social learning, open education, and petty battles with rivals over power and money…
From the monthly archives:
The NV edublogger crew had all drifted off from Van Rock City by midday Sunday, and I confess to something that felt like empty nest syndrome. Bereft, with a massive sleep debt, a few cold frosty beverages, a back deck, blazing Vancouver sunshine(!) and a huge amount of information to process.
My spirits were lifted [...]
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Scott Reads RSS Poetry, originally uploaded by cogdogblog.
Scott Leslie (whose own Northern Voice reflection is a must-read) had an awful slot for the Friday night Wiki-Tiki party open mic. He was something like the fifteenth [...]
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It seems that every year I sit down to write the post-mortem for Northern Voice and find myself at an absolute loss. This event is such a toxic cocktail of ideas, energy, urgency, depravity, laughter, logistics, friendship, and chronic sleep-deprivation that (my) words simply fail me.
So I’m telling myself that over the next couple weeks [...]
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NV08 Keynote, originally uploaded by mastermaq.
… cuz I’m too busy grooving on Northern Voice.
The story is emerging on the blogs, and on the Flickr stream.
Tag: northernvoice
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UBC Library book retrieval system, originally uploaded by stodmyk.
This nifty Creative Commons-licensed photo is of UBC Library’s Automated Storage and Retrieval System. It’s part of the newly rebuilt Main Library at UBC. From what I understand, I’ll be moving my base of operations for professional misconduct back to this building next month as the Irving [...]
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At The Very Heart Of Where The Action Is, originally uploaded by drp.
Stephen Downes mentions that David Wiley’s Wordpress-based OpenCourseWare proof of concept mixed with one of Tony Hirst’s many bits of rich, RSS-flavoured open [...]
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It’s not a revolutionary proposition that a blog platform can be a low-cost, low-stress means of hosting course materials. The argument was moved along nicely by a session Jim and D’Arcy did at last year’s Open Education Conference, and many other voices in the blogosphere have offered up such notions.
So David Wiley’s proof of concept [...]
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Faust / Faust, originally uploaded by bradleyloos.
[Suggested soundtrack for this post, LCD Soundsystem's amusing ode to musical obscurity and idolatry, with ruminations on formats, "Losing My Edge"]
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CharlesV – LCD Soundsystem – Losing My Edge
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A lot of linkage has justifiably gone towards Kevin Kelly’s post “Better than [...]
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Northern Voice Poster FINAL DESIGN, originally uploaded by basco5.
Once again, Northern Voice has met our attendance targets. You can add your name to our waitlist wiki. We also have a small number of openings for [...]
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So not only am I struggling to do what Stephen Downes did more than four years ago, now I can’t even do what I did myself two years ago.
It should be a simple problem. Assemble a list of thirty or so student weblogs, allowing them to choose their own platforms, and create a reasonably readable [...]
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