A smidgen over a month ago I wrote about a take down notice I received regarding my use of the “Amazing Stories” brand of magazine for some past presentation resources I have done aimed at highlighting the magic of what happens on the web when you freely, openly, (and not xMOOCily) share. And yes, while […]
cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Here is a super appreciation thanks to Brian Lamb for asking me to do a reprise of Amazing Stories of Openness last presented a year ago at for the CTLT Summer Institute at UBC, part of a panel session called Going Public Into the Great […]
As a followup to the May 2011 version of Amazing Stories of Openness, I got an email a few weeks back from Wendy Farmer with a nice post script. Her story was about a blog she had created with her kids to write about dinosaurs and how they connected with a professional paleontologist (click through […]
cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog To trod a word into the ground of repetition, my trip to Nelson BC was…. cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by tuppus … for many reasons. The excuse was to present at and attend the ETUG (Educational Technology Users Group) Spring workshop. […]
I’m releasing a day early the collection of Amazing Stories of Openness I will show tomorrow at the opening of the ETUG Spring Workshop in Nelson, BC. These are just the videos, for the session, I have a few surprises up my sleeve, and may even gamble on doing a chunk of this w/o any […]
In preparation for a presentation I will do June 2 for the ETUG meeting in Nelson BC, I have been collecting a new series of "Amazing Stories". On my recent trip to the east coast, I snagged a series of new ones from friends and colleagues I visited. And this will be a dress rehearsal […]
I’m doing a third round of Amazing Stories of Openness, as an invited keynote for the Spring ETUG Workshop (June 2-3 in what is usually described as “lovely Nelson, BC) . An Amazing Story is you sharing an example of something unexpected that happened as a result of you sharing something on the open web- […]
I’m thinking a lot about my plan to be on the road 4 months starting in June- I’ve carved out a corner of the blog site here to be my record for what I call my “odyssey” (one positive outcome is I can consistently spell that word correctly) — http://cogdogblog.com/odyssey. While I could have made […]
This one ought to be added to the Amazing Stories of Sharing, all enabled via flickr photosharing. cc licensed ( BY NC ) flickr photo shared by windsordi Back in December, I posted a photo of some really solid oak that had been split for me (it was like iron) cc licensed ( BY ) […]
Here is my newest Amazing Story of Sharing of 2010 (not THE newest, because they are happening all the time). Last week I wrote of an unsolicited message from Michael Paskevicius of the University of Cape Town OER Project, eager to share the story of an open resource shared by Matumo Ramafikeng, a teacher at […]
