Wifi in K-12 schools in Victoria, BC specifically. There was so much twitter action, I had to collect what I could. The tweets are a bit out of order chronologically but I tried to make sense of the themes. I’ve been watching the debate brew over at http://wifiinschools.ca/ and while I believe that wifi is… Read More »
Evidence that learning cannot be contained within the boundaries of a course, I’ve taken a couple double takes reading both Audrey Watters’ and Mike Caulfield’s excellent critiques about Sugra Mitra and his Hole in the Wall project in India. Caulfield also tweeted a link to this excellent essay by Morozov touching on the topic of… Read More »
My Flickr stream and blog are filling up with these digital doodlings from conferences and meetings. I’ve made some pretty cool connections by doing these sketchnotes. One of my favourite connections dates back to May 2012, when I attended the University of Guelph’s Teaching, Learning and Innovation Conference. The Godfather of Adult Education, Stephen Brookfield… Read More »
Another great #etmooc session this eve. Audrey Watters dropped some awesome thought bombs. She posed some challenging questions, as we move beyond the analog manilla envelope (like her mom collected of her school artefacts) into the digital realm and quintillions of bytes are collected daily. How do students, teachers, administrators, schools, and governments decide who… Read More »
I was excited to be a guest in #ds106 this evening for Week 6: It’s All Designed. Of course, DS106 is not like any other MOOC and is not big on the M part of the MASSIVE, but its specialness is important to reiterate in this time of MOOC madness. I’m hoping some of the… Read More »
Lots of funny #ds106valentine caption assignments seizing the moment today. I know everyone is working hard on their #ds106 Valentine Day Caption Challenge http://t.co/GjZ8VxGq #ds106 #etmooc — Alan has x-ed to @cogdog@cosocial.ca (@cogdog) February 14, 2013 How could I not oblige? After watching smart librarians attempt to engage in civil, meaningful debate on twitter I… Read More »
There’s a lot to like about the EDCMOOC currently running in Coursera. It’s probably the closest thing I’ve seen to a cMOOC on an xMOOC platform. That said, the platform hinders its greatness. This course would be just about perfect if it existed entirely on the open web. Indeed, much of it does. I like… Read More »
First, check out the Mozilla Popcorn tutorial: You can click on Projects and REMIX an existing project. I modified this one in 20 seconds by changing the Google map to St.Catharines and the tweets to #Brocku: Here is slightly more extensive remix of the Buffy Vs Edward YouTube video, looking at the bureaucratic blockades Jonthan… Read More »
My post on permanence reminded me of this story I read back ages ago from Owning Your Own Shadow by Robert Johnson. All gifs are from the film, Baraka. Once upon a time, many moons ago in the middle of a tiny village there was a natural spring that flowed with the most magical water.… Read More »
Never gonna let you down… In a series of events that can only be described as a Rick Roll gone horribly wrong, my 13 year old is obsessed with Rick Astley. Which must be some kind of ultimate Rick Roll, I’m sure. For Christmas, she has requested an animated GIF of Rick and seeing as… Read More »