The Federated OER Wiki Is Up and Running

Article note: I didn’t think I could excited about wikis until I started working with Mike on this project. It’s amazing and I can actually start to see the utility of a distributed wiki platform where everyone is contributing to the sum of knowledge in a space.Tim Owens and I have been working off and […]

The Federated OER Wiki Is Up and Running

Article note: I didn’t think I could excited about wikis until I started working with Mike on this project. It’s amazing and I can actually start to see the utility of a distributed wiki platform where everyone is contributing to the sum of knowledge in a space.Tim Owens and I have been working off and […]

Six months into Domain of One’s Own

Article note: Wonderful 6 month check-in by Martha on the Domain of One’s Own project. It’s easy to get bogged down in the day-to-day administrative stuff but amazing when you stand back and realize what we’ve managed to accomplish so far with such an ambitious project.It’s been months since I did my first status report […]

Six months into Domain of One’s Own

Article note: Wonderful 6 month check-in by Martha on the Domain of One’s Own project. It’s easy to get bogged down in the day-to-day administrative stuff but amazing when you stand back and realize what we’ve managed to accomplish so far with such an ambitious project.It’s been months since I did my first status report […]

Can someone explain WhatsApp’s valuation to me?

Article note: The WhatsApp buy is fascinating and I’m really hoping someone will write a good post taking apart how purchases like this feed the monster of wealth inequality.Unless you were off the internet yesterday, it’s old news that WhatsApp was purchased by Facebook for a gobsmacking $16B + $3B in employee payouts. And the […]

Can someone explain WhatsApp’s valuation to me?

Article note: The WhatsApp buy is fascinating and I’m really hoping someone will write a good post taking apart how purchases like this feed the monster of wealth inequality.Unless you were off the internet yesterday, it’s old news that WhatsApp was purchased by Facebook for a gobsmacking $16B + $3B in employee payouts. And the […]

Hospitality

Article note: A great post by Gardner that gets at some of the concerns I’ve heard raised in our Faculty Initiative in regards to why an academic might not want to blog openly. Planning to share this at our cohort this week.From The Oxford English Dictionary:1. a. The act or practice of being hospitable; the […]

Hospitality

Article note: A great post by Gardner that gets at some of the concerns I’ve heard raised in our Faculty Initiative in regards to why an academic might not want to blog openly. Planning to share this at our cohort this week.From The Oxford English Dictionary: 1. a. The act or practice of being hospitable; […]

Invading a conference in a robotic doppelganger

Article note: I love the idea of iPads on Segways allowing someone to be somewhere virtually. Although it looks creepy I can see a ton of applications for the technology (and it seems the audio issue could be rectified with good speakers plugged in).This evening I attended the Educause Learning Initiative (ELI)’s annual conference, but […]

Invading a conference in a robotic doppelganger

Article note: I love the idea of iPads on Segways allowing someone to be somewhere virtually. Although it looks creepy I can see a ton of applications for the technology (and it seems the audio issue could be rectified with good speakers plugged in).This evening I attended the Educause Learning Initiative (ELI)’s annual conference, but […]