Feb 25th, 2010
Think about *all* the implications that come from shifting our language from learn(ing) from to learn(ing) with. (and words matter, right David Jakes?) That’s the “shift” that has to happen. (apologies to Karl Fisch) That’s it. “Learning from” was often necessary when one party in the learning transaction(s) had greater access to information than the others. [...]
Oct 3rd, 2008
No point in re-creating the wheel, so I’ve copied the e-mail I sent to my faculty colleagues below (he only difference is that I embedded my teaser video into this post instead of just providing a link): *** Dearest colleagues, If I told you that there is an extraordinary educational conference that you can attend [...]
Sep 8th, 2008
For months now, I’ve been trying to figure out how to develop an online community to enhance our programs within the Department of Educational Leadership at VCU. Currently, each course has its own Blackboard space. We also send lots of e-mails to students, though sadly we don’t even have good e-mail groups in our e-mail [...]
Jul 18th, 2008
In response to Scott McLeod’s 140-character book review contest, I submitted an entry that summarized/synthesized two books in less than 140 characters. I wrote: ORGANIZING (EVERYBODY AND/OR EVERYTHING) IS DIFFERENT NOW. That’s it. Put together “Here Comes Everybody” and “Everything is Miscellaneous” and that’s what you get. For those who read the books, those 57 [...]
Jul 3rd, 2008
Lots of folks are reflecting on their NECC experiences. The reactions vary. Scott’s bullish, while Sheryl is not so sure. Also, towards the end of the conference, there were LOTS of tweets about brains hurting and brains shutting down. Ewan, using the work of Chris Craft, even wrote about this seeming cognitive overload. My guess [...]