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Getting my ETMOOC Storify story into WordPress
Update, hours later: see below for what happened after I posted this…and do NOT do what I did, below, unless you know a lot more about html and css than I do (which doesn’t take much, b/c I know so little) ———————————————————————————- I participated in ETMOOC, Educational Technology and Media MOOC (http://etmooc.org) from January to […] Continue reading →
A record of my #ETMOOC experience, 2013
I participated in ETMOOC, Educational Technology and Media MOOC (http://etmooc.org) from January to April 2013. Here is a record of my participation in the course, focusing on things that I found especially interesting or thought-provoking! See this post for how I got the Storify story into this post. click “see more” to see the whole […] Continue reading →
Open and free
For week two of the Why Open? course I’m helping to facilitate, one of the things we asked participants to read and think about is similarities and differences between “open” and “free,” as these terms are currently used in discussions about openness. Of course, this just adds to the complexity, for now we have two […] Continue reading →
Results of survey on meaning of “open”
As part of a Why Open? course I’m helping to facilitate, we sent out a survey to gather different people’s views of what they think “openness” means–we were hoping to get answers from people in various professions. As part of the course, we asked participants to respond to some of these definitions in the discussion […] Continue reading →
Results of survey on meaning of “open”
As part of a Why Open? course I’m helping to facilitate, we sent out a survey to gather different people’s views of what they think “openness” means–we were hoping to get answers from people in various professions. As part of the course, we asked participants to respond to some of these definitions in the discussion […] Continue reading →
[Why Open?] What does “open” mean?
For the next five weeks, I’m helping to facilitate an open online course at the School of Open called Why Open? The course starts today, and we’ve asked participants to start by writing a blog post on the following: What do you think “openness” is? Focusing on your own field or context (if you […] Continue reading →
My first (but certainly not last) ds106 experience
The title of this post is not entirely true. Before I took a synchronous version of ds106, I did some daily creates, which certainly counts as a ds106 experience! But, I did have my first full, synchronous course experience with ds106 in May and June of 2013, when it was being given as a summer […] Continue reading →
Borges, Hernandez, Arlt
From the beginning of “The Daisy Dolls” I felt it was pretty clear how crazy the story was going to be. The way things were laid out, though, I was expecting it to be one of those short stories where everything makes enough sense, initially, then at the end it’s revealed how completely insane the […]
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The Metamorphosis, The Yellow Wallpaper
I’ve never really liked “The Metamorphosis”, probably because he becomes a disgusting cockroach-beetle thing, but also because I could never figure out how I felt about Gregor. On the one hand, he’s an idiot and his family takes advantage of that, living off of him, siphoning off money, locking him in his room, throwing apples […]
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Frankenstein
This wasn’t my first time reading Frankenstein, and I still love it. I found that the exact era where this was written had the perfect language. It’s not of the modern world with our lack of elegance in diction, but it’s not so far back that I need a dictionary to understand it, like with […]
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