based on the recommendation of Barbara Ganley (one of whom I would recommend following recommendations thereof) for the past few weeks I’ve been dabbling in Cowbird, an online storytelling platform that center heavily on photography as well as original writing. Cowbird is one […]
cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) flickr photo shared by Phil Romans Still back logging the Slices of Life audio reflections on my first round of teaching ds106, parsing back here to the last week of February, 2012. Slices of Life 15: The Leap We start first after class on Monday Feb 27. Today’s […]
cc licensed ( BY NC SA ) flickr photo shared by Kalexanderson Someone lend me a rope, I have fallen deep into one of those internet rabbit holes. It began as a simple “I’ll look this up in a few minutes” query. I’d seen this quote in at least 2 presentations: “images are processed 60,000 […]
cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by Sean MacEntee And we are done! Everyone from ds106 Section 2 at University of Mary Washington, take a bow. Here are the final project highlights. If a project is missing please let me know (at least 2 I know of are not able to be viewed […]
Just wanna stake my claim… Look for big announcement soon about CogDogx cause just like the ‘i” prefix of a few years ago, an “x” suffix is the new shnizzle — Alan Levine (@cogdog) December 30, 2011 Of course, the “big announcement” is 404, because I was just playing. But the “x” factor is going […]
