While I do not really believe that my year has been a sum of the following things, I really needed to take a moment and look back on all of the blog posts, tweets, and tagged links. I think I needed to see some impact as this year dwindles to …
I don’t often write poetry on this blog (or much at all since I left college), but here is what I wrote today: I’m playing with fire for a reason. I’m learning to ask and to answer. I’m reading between the lines, and finding passion there. I’m treading water with …
I have been thinking a lot about my session at Educon 2.2, and I think that I have finally figured out just what kind of conversation I would like to have. Originally, I thought that I would really be working with presenting ideas in context, with meaning, and for perspective. …
I finally decided to see what kind of community there was out there for startups and entrepreneurs within the local area. I guess there is something to be said for a local network as well as a twitter network (or for even having those two things having more overlap). Some …
This post is in response to a comment on my last post which went something like this: As I read your list I went back and forth agreeing with you. Do you ever question if it is not how we do PD but the audience that we have hired and …
Right now, we are asking teachers to learn in an unfamiliar and, many times, unintuitive way. Right now, we are asking teachers to teach themselves without any connection to a network. Right now, we are asking teachers to be experts in course creation without seeing any real examples of good …
I am pleased to announce the following features within the first prototype at http://speedgeeklearning.com: 57 Videos of Ignite Presentations from around the United States (Boulder, NYC, San Fransisco, Columbus, and many others) 8 Different Sessions answering attempting to answer the following questions: What is your life story? What does it …
I sent this out to all of the interested parties via e-mail today, but I know that a lot more people are following along, so here is the update on SpeedGeek Learning: We have new logo choices: So far, the consensus has been that the first one is the right …
Sharing content has become easy. Video has become easy. Networking has become easy. Meaning is still hard. Context is still hard. Perspective is still hard. I don’t want to do the easy things. They do not have value and aren’t interesting. Now that I have outlined the three things that …
I have it on some very good authority that geeks are very passionate people. We seem to take much more upon ourselves just so that we can get something to work. We dial down into the minutae. We play around with things that other people seemingly have no time for. …