This week I am working on two things really albeit some of what I saw may sound repetitive, I really am working! I know we as educators always knew this, but it sounds kind of funny to say it now: I am not reinventing the wheel. See I am getting paid to develop this [...]

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Ok ok I’ve been completely overwhelmed by all of this, and I also didn’t realize how draining it is to build all of this. I know I could do it simpler, but forget that. It’s gotta be right if we’re sharing it with our community, and I don’t do anything half assed. Forget it. So [...]

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Ok so it’s spring break. I promised my grant supervisor that I would get a ton done these two weeks, and I am sure she’ll want to meet with me next week (we meet montly and haven’t in March). So what did we do? Well, Shelley and I met last week, and then I took [...]

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Social Software Interaction
Picture Originally uploaded by ChrisL_AK

I came across this photo while reading Liz Davis’ technology education website, and it struck me that there’s this mutation of communication online; I wonder how this fits into the framework of my class. There’s this overlapping between forums, blogs, and wikis, and I guess my [...]

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In the Gabcast for this week a question arose about the platform for the course we’re building. Let me disclose that I wrote a grant for the course I am building, and I am co-developing it with a colleague. With that said, I prefer Google Apps as my platform (like this course), and not because [...]

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Nooccar’s Desktop
Originally uploaded by nooccar

My desktop is always cluttered like my workspace, and I typically have whatever I am currently work with all over the desktop. I love this picture of my 2 1/2 year old, Claire, so it’s there too. It’s almost like being naked by screencasting my desktop without editing it [...]

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