Academic European Instructor Evil Robot
WHOA! I know, I know, I’ve totally been slacking on my “Blog Every Single Tuesday” rule. I’ve been busy. Really busy, and I haven’t had… Read More »Academic European Instructor Evil Robot
Leadership Development
We humans never stop learning, but sometimes we get a little set in our ways of thinking. Leadership development helps people step out of their cultural and societal norms to take life by the horns. It is an essential piece in furthering openness within an organization or community. This category explores professional development and talks about inviting leaders to step up and live the open ethos.
Initial Distill of Kitchen Table Lessons
Mozillians have been beta testing the Kitchen Table format. After reading a lot of good write ups about individual tests (from Joe, Jess, Lainie, Peter… Read More »Initial Distill of Kitchen Table Lessons
Every laboratory needs a mad scientist
First, a contextual clarification: Facilitation is herein used in the context of learning. For me, facilitation is teaching, but there’s a difference in connontation for… Read More »Every laboratory needs a mad scientist
Failure = Lesson Learned
Today I was finishing up a one page summary called “10 Things that Make a Good Challenge”, a distilled version of Chloe Varelidi’s excellent post,… Read More »Failure = Lesson Learned
Response to Mozilla as teacher
Inspiration for this post is: Mozilla as teacher by Mark Surman When I read the first line of Mark’s post “We need to teach the… Read More »Response to Mozilla as teacher
If I go there will be trouble, and if I stay it will be double…
It’s been no secret that I’m leaving Facebook, I’ve been rather vocal (and annoying) about it. Over the last week or so, I’ve begun to… Read More »If I go there will be trouble, and if I stay it will be double…
Friendly Tips for Keeping your Contributors
One thing that I constantly hear colleagues in the Open Web community talking about is the lack of participation on the part of the user.… Read More »Friendly Tips for Keeping your Contributors
Melt My Brain
I’ve been called a “new media expert”, “technologist”, “programmer”, “web guru”, “creative software ninja”. I have a degree in design, but am a self taught… Read More »Melt My Brain
My PI Speech: Looking Back
The first year at the Producer’s Institute for New Media Technologies, I was a production artist, but I knew something completely revolutionary was going on… Read More »My PI Speech: Looking Back
Open Web and Why YOU Should be Paying Attention
Facebook opts you automatically in with their new facial recognition software, Apple is going to start taking 30% of revenues from developers, the US Border… Read More »Open Web and Why YOU Should be Paying Attention