Category Archives: All The Things
Chihuahuas Among the New Foundlands: The Need For Communities of Practice 2.0 #dLRN15
I’m not ready to reflect on dLRN15 yet on the interwebs, but here is the paper that I presented there at Stanford University, October 17, 2015. Thank you, lady leaders Amy Collier, Bonnie Stewart, Lee Skallerup, Adeline Koh, Kristen Eshleman, and (and others) for … Continue reading
Whirlwinds @vconnecting & #dLRN15
“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.” ― Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist … Continue reading
The Job Of My Dreams: A Memoir
Our work involves designing new, innovative solutions to solve the tensions between traditional academic approaches to learning and new, less traditional ones. ~Joanne Munroe “Assessment Incognito: Design Thinking and the Studio Learning FLC” Back in the day when I taught … Continue reading
Safety Third
“You don’t dive for specific solutions; you dive to enliven that ocean of consciousness. Then your intuition grows and you have a way of solving those problems—knowing when it’s not quite right and knowing a way to make it feel … Continue reading
The luxury of time & total immersion
Sounds like a memoir title, right? Only no. It’s the mission statement of a beautiful place I have discovered. Recently I enjoyed some holiday time–pure vacation. Time off. From life. From work. From everything. Time. It’s been a rough transition back, … Continue reading
Disasters & Bicycles
“Stop asking how technology can help you teach and start asking how technology should change how you teach.” ~Mike Caulfield, shadow syllabus for T&L 521 “Renewable assignments also imply a shift in faculty thinking from “grading” to “editing.” For each … Continue reading
The Forests Still Burn
“None of us expected the future to arrive so soon.” ~Ira Spring, providing the historical perspective about fire lookouts in Washington State. This post is the first of three that I plan to publish this week. My plan is to … Continue reading
Choose Your Own Federated Wiki Adventure
Remember choose your own adventure books? As a kid, I loved those books because they let me decide where the character goes. What happens. Why. I got to choose, and I bet I felt like the writer that I hadn’t … Continue reading
You’re The Only One I Can Tell
“You know,” she said, “this is either going to be the best adventure ever or the biggest mistake of my life. What do you think?” I wish I could say I had some words of wisdom or brave statements full … Continue reading
Mentoring New-ish Faculty
In my last blog post, I promised I’d continue my thoughts on the horrors of adjunctification/causualisation in higher education, but I’ve got to take step away for a bit. My adjuncts friends are facing an awful reality in the upcoming … Continue reading
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