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Mike Caulfield's latest web incarnation. Networked Learning, Open Education, and Online Digital Literacy

Mike Caulfield

  • Inhospitable Writing

    Edit: What I describe here is not meant to imply you should write on the web one way or another. Different styles serve different purposes. But I think sometimes people are confused as to why we need wiki, or OER, or other such things when we “have the web”. And the answer is that the… Continue reading

  • Write for the Federated Library Project!

    Or maybe it’s the Federated Learning Project? We’re going to try to construct some federated wiki-ish stuff in WordPress. I explained what I need to do to get WordPress to act in the way we want it to to Boone Gorges, and he said it would be relatively easy, which means it should take me… Continue reading

  • My Daughter Made a Cute Piece of OER on Art History. Discuss.

    My wife Nicole was trying to make a short video for her fifth grade art class, but found it hard to get up the requisite on-camera energy for that sort of thing. So my 12 year-old daughter stepped in as pinch hitter and delivered the lesson. I think she did pretty good, and if you… Continue reading

  • The Banal Uselessness of the Utopian Binary Critique

    I was watching Jesse Stommel at NWeLearn this past week give an excellent presentation on grading. In it he suggested a number of alternatives to traditional grading, and outlined some of the ways that traditional grading is baked into the system. And the end of the talk, the inevitable hand: “Your presentation seems so BINARY,”… Continue reading

  • The Garden and the Stream: A Technopastoral

    Opening keynote for dLRN 2015. Delivered October 16th @ Stanford. Actual keynote may have gone on significant tangents… 1 | a year in the garden A week or so ago, I was reading about the Oregon shooting. I’m a pretty standard issue liberal and when I see things that support my liberal views I tend… Continue reading

  • Building a Pseudo-Wiki on Tumblr

    At the heart of wiki is a simple idea that names matter. Page names in wiki are not locations. They aren’t a place where a document lives. Names identify ideas, patterns, theories, and data in wiki that can be recombined with other ideas, patterns, theories, and data to make complex meaning not expressible in a… Continue reading

  • Wriggling Cat

    Ted Nelson on the invention of hypertext. And perhaps relevant to annotation today? But it seemed to me that as soon as you have computer storage you could put every point you wanted in – make the ones that are less relevant to your central topic, further away or allow the central topic to move… Continue reading

  • Accruing Associations

    Today I find this story on my Twitter Feed. A government nuclear facility accidentally sent out some “excess” nuclear material. Whoops! The name of the facility rings a bell though. Haven’t I heard of government installation “Y-12” before? I’m pretty sure there’s been problems there before. I search my personal wiki: Aha! That’s right. I’d… Continue reading

  • Toward a Less Self-Assertive Web

    Working on my 83rd idea for my dLRN keynote, because that’s “how I do”. (I’ve also been watching The Wire a lot). Today via David Jones this beautiful piece on systems theory comes to me. It’s from a new book by Fritjof Capra and Pier Luigi Luisi: In our brief summary of the emerging systems… Continue reading

  • This Is My Point About the Stream

    From Times Higher Education today: Moreover, the thesis statement can actually be the enemy of critical enquiry because it straitjackets the writer into a line of argument that has to be defended to the death, blithely bulldozing – or simply ignoring – any tentative “yes, but…” that might get in the way. This is not… Continue reading