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भक्ति in the Time of MOOC and Yoga in the Open
This past week was the soft start to YogaMOOC. I jumped into the twitter stream, signed up for the edx side, and signed up to be a research subject. I’m also taking #OpenEdMOOC and it was week 3 this past week and I did not do a blog post. I’m combining some thoughts about both…
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Openness, Humanness, and Connectedness: or We can connect in the Open if you want to
In my last blog post I responded to the question “why does open matter” posed by #OpenEdMooc with the answer “because we are human” by proclaiming that open mattered because humans have a need to connect and because openness facilitates connectedness. I came across an interesting response to my post from Benjamin Stewart that I…
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Why Does Open Matter? because we are human
George Siemens and David Wiley have joined up to do a MOOC on Open Education and I feel as though, with my interest in the subject, I would be remiss if I did not at least dip my toe in… I always find myself intrigued by those big broad questions and the guys have not…
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Associative Trails Around DigCiz, Fake News, and Microtargeting
Microtargeting: A Digital Citizen’s Perspective I started writing this post about fake news and microtargeting a few days ago and then I was reminded that #OpenLearning17 was talking about Vannevar Bush’s As We May Think this week. I began to see connections between how they might relate. It made this post even longer but I…
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Further Defining LOOM: autonomous persistence in relation to ethos
I was asked to be part of a panel discussion at the Winter Symposium on Digital Literacies in Higher Education as a part of my work with Virtually Connecting. This time I not only had distance as a barrier but also time – I had a meeting scheduled at the same time. The panel was…
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#MyDigCiz as Critical Experimentation in Opposition to Best Practice: Self-Reflection After #DigPed PEI or why I thought you might care about my soup
It was 2007, I was just finishing up my BS degree in communication technology when I received a google alert on my name one day. Honestly, I had felt a little vain when I set it up but I saw how this could be helpful especially considering the uniqueness of my name. Someone had written…
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Now You’re Talk’in My Language: a #rhizo16 preface | or A Case for Interest in a World of Resilience
Yet philosophies of esthetics have often set out from one factor that plays a part in the constitution of experience, and have attempted to interpret or “explain” the esthetic experience by a single element; in terms of sense, emotion, reason, of activity; imagination itself is viewed not as that which holds all other elements in…
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In Defense of Kindness in the Rhizome: A complex balance of many often opposing forces
“Reality is subjective, and there’s an unenlightened tendency in this culture to regard something as ‘important’ only if ‘tis sober and severe. Sure and still you’re right about your Cheerful Dum, only they’re not so much happy as lobotomized. But your Gloomy Smart are just as ridiculous. When you’re unhappy, you get to pay a…
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Staking My Claim for #Western106
Howdy partners!!! It’s true, I’ve decided to take part in the next iteration of #DS106 – #Western106!! It is the latest iteration of DS106 and it is going to start on January 11th! I’m going to see who I can rustle up to have some fun with us and do some learning with me. If you wanna…
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To Err is Human: Listening, Forgiving and Forgetting
It t’was the MOOC before Christmas And through the interwebs All the creatures were stirring and… … I actually found it kind of hard to keep up with everything but that was ok. (I know that part doesn’t rhyme – I’m not that kind of poet) It’s not every year one gets a Graduation Solstice…