Unlike D’Arcy and his family, who chose to emphasize the festive, even wholesome appeal of Halloween, way out here our own recognitions took on a darker, uncanny cast, spiraling into a maelstrom of the senses…
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From the monthly archives:
October 2005
Checking my referrer stats I was sent to the new (to me) weblog The Open Classroom (great title), which pointed me toward this nugget from the blog of proximal development (another dandy moniker):
…it occurred to me that I have stopped “marking” or “correcting” and started reading. I do not mean that my students are no [...]
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First I write a long-ish posting about my presentation at NERCOMP, and the event itself, and what a brilliant guy Bryan Alexander is, and how much I enjoyed the other speakers, and spice it up with copius details about long travel days that could not be interesting to anyone, but did pack a certain cathartic [...]
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All I have to do today is justify my continued existence at the University (preparing a detailed, itemized, budgeted account of projects and activities within the next hour or so), host an event featuring guests from the Open Source Learning Opportunities Group (and have them over for dinner afterward), finish up a pile of grading [...]
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As I mentioned last week, I was surprised by how many EDUCAUSE attendees were at least thinking about launching weblog projects on their campuses. They really should check out James Farmer’s reviews of multi-user blog tools. It does not claim to assess the whole field, and it’s not exactly a scientific process. [...]
After all my posturing, I ended up going to “Heat Up the Street”. A couple of people who apparently read this blog came up to me and asked: “I thought you said you were too cool for this.” Which I don’t think was exactly what I wrote, but I’ll take my lumps. [...]
My previous complaints about the weather, the hotel, urban planning, etc… no doubt make me seem like some sort of ingrate. I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention some valuable experiences here at EDUCAUSE.
Our pre-conference seminar on ePortfolios and Social Software went fairly well, though we were hamstrung a bit by time management (ie [...]
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The exhibit hall has lost none of its power to trigger strong emotional responses from me. You have to move fast to avoid being covered in branded schwag…
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In the run-up to the conference here in Orlando, I made a few bad jokes about the wisdom of heading to Florida during hurricane season. I was assured that the season had passed (that wasn’t my understanding, but what do I know?)…
Apparently not, with Wilma gaining strength overnight. I’ve been checking the pages [...]
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OK, I’m admittedly biased, and inclined to see just about everything Mr. Levine does as worthy of praise. But this is funny. And welcome.
Whither hype in the face of sarcasm? Only the credulous know for certain.
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