“Making” as Creativity at the NWPAM13
This year I was able to attend the National Writing Project’s Annual Meeting, a day and a half of workshops, sessions and conversations around teaching… Read More »“Making” as Creativity at the NWPAM13
Concepts & Models
I design open educational programs and participation initiatives here in the 21st Century. Technology is fast moving, and my work requires a good bit of conceptualization and invention to discover ways of empowering lots of people. This category is little bit meta, but the models, concepts and frameworks within are meta-ideas that might make something you’re working on easier. As with many of “my” thoughts and ideas, I must give credit to the inspiring thinkers who have helped me develop these ideas over the years. You know who you are!
OHM2013 Part 2 – Observing Segmentation, Pedagogy of Discomfort and impromptu Singing
Have you read Part 1? Part 2 will go from exploring hacker mentalities to heckling Pacman players. Bilal Ghalib introduced me to a Hackerspace founder… Read More »OHM2013 Part 2 – Observing Segmentation, Pedagogy of Discomfort and impromptu Singing
#teachtheweb: so you want to run a cMOOC
The #teachtheweb experience was about gathering people together to learn and share and collaborate. It was about people who care about the web and web… Read More »#teachtheweb: so you want to run a cMOOC
Planning, Running, Visualizing #teachtheweb
Week 3 of #teachtheweb is right around the corner, and I thought it might be nice to do a quick shareout of the planning and… Read More »Planning, Running, Visualizing #teachtheweb
Reflecting on #teachtheweb Week 1: Making as Learning
Last week we launched #teachtheweb, a Mozilla Open Online Collaboration (MOOC – more commonly “Massive Open Online Course”). The first week was all about Making… Read More »Reflecting on #teachtheweb Week 1: Making as Learning
New hackable kit prototypes
My colleague Matt Thompson wrote an update on the Hackable Kits. Go check it out: http://openmatt.org/2013/04/30/hackable_kits/ This work has been evolving for a while. Check… Read More »New hackable kit prototypes
Hacktivity Kits != Event Agenda, but they sure are close…
In an ongoing effort to make Hacktivity Kits as useful as possible, I thought I would explain (quickly) what they are and how to use… Read More »Hacktivity Kits != Event Agenda, but they sure are close…
Making is Learning (Chad Sansing)
I recently made this video and wanted to make sure and share the Popcornified version :)
This just in: MOOCs are all the rage right now
As if you hadn’t seen the influx of moocyness over the last year. We’re now about halfway through the #ETMOOC experience, having launched Topic 3:… Read More »This just in: MOOCs are all the rage right now
East Coast Tour Reflections
I’ve been calling the last couple weeks my East Coast Tour. I only played air guitar once though, and there was, regrettably, no karaoke during… Read More »East Coast Tour Reflections