I’m not going to shake the magic 8 ball or come up with a list of really insightful surprise predictions for 2012. Instead I’m attempting @cogdog’s new #ds106 assignment to illustrate something meaningful out of random words. ReCaptcha Predictions! This is the equivalent of reading the random tea leaves at the bottom of your cup.… Read More: ReCaptcha Predictions for 2012 »
Must. Make. DOG. GIF. ASAP! Why must I make a dog gif? Well, let me take you on a journey through my thought process. As you may know, I have already written how much I love photograph nostalgia like Dear Photograph. Yesterday my friend emailed me a link to Back to the Future. Be still… Read More: My Dog, My Muse »
Having exhausted everyone in my physical proximity, I was sitting around this weekend just hoping someone would ask me about DS106. #ds106 folk help me out. @jimgroom & I need short video clips telling me what made #ds106 special, powerful, fun, different etc. Anyone? — Tom Woodward (@twoodwar) November 20, 2011 Oh, Tom, I’m so… Read More: How DS106 Changed My Life »
This week’s #change11 facilitator is Dave Cormier, talking about Rhizomatic Learning – Why We Learn. I saw him present at the University of Guelph #eportfolio week earlier this year. I know that as the Manager, Web Communications and Innovations at Prince Edward Island University he is well versed in the pragmatist view of a bureaucratic… Read More: Rhizome Remix »
I have a renewed sense of vigour about injustice, irony and absurdity after being recharged from the electric energy emanating out of Utah and the OpenEd conference. The Twitterz and The Blogs are lit up with
Trying to document a very small piece of learning from my challenge to @dkernohan for our new-non-existent-but-hopefully-will-be-created-soonUPDATE: EXISTing make-a-wish-MOOC #econoMOOC. “price deflation can be fought by dropping money out of a helicopter” Friedman, M. money photo cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by AMagill and Helicopter from Apocalypse Now Looking at Milton Friedman… Read More: Monetarism »
When I first read Michael Feldstein’s post about DS106: Can Enlightenment Scale, I sincerely believed that when he used the term gadfly he actually meant it as a compliment. cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) flickr photo shared by t_buchtele In teacher’s college, we were asked to write a philosophy of education statement. I… Read More: Atomic Enlightened Gadflies »
It is Open Access Week and I’ve been listening intently to the proceedings around the world. In particular, I’ve been listening to my friends and colleagues broadcast DS106Radio from the Open Education 2011 Conference in Utah. This morning Jim Groom presented #OccupyOpenEd11, a brilliant talk available in audio and video format. It highlighted the phenomenal… Read More: Open Education »
As Jim Groom documented, he, Grant Potter and GNA Garcia broadcasted #ds106radio from ContactCon in NYC this week. The Free Network at ContactCon cc licensed ( BY NC SD ) flickr photo shared by grant.potter I was reading petervan’s post Cry for Freedom and it reminded me that I had archived a bit of Reverend… Read More: Reverend Billy’s #contactcon choir »
I’m pleased as punch that I got another chance to find out What is Inside the StoryBox? Call it an artistic provocation, call it an “expression of the copyleft impulse, great example of an ephemeral phenomenon” or just PirateBox, as its creator does. David Darts describes it: “Pirate Box is a self-contained mobile communication and… Read More: StoryBox @BrockUniversity »