Comments on: Open Education Wrap-up

By: Judy Breck

Judy Breck — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 19:45:14 +0000

Brian, thanks. I hope our paths cross again soon. Meanwhile, I am glad to find your blogself and have added abject learning to my RSS and blogroll.

I agree about JSB’s generosity. I don’t know him well but he has shown me every kindness – a great guy along with the giant stuff.

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 19:28:10 +0000

Daniel, do drop a URL for DIVA when it’s ready… it looked promising. I should have been clearer in my post — JSB’s friendly tap was more indicative of his open and generous nature than the quality of my talk. I was really impressed by how open and accessible he was to everyone — he genuinely seemed to be there to learn, which is in my experience uncommon for these start speaker types.

I don’t think any of your other discussion points are approporiate for a family-oriented, professional weblog — so I hope we can pick them up again sometime in person (preferably at an event without an 8 AM start time).

Judy — I too wish we could have chatted a bit. The book looks most cool, congratulations!

By: Judy Breck

Judy Breck — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 11:13:17 +0000

JSB has given me a foreword for my new book “109 IDEAS for Virtual Learning” (to be available from Rowman & Littlefield Education 02/06). The foreword is much along the lines of the talk he gave for us at the Open Education Conference. I LOVE your post because it gives me a sense that I’ve got not a vanilla foreword but a terrific Rock Session to intro what I’ve said in the book!

I don’t know if we crossed paths in those stimulating hallways and now regret missing your session. Seems to me that at least at some level, getting away from “feeling like print” and JSB’s socialization of knowledge instead of education as usual are in the same concert hall.

By: Daniel Koepke

Daniel Koepke — Sun, 02 Oct 2005 01:24:39 +0000

Brian,

Thanks for mentioning DIVA and the strangely lucid conversation we had about patterns. (I’d hand you a URL for DIVA, but I’m just a programmer. I’ve no idea where our promotional materials are.) But I must ask: has modesty reached epidemic proportions up north?

You’ve neglected to mention the Infinite Pilsner Glass won merely by your charm and good looks. I, for one, wasn’t fooled by the (probably empty) bill you coerced Keith, our lovestruck waiter, to deliver.

Worse, at our soirée on Thursday (bleeding into Friday), you made out that your session had been mediocre, if not disasterous. You didn’t mention you’d been flipped off (and here us San Franciscans were tittering about only one person walking out on our session!), and you didn’t mention you’d been knighted by King John afterwards. Face it, you’re a rockstar.

Anyway, thanks for adding a layer of awesomeness to a pretty good conference, and for making me think about a few things I’d so far managed to ignore. (Hell, I didn’t even know the Phoenix Coyotes used to be the Winnipeg Jets. Can you forgive me?) I’m really regretting missing your session.