Category Archives: Abject Learning

Fall term is here, which means my first full-time teaching gig in five years is underway. So far we’re still in the introductory phase, but even that’s been most cool — the participants are literally all over the world (far … Continue reading →

I’ve spent the past three days at the Instructional Technology Institute Conference at Utah State. I feel bad about my lack of blogging during that time — though not that bad, as I needed to finish my presentation and I’m … Continue reading →

As if I wasn’t busy enough trying to drive learning object and social software projects into the ground, this fall I’ll be an instructor for a course entitled Text technologies: the changing spaces of reading and writing. Quoting the description: … Continue reading →

As you may have guessed, this weblogger has been on holidays. I’ll be away from ready Internet access until July 12 — and at that point will begin wading through the onslaught of unanswered queries and commands that have already … Continue reading →

June 17th is here, which means that our presentation for the NMC 2004 Summer Conference, Small Pieces Loosely Joined: Fast, Cheap and Out of Control is only hours away from launch. I don’t want to spend too much time typing … Continue reading →

It may seem like nothing is happening here, but the horrifying reality is there’s too much happening at once. In addition to the normal workload (involving three different half-day workshops to deliver in three days, among other things), I’ve taken … Continue reading →

I like this line from today’s OLDaily… One of the oldest rules of technology is this: people will use technology in ways it was never intended to be used. Futurists fail endlessly to predict the impact of technology because they … Continue reading →

I had no idea this degree of customization was possible, though it sounds like the technology was supplemented by a significant degree of elbow-grease… The idea surfaced a year ago at a cocktail party: What if you opened your mailbox … Continue reading →

I just got this exciting news delivered to my RSS reader: Coming: Beta Geminorum (22 hours away) Beta Geminorum is 33.7 light years away and only 22 hours from the outer surface of your light cone – your ever-growing sphere … Continue reading →

This weblog has not enjoyed the protection of the MT-Blacklist plugin for a few weeks… I hadn’t bugged my host about it because he obviously has bigger fish to fry these days, and I knew he’d get around to it … Continue reading →