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I’ve been pondering one of the early readings in CMC11 which stated “Multicultural experience enhances creativity.” Being immersed in cultures other than the one a person was born into, does allow the mind to embrace alternate frames of reference. And … Continue reading
What a difference personal interaction makes in distance learning! Hanging out with Carol Yeager in G+ tonight inspired me to quit waiting until I had time to do it perfectly, and just write the blog post. I told Carol how … Continue reading
Somewhere in lurking through #CMC11 I stumbled across Gordon Lockhart’s CCK11 blog posting, Man! This MOOC is Something Else! It’s the kind of delightfully tongue-in-cheek dialog I enjoy. When I asked him via a comment, if he’d considered animating it … Continue reading
What happens when 63 eager MOOCers get kicked out of BigBlueButton on their individual derrières? Well, first there’s a big bang as they are ejected to the farthest reaches of the Twitter/FB/G+ multiverse. Then, as gravitational attraction overcomes the energy … Continue reading
After feasting on the riches from PLENK 2010 for a whole year, I’m looking forward to the upcoming Change MOOC. This spring my College made official the tongue-in-cheek “Computer Geek” award they gave me a year earlier. This one, titled … Continue reading
I’m a virtual attendee at the Canadian Moodle Moot in Edmonton. Connecting via Elluminate from my classroom in the NWT. First day of http://moodlemoot.ca was a pre-conference. Great prezi re on-line learning by George Siemens and Terry Anderson this morning … Continue reading
My original understanding of the term “Digital Storytelling” was much too narrow. Here’s how I originally saw it. This was my contribution to the October 2010 (10-10-10) One Day On Earth project. It is Web 2.0 by virtue of it’s … Continue reading
Sucked into the vortex of WordPress plugins, permalinks, pingbacks, and Google Accounts, I’m listening to Tommy Roe’s 1969 hit “Dizzy” and trying to get back up out of the whirlpool. I dutifully installed and activated the recommended Askimet – no … Continue reading
The other day I was doing some shredding when inspiration hit me. Why not build a hidden scanner into a shredder… Here’s the rest of my story, which illustrates why a self-directed PLE requires a good deal more discipline than I like to exercise.
