Third Places & Third Spaces – #DigPed PEI
Part the first: How I Learned to Stop Worrying & Love the Internet (Kinda) I come from a small place. Seen from Google Earth, Prince Edward Island is a dot off the northern edge of the Atlantic...
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Excellence &…the Wild Rumpus
This week I got to descend upon Ohio – and OSU’s annual Innovate conference – to give a keynote about networks and higher education. Here are the slides I used to try to tell the story I was trying to...
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The Spectacle…or Welcome to the Handbasket?
I ended up thinking about Debord’s Society of the Spectacle (1967) whenever I opened up Twitter this past week. I mostly blame the clown-car/lynch mob that was Trump’s Republican National Convention...
View ArticleDigital Identities & Digital Citizenship: Houston, We Have a Problem
A couple of weeks back, I gave the closing keynote in Keene State College’s Open Education spring speaker series. It was a rumination on Open as a set of practices and a site of identity, particularly...
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The Crosshairs of the Split Hairs: #digciz
This week, Mia Zamora and I are kicking off #digciz 2017 with a conversation about digital citizenship, and what it means in a world wherein “the digital” is increasingly a delivery system for...
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Community: A 4-word Story
(this post is cross-posted from #Antigonish2.com)***In March, a woman I didn’t know sent me an email, with an idea. I knew her name, her Twitter handle, and that she lived in the UK. And I knew she’d...
View ArticleCan Higher Ed Help Save the Web?
(this post is cross-posted from #Antigonish2.com)*** Big news. :) #Antigonish2 is in the New Horizons column of this issue of EDUCAUSE Review, replete with Jetsons & French Revolution references....
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#engageMOOC – The Schedule
(this post is cross-posted from #Antigonish2.com) Hear ye, hear ye… Our pop up MOOC – Engagement in a Time of Polarization (#engageMOOC) – starts…MONDAY. It’s only two weeks long, so sign up right here...
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bringing back the participatory: a story of the #ProSocialWeb
So. We need to talk about the web. Disclaimer: I spent the early part of April living the Very Best of the Web. I’d doubted, frankly, that “best of the web” was a phrase I’d be likely to use again,...
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The #UWinToolParade: Open Pedagogy as #OER
I have a new project I’m really excited about. Even if it kinda goes against just about EVERYTHING I’ve said about tech in education over the past, uh, decade.It’s a Tool Parade. At least on the...
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