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MI OER Keynote Text: The Art of Open Resources, Pedagogy, and Practice: a balancing act in three parts
I was asked to deliver the keynote address for the MI OER conference on Sept. 20th, 2024. This post is adapted from my notes after the talk. Some parts have been omitted or changed due to the format change. The references have been embedded as hypertext throughout the text and the longer reference list is…
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So Many Connections: Attending Data, Power, and Pedagogy
I’m excited to have been accepted to participate in Data, Power, and Pedagogy put on by HestiaLabs and Brown University’s Information Future’s Lab (IFL) running Sept. 27th – 29th in Providence, Rhode Island. It is the first professional development anything I have traveled to in person since the pandemic and I’m so happy that it…
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Is it possible to ban remote proctoring?
This post is co-authored and jointly published with Sarah Silverman ~~ The harms of remote proctoring have been so extensively documented that some educational institutions have now instituted formal recommendations or policies against using remote proctoring. But, is it possible to ban remote proctoring on campus? We have found that even when these decisions are…
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Digital Citizenship Digital Environments Digital Identity Live Streaming Media Studies Surveillance Virtually ConnectingThe Zoom Gaze
Note: On December 7th I expanded my thinking on the concept of the Zoom Gaze into a full-length article with Real Life Magazine which you can find here https://reallifemag.com/the-zoom-gaze/ I’ve been doing video conferencing pretty intently since 2016 in connection with my Virtually Connecting work. This work has been technical, social, and critical. It has…
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Evolving Digital Identity – The “Real Life” of watching and being watched
This post is around the #DigPINS Pedagome “Identity” week. I want to just sort of riff on my own about some personal experience so forgive me for not doing a map or otherwise following the prompt. I’ve long been interested in the impact of environment on identity but I recently took on a little personal…
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What Do We Owe Students When We Collect Their Data – a response
It has been a few weeks since we issued our #DigCiz call for thoughts on the question “What do we owe students when we collect their data?” and there have been a few responses. The call is in conjunction with the interactive presentation at the EDUCAUSE Annual Conference that I’ll be helping to facilitate with…
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Digital Citizenship Digital Environments Digital Identity Digital Networks Digital Pedagogy Digital Scholarship DigPINS Open Education Rhizomatic Learning#OpenEd18 Lightning Talk: #DigPINS, We are Open … But sometimes closed
I’ve made it to Open Ed 2018 and I’m excited to present a lightning talk on Friday at 3:30 – 3:45 with Sundi Richard and Joe Murphy on our collaborations with #DigPINS. If you are at the conference please consider coming by and if you are not I’m hoping this blog post will give you…
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Privacy and Security in DoOO: First attempt at student resource
It has been a wild few months and it feels like there are a lot of things happening at once. I’m thrilled that at St. Norbert we have gotten our Domains project off of the ground and I’m talking about and working with domains more than ever – which is wonderful. However, a few months…
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Digital Citizenship Digital Identity Digital Pedagogy Digital Scholarship Domain of One’s Own Open Web PrivacyDesigning for Privacy with DoOO: Reflections after DPL
The thinking for this post comes on the tail end of Digital Pedagogy Lab (DPL) where, despite not being enrolled in any of the data or privacy offerings, concerns of student data and privacy rang loud in my ears. This came from various conversations but I think it really took off after Jade Davis’ keynote…
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Platform Literacy in a Time of Mass Gaslighting – Or – That Time I Asked Cambridge Analytica for My Data
Digital Citizenship and Curiosity In the beginning of 2017 I first discovered Cambridge Analytica (CA) through a series of videos that included a Sky News report, some of their own advertising, as well as a presentation by their CEO Alexander Nix. I found myself fascinated by the notion that big data firms, focused on political advertising,…