Author Archives: Jim

About Jim

Faculty Developer at Aurora College's Centre for Teaching and Learning

Test Getty Embed

Posted on 10 March 2014 by Jim

Lisa Lane Diigo-ed The Verge article about Getty Images’s new free embed licence. Here is the link to Getty’s page advertising the new service.  The embed code adds the appropriate credit – and will probably embed adverts and data collection … Continue reading →

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Rhizomatic Orality – conversation

Posted on 4 February 2014 by Jim

books is my most favouritest way of all to delightfully waste time – expecially “indulgent trash” (spies, mystery, & sci-fi). The premise, Is Books Making Us Stupid? (from week 4 of #Rhizo14 ) “just hit my berserk button.” (to quote … Continue reading →

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Rhizomatic Independence – Elusive

Posted on 29 January 2014 by Jim

Stephen Downes, reflecting in  OLDaily on a study of emotional affordances in a MOOC, urged “a need for participants to become more self-reflective.”   Yeah, I’ve been a butterfly, or a shallow root/spindly shoot popping up here and there, mostly in … Continue reading →

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Rhizomatic Pragmatism – a Contradiction?

Posted on 12 January 2014 by Jim

“When what’s on your cell phone is more important than what’s in the library, we’re challenged to say how do we do education differently, because if it’s about delivery of content, Google wins over teacher every day.” http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/yellowknife-parents-teachers-talk-education-renewal-1.2451853 GNWT director … Continue reading →

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Time Warp

Posted on 1 November 2013 by Jim

WARNING: Time spent in Digital Imaging bears no relationship to time the real world. In the last few weeks I’ve dived into three different projects for Adobe’s online *course, Digital Creativity in the Classroom. In each project, after spending a reasonable … Continue reading →

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Tolstoy …more

Posted on 26 October 2013 by Jim

My intention to blog Tolstoy’s War & Peace chapter-by-chapter in Dan Bergstein style got derailed.  War and Peace turns out to be a fascinating read.  I was all the way to chapter 5 before I remembered why I started reading … Continue reading →

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Oh, Why Not?

Posted on 12 September 2013 by Jim

Have been debating whether to register for POTCert again.  Tempting to keep my evenings for leisure until demands of work increase – as they surely will in another month.  Should I engage when in all likelihood I won’t complete all … Continue reading →

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Open letter to an online learner mistakenly self-identifying as a “dropout”

Posted on 24 May 2013 by Jim

As mentioned in a previous post, several colleagues joined me in the Coursera/University of Toronto course, “Aboriginal Worldviews and Education” back in February and March. (an excellent course by the way – fodder for another post) Our cohort tried to … Continue reading →

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Twitter Chatter

Posted on 24 February 2013 by Jim

This started as a FaceBook reply and grew into a blog post.  I’ve had a Twitter account for 2 years but only started using it recently. Others have posted far superior step-by-step Twitter instructions (see Christopher Lehman So You Think … Continue reading →

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Digital Apocalypse

Posted on 21 February 2013 by Jim

Jim Groom opened kicked down a door at the end of 2010.  DS106 was the apo kalupsis which tore away the veil that had concealed the sumptuously rich, and often darkly funny nature of digital storytelling from my perception.  Prior … Continue reading →

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