Archive for the ‘Uncategorized’ Category

OLPC (one laptop per child) advert-ical in the NY Times.

Friday, October 5th, 2007

Well... I'd meant to make my next blog post about the really fun conference and the really cool stuff I've seen in the last couple of weeks but I just couldn't do it. I saw the article from the New York Times via Bob Sprankle via OL Daily and had ...

Jeff Lebow - Technology and Learning Leader of the Year

Thursday, September 20th, 2007

I'm adding my voice to the throngs(see list) of folks nominating Jeff Lebow as a Technology and Learning Leader of the Year. I've never nominated anyone for an award before... but, over the close to ten years I've known Jeff, I'd be hard pressed to imagine anyone who is more ...

Edtech Conference at UPEI - September 29th

Tuesday, September 18th, 2007

Well here comes the self serving public service announcement. We have an uber-cool conference coming up on the 29th of September at the University of Prince Edward Island and we want YOU to come. ALL ARE WELCOME --> kick off at 9:30am New Media Literacies in Learning Landscapes Our speakers Will Richardson - ...

Blogging - Not ‘IF’ but When and Where. UPEI presentation

Tuesday, September 4th, 2007

These are the notes for a presentation at the University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI) on the 4th of September, 2007 as part of the Let's Talk Teaching day. In short, the presentation will try to explain that we need to move beyond the question about whether blogging is 'good' ...

An introduction to my blog - Two years in review

Friday, August 17th, 2007

After reading the post “eight things i hate about the edublogosphere” i thought that it might be nice to give new people a sense of what is written here on this blog. My two year anniversary is just about now (If you are about to say “that's not what it ...

Living Archives - An SL, Drupalish, historical research/Archives type project

Sunday, July 15th, 2007

Well... it's been a while. Seemed to find my fingers freezing on the keyboard as I come anywhere near the blog over the last few weeks. I've had lots to say, have been keeping snippets of it in different places but haven't really gotten around to getting it on paper. ...

Rhizomes - Deleuze and Guattari

Sunday, June 10th, 2007

I've been working on this idea and have moved my research to a new place. Check it out and join in if you've a mind. Rhizomatic.net

Building Ecologies - making room for communities and networks

Monday, May 21st, 2007

I had a really fun time hanging with folks at the CADE/AMTEC conference last week. The main thrust of most of the conversations was about the building of communities and I was fortunate enough to be talking to Stephen Downes, George Siemens and Terry Anderson. I rounded out a great ...

CADE/AMTEC - day 2 - Best Online Course Ever?

Wednesday, May 16th, 2007

Very different kind of post from the conference today. This was from a panel presentation this morning and it was so good that i thought i would try and record it all. The notes are still a little sketchy... hope it's readable :) italics for dave's thoughts Vicky, the first speaker ...

CADE/AMTEC - day 1

Tuesday, May 15th, 2007

Well... the wireless stuff sorted itself out, due, I believe, to heroic efforts of the tech staff at the university of manitoba. Turns out it was one of those situations where a series of very odd things happened and a couple of very smart geeks got us back online... thanks ...