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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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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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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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Going Clear: A Call for Conversation around the Ethics of Mobile Live Streaming from #OER17 and Other Events
Last year I read Dave Eggers’ The Circle, a dystopian novel about technology, social media, and society gone wrong. By the end of the novel the lead character is engaging in a process called “going clear” where she is live streaming her entire life save sleeping and going to the bathroom. It is pretty creepy.…
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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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Call for Participation and Introducing #fyschat
George Station and I are both teaching first year seminars (fys) this term and we have been considering ways to collaborate. My class is called “digital citizenship” and his is “technology and society” but we are both asking questions about the role that connected and networked technology is playing in our various worlds and in education.…
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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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What is Digital Citizenship?: recap on week 1 and announcing week 2 of #DigCiz
Last week was the first round of conversations that we kicked off about digital citizenship. I started off by presenting on digital citizenship with my colleague Jim Kerr during Martin Luther King day at Capital. It was nice to have a foundation of what Jim had done last year when he presented this topic on…