Last night, in 2014, Tim and I sat in his living room in Eugene reminiscing how we first connected. We both are fuzzy on the timing, but are pretty sure it was 1994. And it was via the internet. No apps. mobile devices, social networks. It was via a listserv. Around this time I was […]
creative commons licensed ( BY-SA ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog I’m reading with warm nostalgia Andy Carvin’s celebrating 20 years ago today, I published my first website. But the real epiphany came afterwards. Andy did this as a post-grad internship, studying telecommunications policy and finding his way into the early Cambrian era of the […]
Through more twitter conversations with Maha Bali, my memory cells rekindled an early web project I did while working at the Maricopa Center for Learning & Instruction (Maricopa Community Colleges). I might boast that I built something to help a faculty member blog (there ought to be some scare quotes). I’d really forgotten this, but […]
A tweet from someone (sorry there goes my weak citation) led my to Mike Wesch’s Learning Worth Crying About: For those of you who watched my most recent talk, Learning as soul-making, you know that I have become interested in moments of profound transformation and growth among students that I call “Learning worth crying about.” […]
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 […]
Jim Groom’s explorations for The Internet Course he is co-teaching with Paul Bond and Paul’s post on Gopher got me sroting the neurons and combing through the archives of my early 1990s days as an Instructional Technologist at the Maricopa Community College. Actually I started as a “Programmer Analyst / Instructional Systems”. I found on […]
A photography friend is making a trip to the Salton Sea, and I was trying to remember the name of this odd place I had heard about nearby that was worth recommending. Except I forgot its name. The thing I did remember is that a participant in a workshop I helped with back in 2004 […]
cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Yeah, even in the early days it was all about sex online… No it wasn’t, that was the unfortunate “special theme” for this September 1996 issue of “the net” magazine. I found this mint copy, along with the CD-ROM, in my Box of Old Job […]
I’m tired and ought to be resting a throat that is rumbling soreness, but a hearth of nostalgia is welling up reading Mike Caulfied’s memories of his experience if Big Learning Objects Gone South– my title, his is The Coming Golden Age of Open Educational Simulations. Mike talks about his time of golden glory years […]
cc licensed flickr photo shared by The Rocketeer Who ever thought the word “repository” was a good idea? C’mon, nearly every one’s connotations go elsewhere and sure, I’m going to be encouraged to go add something (or fond something) I created to something that sounds like something that goes up your butt? But I digress. […]
