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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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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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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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#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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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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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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#OLCInnovate Fishbowl: So what’s Virtually Connecting all about anyway?
This Tuesday through Friday, June 19th – 22nd, I will be attending, presenting, and Virtually Connecting at the OLC Innovate conference in New Orleans. I’m excited to take the lead on our presentation Fishbowl: So what’s Virtually Connecting all about anyway? on Thursday the 21st at 11:15 am in Oak Alley (4th floor) of the…
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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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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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My Virtual Life: becoming a real buddy with a nod to the Velveteen Rabbit
‘Does it hurt?’ asked the Rabbit. ‘Sometimes,’ said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. ‘When you are Real you don’t mind being hurt.’ What does it mean to be human? What does it mean to be virtual? Over the last year I spent a lot of time expanding my virtual self. Now, I had…