If you have no idea what a MOOC is, don't feel bad. If you want to know what it is, watch this, this and then maybe this.  After years of following the nutty world of Jim Groom, it seemed like a great opportunity to fuel my passion for storytelling and all that is digital to join in the fun. I've taught many courses online and while they weren't...

There's an interesting phenomenon that I've been observing as late and that is the visualization of text. By that I mean using words as graphics. I remember back in the 1990's learning to create webpages using Dreamweaver, when we wanted to insure that a particular font was consistent across browsers and individual machines, we had to convert text to...

Yesterday I posted about the video project that ties in with my photo a day. I thought I'd provide a bit of an insight into my work flow mostly to document it for myself but also to see if others might see any way to improve it or simply add their own approach. Photos I use iphoto to organize and edit photos. For the photo a day project, I use the 365/10 tag and...

Since I decided to attach a song title to all my photos of the day this year, I've added a fair bit more of work to the project. While the project isn't intended to be work, this is mostly a personal challenge for me. I've enjoyed it for the most part and have usually had no difficulty finding a song but at times it's been tough.  Knowing that...

I’ve been yacking about storytelling for a long time on my blog. Partly from a personal passion and love, partly because new technologies have allowed us to tell stories differently and partly because storytelling is at the core of who we are. But beyond all these reasons it’s becoming more and more apparent that we are living in a time where storytelling...

Inspired by Doug Peterson, who was inpsired by ZeFrank that then inspired Stephen Downes and others I’ve created a little video of my life growing up in Morden, Manitoba.  Thanks to the every growing database of Google Streetview, it’s now reaching even small towns like the one I grew up in. This one’s mostly for me. Yet, it’s been...