May 2015
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Geeking out as a conversational paradigm
1993 After I graduated college I couldn’t find a job straight off, and I didn’t know what I wanted to do. I ended up staying home with my parents for a bit, in suburbia, and nearly losing my mind. The one thing that saved me was weekly four-hour coffeeshop sessions with two friends. The conversations Continue reading
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The OER Case for Federated Wiki
I talk a lot about the open pedagogy case for federated wiki, but not much about the OER/OCW case for it. That doesn’t mean it isn’t a good fit for the problems one hits in open materials reuse. Here’s how you currently reuse something in WordPress, for example. It’s a pretty horrific process. Log into Continue reading
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We Are Not In the Content Business, We Are In the Community Business
My daughter, who is amazing by the way, introduced me to John Green a couple years ago. Her face was always in her phone, and I thought geez, Katie, get off Facebook. And I think I actually said that. To which she replied “Why would I be on Facebook? I’m watching John and Hank Green Continue reading
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