"Predicting the future is easy. It's trying to figure out what's going on now that's hard" (Dressler, 2005)
Just finished an interesting book by Christine Borgman (2007) – Scholarship in the Digital Age: Information, Infrastructure and the Internet. What made this interesting was that I was reading this back to back with Clayton Christensen’s (2008) Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns. Borgman does a nice job of… Read more Blogs as Disruptive Innovation
I am a product of the quality movement of the Eighties. I was a Deming Disciple and in the Nineties was a Baldrige-trained examiner for the State of Georgia’s Board of Examiners for their state quality award. I have taught courses on quality management in both Schools of Education and Business. I still believe that… Read more Some Good Questions – Blogs as Scholarship
I blogged yesterday about the role we early adopters need to play in bringing social media to the masses. Got some very thoughtful comments back from a lot of folks. In particular, Colin Warren of Deakin University in Victoria, Australia, made a follow-on post at his blog, in which he referenced Geoffrey Moore’s book Cross… Read more Bridging the Education Chasm
I did not attend NECC 2008 but I have found some of the blogs and tweets fascinating. It seems there is a bit of angst in the edublogger world by some of the people I follow and find insightful. Quite a few people were disappointed and at odds on next steps. I am probably taking… Read more Not New To You Does Not Make It Not New
Jeff Nugent, Bud Deihl and I were brainstorming about workshops to offer next fall to the VCU faculty, and we began to take apart our normal offerings of the various “tools” associated with instructional technology. Jeff began to draw on the whiteboard (yes…we still go low tech at times….) and laid out the following visualization… Read more Moving Beyond Access and Convenience to Learning
An unexpected pleasure Friday night and Saturday – my old friend Perry Hidalgo and his son came through town and spent the night. I first met Perry 11 years ago when he was an adjunct at Herkimer County Community College in New York where I was a dean. I hired him as a full-time professor… Read more Catching Up with Old Friend
I was on vacation when the Wordle craze started, but I still found it compelling. Thought I would take a look at how it viewed my blog posts for the last month. Pretty, and some interesting words jump out at me.
I should be working on my annual report – it is due in a week…but I am reflecting instead on the bigger picture. Last year, I reported on the number of faculty served, the number of consultations conducted, the number of workshops presented, the number of conference presentations conducted…all good stuff and all typical in… Read more Annual Report Reflections
Meet my granddaughter Molly! She will be 2 weeks old this Thursday! Linda and I are spending the week up in Natick MA with Molly and my daughter Melissa and her husband Chris. Somehow, after playing with Molly all day, blogging is the furtherest thing from my mind! Not to mention my end of year… Read more Why I Am Not Blogging This Week
It is a little known fact that nothing will get me doing the Air Guitar faster than Dire Straits and Sting’s “Money for Nothing“. And thanks to Songza, I can pull this song and many others up on demand for free when ever I am in the mood. Anyway, that thought of “Money for Nothing”… Read more If Free is Expected, Define “Value”