February 16, 2012
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This is a long post. The kind of post that I write more for myself because it is fairly personal and not something that is directly related to what I usually write about here. Or maybe it is. If you … Continue reading
December 4, 2011
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I realized something tonight as I read the story of how Virginia Tech professor John Boyer landed a Skype interview for his World Regions class with Aung Sun Suu Kyi, leader of the democratic movement in Burma – I don’t … Continue reading
April 2, 2011
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Excerpt from article by Martha Stone Wiske, Harvard Graduate School of Education in Harvard Business Review Amplify’d from blogs.hbr.org Unleashing the Power of Networked Learning What’s different is that the top-down, center-out approach to traditional education is dramatically diminished. Learner-generated, … Continue reading
March 13, 2011
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I love this phrase “coaxing serendipity” as a way to describe the process that results when a loosely structured informal social environment of like minded people occurs. I’ve experienced this kind of serendipity in my own learning as a result … Continue reading
March 9, 2011
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Article from The Guardian about new research done on an MA level distance program and how some specific technology tools were incorporated into the program. Specifically, e-readers, Second Life and audio. Interesting that Second Life was being used as an … Continue reading
March 4, 2011
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Something I have been noticing in my own virtual connections is that, whether on Facebook or Twitter, I am conversing more and more with people I associate with IRL. I’ve been wondering why this is, and I think it has … Continue reading
December 22, 2010
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Something is happening at my institution. I seem to be connecting with more of our faculty on Facebook and Twitter. Interest in blogging among faculty is growing, and every week I am hearing of another faculty person starting to blog … Continue reading
December 10, 2010
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I usually don’t write highly personal stuff about my work, but felt I just had to say this. Yesterday I had a reminder of how wonderful the people I work with are. Yesterday at 2pm I had my first interview … Continue reading
November 28, 2010
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I changed my identity this week. Like some Cold War secret service agent, I was able to slip off my old face and replace it with a new one. On Twitter I went from: to: I made the change because … Continue reading
August 2, 2010
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I don’t play golf, but if I did I am sure a tool like Golfscape would be in my mobile app collection if only to help me explain exactly what augmented reality, and demonstrate why the NMC/ELI Horizon Report picked … Continue reading