Author Archives: Alyson Indrunas
Gatekeeper Courses
It’s an endless rotation of conversation. About open education. I get paid to talk about and to advocate for open education. Mostly I get to share open educational resources. Can I tell you how awesome that is? My favorite conversations … Continue reading
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Tagged Community College Thoughts, Learning OL, OERBlatherings
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Magic In The Machine
I really enjoy asking people about their dreams as it relates to teaching and technology. I encourage them to speak their minds about what they’d like to see and how it can help them in their contexts. When I was … Continue reading
Robot Tasks & Creative Brains
When I first started teaching online, I kept an on-going document of my most common responses to students. At the time, I felt like the worst teacher ever. My inner writer wanted to personalize every single message to students to … Continue reading
Workshop As A Verb
Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting. ~Cormac McCarthy One of my most vivid childhood memories is the day I learned how to ride a bike without training wheels. I remember my dad running behind me with … Continue reading
Learning As A Community
When I started graduate school again in 2010 as an education major, I was pretty unsure of what the future would hold for me and higher education. Learning communities were all the rage from about 2004-2009 at the community colleges … Continue reading
Files & Files: A Memoir
It’s funny. I think I was a better blogger when I was an unhappy grump about my job. What to do when I spend a lot of time reading and writing at work? And I dig it! In my free time … Continue reading
A Path Of Recent Thought
I think of this as my main blog, and I want to keep it that way for now since some people actually tune in. I don’t know who you all are, but thanks for placing your needle on the record … Continue reading
Converging Pathways For Professional Learning
This is the keynote speech that I delivered on December 11, 2015 at Clark College for their faculty professional development day. If you follow this blog, you may recognize some of what I’ve written. If you follow my blog for … Continue reading
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Tagged Adjuncts, Communities of Practice, Keynote, leadership, Preso, Professional Development
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The Great PDX Migration: A Memoir
“What sticks to memory, often, are those odd little fragments that have no beginning and no end…” ― Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried Oh the possessions I have shed! I’ve moved away from Bellingham (again), and the last few … Continue reading
Spoke & Hub 