For some of you reading this, you understand this but some of you and many of the people you work or live with can’t imagine how any people can form deep connections with others they’ve never met and in some cases never communicating with directly. CBC Spark, devoted a good part of a recent episode to this very idea. You’d do well to listen and...

As I wrap up another term teaching at the University of Regina, I’m once again grateful for the way a host of people, (known to some as a PLN) are so willing to support my students and me in our learning. Earlier this semester I sent out a call for teachers and as usual, they responding wonderfully. I had each of my students working with great teachers around...

  Tuesday evening I received a call from Rogers about my daughter's account. I was a bit shocked when she said the bill was over $900. After I finished hyper ventilating, had a very focused discussion with my daughter I sent out this tweet. The truth is the bill over two months as over $900 of which $764.13 was texting. She's had this account for 2...

Search is highly overrated. I have a serious problem. As I build presentations I get a clear vision of an idea or concept I want to discuss and I immediately want to visualize it. For better or worse, I gain and make meaning with visuals. To that end I’ve continued to create slides that I reuse and share with others. Fortunately others have shared my passion...

cc licensed flickr photo shared by Will Lion As this article states, the problem of attention isn’t particularly new but it certainly is becoming more and more an issue. I remember teachers back in the 1980′s lamenting that they felt they were competing with the MTV generation. MTV seems pretty tame and managable compared to what we are dealing with...

Almost, but not quite a follow up to my last post about stages, this snippet from Spark’s latest podcast sheds some interesting light on why people choose to lurk rather than participate. If you’re one of those who tries to persuade others to invest in social networks and embrace them, perhaps this might help, or maybe you would challenge the premise....