social learning, open education, and petty battles with rivals over power and money…
From the monthly archives:
It’s too late for me to write a proper recap of the day, and I barely have two synapses to rub together. But experience has taught me that overviews best be captured quickly. Hopefully I can follow up on a few things later.
Our session Beyond the Blog went as well as [...]
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And where, oh where is Kate?
Counterintuitive as it seems, I can’t shake the hunch that my arrival in San Diego for the ELI Annual Meeting brings me closer to solving these mysteries.
* As an aside, being a barely literate Canadian from the Great White North, I confess that when I hear “iced nosh” my thoughts [...]
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Well, after all my anxiety the talk at the Vancouver Public Library went pretty well. One of the biggest audiences I’ve spoken to, and definitely one of the most diverse. We had people like Richard Eriksson in the front row, and we had a fair contingent of people who were only barely [...]
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YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!
It’s all my fault.
For the past week or two, Alan and I (OK, mostly Alan) have been labouring in obscurity constructing our presentation for next week’s ELI Annual Meeting. Though I’ve mostly been whining here about my talk at the library tonight, in a sense this [...]
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One of the points I often make when I go into my blogvangelist mode is how over time weblogging helps you to develop a network of peer experts, who act as filters and analysts for a range of subjects that no person can hope to keep up with on their own.
I tend to think of [...]
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One of the best outcomes of my unit’s reorganization has been the opportunity to work a little more closely with the instructional designers who develop distance education courses. One of those designers, Tannis Morgan has posted a set of useful screencasts on the academically-oriented social bookmarking system CiteULike. Definitely worth a look.
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You never know what might happen when you make a blanket appeal for feedback, such as I did in the run-up to the blogs and wikis talk tomorrow night at the VPL. People are busy, and I asked some deceptively difficult questions.
I’m simply overwhelmed by the responses I’ve gotten back. Within minutes I [...]
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This one is dedicated to my enemies, who are legion.
In conjunction with the library talk that is (gulp) tomorrow, I was invited to do a short interview this morning on Vancouver’s Co-op Radio Station. Nice to be asked, though I happen to know more people who have shows on the Co-op station than people [...]
Canada is a richer, more vibrant country today. And no, I’m not referring to yesterday’s election which, while it easily could have been worse, sure as hell could have been a whole lot better.
In between meetings downtown this morning it was my pleasure to watch our good friend Rocio’s oath of citizenship [...]
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I’ve spent part of the day showing my battered Powerbook some love – added a pile of RAM (huge difference) and installing Tiger.
A bunch of my Mail messages from my previous version (all before Jan 16) have gone missing, alas. I did a backup not too far back, so the loss should not absolutely [...]
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