Blazing the River
Another installment of reflection on the nature of teaching and learning at the root level, my root level. I am trying to rive the smoke from the fire and the wake from the boat. Vialogues is such an...
View ArticleThe Big Learn
It is uncertain what school does beyond the PR. One thing is certain School will never teach you how to stand & take risks for your beliefs. — NassimNicholasTaleb (@nntaleb) February 20, 2016 I...
View ArticleYouTube, Vialogues, and Screencasting: PROFESSIONAL | PERSONAL | PEDAGOGICAL...
I am presenting on Thursday evening to the WKU Writing Project Spring Conference about using some handy tools for personal, professional, and pedagogical reflection. All of these tools were tested and...
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Which Side Are You On, Boys, Which Side Are You On?
I just lost a post where I tried to explain how learning is a natural state of being baked into our DNA and that teaching is actually training in disguise. I argued that most of the solutions we...
View ArticleNow I Understand What Black Lives Matters Needs to Succeed
Without solidarity and knowledge, we are just scum. ~Paul Mason (https://t.co/2e9blwkb5L) pic.twitter.com/JW51XuQZgn — Terry Elliott (@telliowkuwp) April 28, 2016 And not only do I understand but I...
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The Whole World Is A DJ
I ran across this quote reading a forum here on how to keep your mixes from getting booted off Soundcloud. The whole world is a DJ In the context of that forum the point was that the tools are...
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Policy Is Boring (NOT!)
What do policymakers want from researchers? Blogs, elevator pitches and good old fashioned press mentions. Duncan Green provides short and sweet translations of some of the key findings from a recent...
View ArticleRaise the Bar: Eight Reasons I Hate Your Screencast by Mark Lassoff :...
Raise the Bar: Eight Reasons I Hate Your Screencast by Mark Lassoff : Learning Solutions Magazine Screencasts-digital video recordings of computer screens, often with audio narration or added video of...
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Adult Coloring Books, the British Museum, and the Adjacent Possible
Here is how I took a little pause from #clmooc today. Public domain from the British Museum. Click on image to go to site. Adult coloring book treatment using the image manipulation tool SnagIt, but...
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Technology changes how authors write, but the big impact isn’t on their style
Technology changes how authors write, but the big impact isn’t on their style “Our writing instruments are also working on our thoughts.” Nietzsche wrote, or more precisely typed, this sentence on a...
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Fail, Try Again
At the university I work at, we have an employment classification called “Instructor”. In our department, English, there are five of us. We teach full-time, we get benefits, and I actually have an...
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Digital Humanist
The quote above comes from a short interview with Laura Braunstein who is the Digital Humanities and English Librarian at the Dartmouth College Library. Something shifted a bit inside me as I read...
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Digital Public Library of America » Back to School at DPLA
What’s on your checklist at the start of this school year?✓ Blank notebooks✓ Sharpened pencils,✓ Free, online ready-to-use education resources? Check! ‘ Source: Digital Public Library of America » Blog...
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How Experts Can Help a General Audience Understand Their Ideas
Nancy Duarte advises us how to be more “audience aware” for presentations. I especially like the “before/after” image whose graphic intelligence quotient has been raised. I, also, love the iceberg...
View ArticleI Contradict Myself Very Well
From Leaves of Grass: The past and present wilt — I have fill’d them, emptied them, And proceed to fill my next fold of the future. Listener up there! what have you to confide to me? Look in my face...
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Beautiful Curatorial Noise? IDK.
In my last post I wrote about how much noise was generated in my email from just five newsletters. I have always thought that curation by others would help create a signal, but it appears to me that...
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Certainly I’m Wrong
Just finished reading Venkatesh Rao’s newsletter “Breaking Smart”. It is a breath of honest air even if it sometimes stinks of the fishmonger, hangovers, and last night’s tuna surprise. I know that...
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