I suppose I shouldn’t blog while down about the state of humanity. But I do many things I shouldn’t do. I was just reading through some news reports of the continued misunderstanding of faculty on what Wikipedia is, how it works, and why it matters. I doubt that you’d be able to get a teaching Continue reading

Did this this morning, it was fun. Higher Ed policy wonk Bryce McKibben makes statement on Twitter. We have an exchange, I write it up in fedwiki and link him to it for review. Here’s a screenshot of the fedwiki page: Bryce replies yes, it’s fairly accurate, and suggests an additional link to a think Continue reading

In getting ready to present federated wiki at OpenEd and I’ve edited  the “Arthur Clarke” scenario down to seven minutes and fifteen seconds, and crunched it all together. The set up for this video is this: Arthur Clarke has some insights in 1950 about global positioning systems. He doesn’t realize that other people are working Continue reading

by Mike Caulfield. Keynote delivered at NWACC 11/6/2014. Part 1: Sputnik I’m going to start this keynote by stealing a story from Steven Johnson, a historian of technology. Johnson uses the invention of GPS as a case study in how innovation happens. It’s his favorite story and he’s told it everywhere from a TED Talk Continue reading

I should be prepping for the NWACC keynote. — it’s in a couple hours. But of course in going over my notes and reading some recent posts (particularly this one by Bonnie Powers) I suddenly doubt the route I’ve chosen into my subject (which is, of course, federated wiki). Why? Because I talk about the Continue reading