I’m about two thirds into my first endeavour teaching an online course and certainly have learned much about the process. First off, even though I only have 14 students, it’s been tough to get to know them. The ones I know best are those who have been blogging and commenting and allowing me to follow via RSS. Their blogs make up the bulk of their work and...

This post is part confession, part request, part exploration. The Confession: If you don’t blog but have some significant ideas, learning, teaching to share, I likely may not know about your or even follow your work. Which is to say that my RSS aggregator has become the primary means by which I learn. During my time at BLC, I was privileged to listen to Marco...

I had the privilege to present at this amazing conference. It was also great to have a number of my friends in my session as well as some new ones. While I felt a bit limited with the time and the speed of my connection, I had many positive comments (People are so nice). Bob Sprankle was good enough to record the session and post it on his website as well. While I...

To illustrate the past 2 hours of my day have a look: 10:00 Began an Elluminate session with Jeff Utecht, his Plymouth State students, mine and Alec Couros 11:00 Clarence Fisher starts a chat session with me using Google Chat about his current visit to Moose Jaw. I invite him to talk to my students in a couple of weeks. 11:15 Session comes to a close as Jeff tells...

Google is putting together an interesting, fun project demonstrating the power of connection. A few of us on the Gmail team came up with an idea to stitch together a bunch of video clips that all share one element: someone hands the Gmail M-velope in from the left of the screen, and hands it off to the right. Put them all together, and they form one long chain of...