social learning, open education, and petty battles with rivals over power and money…
From the monthly archives:
As usual I was MIA as a conference weblogger, and already I feel compelled to turn my attention to the mounting piles of tasks spilling over all over my desktop. So please forgive the mess — it’s late, I’m torn and frayed, but I want to get a few things down before the event [...]
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When I woke up Thursday morning, I thought about editing or even deleting my ‘bum steer’ post… not because my feelings had changed, but because I recognised my tone was too raw, and that in my rush to post I had neglected some points. But the comments had already begun to flow in, so [...]
OK, I’ve calmed down a bit since the previous dash of hyperventilating prose. I appreciate the comments from Jon, Gardner, Steve and Dave Sifry (dude moves fast, I doubt I’m in his aggregator)… I probably should have waited before responding to Jon’s post, but as is all too apparent, this sort of problem is [...]
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A common frustration for me is that in my role as ‘facilitator’ and evangelist of the small pieces approach is that I really don’t have the chops to make serious mojo happen on my own — I have always depended on the kindness of techies. The frustrations usually take the form of some technical [...]
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For the next few days I’m going to be crashing the Open Education Conference here in Logan, Utah. This is the third sharable content event in roughly as many years here for me… and the way that it has evolved over that time is itself interesting. The first IT Institute was something of [...]
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I just received the following email invitation for a conference I am attending next month. The text (and symbols too — hope they render in your browser/reader) reads:
Don’t miss Heat Up the Street, a sizzlin’ EDUCAUSE street party at the UNIVERSAL CITYWALK Entertainment Complex®. You’ll have your pick of the walk’s venues, with food, [...]
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I was happy to see that UbuWeb, perhaps the single most awe-inspiring repository of avant-garde artifacts anywhere on the web, has relaunched after a summer of rebuilding. I’m looking forward to diving into some of the Glenn Gould radio broadcasts that have just been posted.
An interesting aside relating to IP and Ubu’s attempts to [...]
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That’s right, another two-fisted episode of Northern Voice is in production. The first go-round was a blast, and I couldn’t be happier to be working again with the organizers. We’ll be doing it at UBC Robson Square, in downtown Vancouver, February 10-11th 2006.
We’ve tried to grow the event gently, without losing the informal [...]
The picture above represents the “to-do” lists for a couple of courses that we are supporting this semester. (Thankfully in both cases, most of these to-do’s are ta-done.) In each case, we are setting up weblogs for each student, as well as for the instructor. Simple enough. Where things get a [...]
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Today is the first day of the fall term at UBC, I suppose it is all over. The shift from a sleepy, near-empty summertime campus to one now overrun by the onrushing hordes is always something of a shock to the system — and the longer lineups for the bus, for food, for anything [...]
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