From the monthly archives:

April 2009

OPEN, originally uploaded by mag3737.
I’ve had a few people tell me that while they hope to attend the Open Education Conference (August 12-14 in the shockingly delightful city of Vancouver), they are not sure that their own work or interests qualify as sufficiently ‘open’ to submit a proposal themselves. I’ve been a little surprised to [...]

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Ladies and Gentlemen….

April 17, 2009

There’s been a fair bit of buzz on Twitter this week about The Coh, some about his ongoing “give me a new nestegg” tour (which I personally can’t afford to top up), some about the music…
The National Film Board has posted some classic Cohen recently, the magnificent Ladies and Gentlemen… Mr. Leonard Cohen. If you [...]

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It’s going to be one hot summer here in Vancouver, as I am thrilled to be one of the co-organizers of the 6th Annual Open Education Conference, hosted by UBC at its downtown Robson Square campus, August 12-14. OpenEd has been one of my absolute favorite events for a number of years, and I can’t [...]

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Photo by Julio Albarrán
[Audio clip: view full post to listen]
Yeah, I’m losing my edge.
I’m losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
It’s been more than a week since I came home from the Symposium on Expanded Education hosted by the ZEMOS98 collective in Seville, Spain. My failure to blog about it does not reflect [...]

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as ye sow, originally uploaded by Shira Golding.

I have about five blog posts of my own stacked up in my mental queue, but I can’t resist pointing at Martin Weller’s latest. I really admire Martin’s gift for expressing complex and important observations in simple, often elegant terms:

I have come to believe that your personal learning [...]

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