That's a joke that many of us who know Alec Couros use to describe a number of experiences he shares as part of being a network learner and crowd sourcing. That become the intro to this video I put together along with the help of about 75 others. The Big Picture Learning Stuff While at first glance it may be seen as simply fun, silly and maybe a wee bit...

"Dad, what's your 3rd favourite colour?"  My youngest daughter is known for asking these types of questions. She has actually asked that one but usually the questions are more about a favourite part of a movie, what's your favourite vacation spot, etc. That's pretty typical for kids and even adults. We love to order and rank things. I have...

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...

Smarter people than I have written about this article by Clay Shirky but this quote hit me like a ton of bricks. This clearly points to the need and urgency to rethink many things we’ve always...