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Welcome to D3 – Domains, Data, and Democracy: with special thanks to agency, identity, and environment
On May 20th I was invited to speak at St. Norbert College’s D3 – Domains, Data, and Democracy conference and deliver a welcome address. The post that follows is the text I worked from to deliver that address reworked just a bit – the biggest add was the addition of hyperlinks. The slide deck is…
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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 Identities and “Real” Selves
Well, we are drawing on the end of week 1 around the prompt for Digital Identity in our #DigPINS group and I thought I would check in about my own thoughts on the topic. As a facilitator of the community I can’t promise I’ll have the bandwidth to blog with everyone for every week but digital identity…
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Thoughts on Sync Video Conversations
It has been a while since I’ve posted – I’ve been dealing with a bit of writer’s block. Theoretically, politically, philosophically my mind is racing too fast and I can’t seem to get any of it down. To try to break the block I’m going to set it all aside and go for a simple…
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When Free Beer Leaves Me Cold: Declaring Interest in #OpenLearning17
I’m super excited that some of my favorite Virginia educators have gotten together to do a cMOOC! #OpenLearning17 started today and I’m so thrilled to follow along and learn with a great community. The syllabus says this week is for introductions, blogs, and working with a connected learning coach. There is also a great reading all…
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#codesign16 #ngdle: a response with pauses and concerns
So, JISC is asking for those of us in the field of edtech to envision what the next digital learning environment will look like. I don’t usually respond to these kind of things. I’m always cautious about futures, I love to imagine but I also know the power of giving voice to things and I…
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Would You Like a Receipt with That? Could read receipts be making us lazy empathizers?
A few months ago I asked some folks that I would backchannel regularly with on Facebook if we could move to another platform. I like Facebook but I found that I was spending too much time there. Someone would message me and often I would retrieve the message using my computer rather than my phone…
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LOOM’in Large (or perhaps small) at T3 and NMC16
I call them Autummisms. These little ways that I process the world. They are ever growing and changing. They are in-process and; not complete. So… take this for what it is worth. I’m going to warn you up front – it is an acronym and Yes there are two O’s in the middle. Now, how…
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Why do we do blended learning?
The following is the transcript of a short lighting talk that I just gave at work during our eLearning Showcase entitled Why do we do blended learning? Slides are at the bottom. ~~~~~ So, if you knew my writing at all you would know that I am fond of disclaimers and this talk is no…
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High-Tech or High-Touch? Lit Review of CIC Research Brief for PAR Project
I have started a Participatory Action Research (PAR) project around blended learning at my university. I have never facilitated a PAR project before so I may be going about it the wrong way but I have a group and we are now collectively discussing what the research questions should be and soliciting documents from one another…