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Is a space
For some time now I’ve used “Is a liminal space” as my tagline and it has always intrigued me how people latch on to the word “liminal” in that little phrase. Asking me what it means and why I identify with it. Fewer folks point out that people are not spaces and that spaces, though…
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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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Becoming, Making, and How Do We Do Equity: some quick thoughts as an informal lit review
I was given a pretty cool opportunity last week to think with some pretty cool people about equitable design of digitally-distributed, studio-based STEM learning environments (think makerspaces – but at the same time destroy you idea of makerspaces and rebuild it to mean something more… at least that is what I ended up doing). It…
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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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#DigCiz Reflections and a #DigPed Workshop
We just wrapped up a month long #DigCiz conversation and it was really unlike any of the others. It was bigger for one thing. I was informally running Twitter stats in the background and we consistently had between 200-400 people for any given week. Not massive by any means but growing. Though it was bigger…