How About Some Results?

TRU Writer for English Courses Image Collector for TRU Biology 2290 TRU Writer as Platform for Online Journals John Johnston: Make Your Own SPLOT   Sound Effect Audio Stories IDeas: Instructional Designers Site MOVE: an open online learning resource (inspired by work at JIBC)       Image Credit: cc licensed (BY) flickr photo by […]

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The You Show

Professional Development Series Based on DS106 Front Stage / Back Stage You are the star of your own show, you are also the producer and narrator of your own show. The production skills you will learn in this seminar will help you produce more compelling ways of sharing your show using visual, audio, and and […]

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SPLOT!

Smallest/Simplest ? Possible/Portable ? Open/Online ? Learning/Living ? Tool/Technology ? Designed with two core principles in mind: make it as easy as possible to post activity to the open web in an appealing and accessible way allow users to do so without creating accounts, or providing any required personal information Narrowly-scoped tools that lend themselves […]

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The TRU Work

Four Month Visiting Scholar Fellowship in Open Learning Our Meeting Environment… Early on we identified two core challenges in getting people to get onto the open web. The perceived difficulty (and lack of support) of open web environments, and privacy concerns. Over beers, Alan remembered some interesting work Tom Woodward had done with online forms […]

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Challenges of Open Education

Where are the Generalists and Builders? For a set of reasons (complexity, history, economy), that room to experiment has been squeezed out Open Web Tech: Afterthought, Difficult, Unreliable On the False Binary of LMS vs Open (D’Arcy Norman) @dlnorman @colecamplese Don't buy it because I live the opposite. — Jim Groom (@jimgroom) October 27, 2014 […]

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Web Co-Claimed?

Is There a Middle Ground? Keep on Co-Claiming I’m a Sometimes Co-Claimer, Maybe Leaning to be a Reclaimer, but largely… a Com-plainer. Still Waiting for the Library of Congress for a Twitter Archive? Updated January 2013) Co-Claiming Twitter: That Twitter Archive? Thanks to Martin Hawksey (Genius) ITS ALIVE Keep your Twitter Archive fresh on Google […]

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Web Reclaimed?

  Boone Gorges and D’Arcy Norman. Domain of One’s Own, Reclaim Hosting The Indie Web, (Audrey Watters) A radical re-ordering of education and of education technology. Not new flashcards or adaptive assessments or digital textbooks or annotated YouTube videos or celebrity MOOCs or VC-funded bullshittery. Something else. Something indie. Something that re-centers the learner. Something […]

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Open Web Lost?

FIPPA • privacy • corporate co-opting • Net Neutrality • risk • patent system • security • Activism • trolls • open washing • CISPA • spying • fraud • tracking • hacking • apathy • CALEA • data snooping • LMS-ification • mass surveillance • Facebook • phishing • NSA • Gamergate The Web […]

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It’s a Quiz…

The Open Web (a) Lost (b) Reclaimed (c) Co-claimed (d) All of the above       Image Credit: cc licensed (BY-SA) flickr photo by cogdogblog: http://flickr.com/photos/cogdog/7155294657

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