"Predicting the future is easy. It's trying to figure out what's going on now that's hard" (Dressler, 2005)
At the recent NMC Retreat, the hashtag #NMChz had 998 tweets over the three days (at least that I could capture with Archivist). I copied the text of the tweets, removed NMChz and RT as two obvious repetitious terms, and then dumped what was left in Wordle. Interesting results: Click on the image above to… Read more A Thousand Tweets
Day Two at the NMC Future of Education Retreat was just as amazing as the first night, if not more so. Take one hundred colleagues from higher education, K12, museums, and corporate technology companies and have them think out loud for a day…that was the process at this retreat. Just look at the sticky notes… Read more Day Two at NMC Retreat
I’ll reflect more tomorrow…but this evening was fascinating. Malcolm Brown of Educause was our initial thought leader, and in 6 minutes, he suggested we look at the Horizon Report as a process of design thinking, working on “wicked problems.”. David Sibbet then facilitated our initial session trying to capture some hindsights about the Horizon Project… Read more Our First Session at the NMC Horizon Retreat
I have no real idea … just some notions, but I am lucky enough to be attending a neat retreat focused on just this question. I am attending a retreat hosted by the New Media Consortium, which publishes the Horizon Report annually. With well over one million downloads and 27 translations in the past ten… Read more What is the Future of Education?
I have enjoyed two full days at the 2012 Educause Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference in Baltimore. I previously posted materials from our presentation and my Twitter 2o2 session. By the way, Skyping Jon Becker in for Twitter 202 went just fine, and Jon added some great observations on the personal, professional, and academic use of Twitter. … Read more Two Days of MARC
Our entire tech team is here in Baltimore for the Educause Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference. Bud Deihl, Joyce Kincannon and I are presenting today on our use of online courses to prepare faculty to teach online (with thanks to David McLeod, our CTE Grad Fellow, who helped with the analysis). Without the words, the slides may… Read more At Educause MARC 2012 Conference
At next week’s Educause Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference in Baltimore, I have been asked to lead an “Experience IT” session on Twitter 202. Per the program, “…the “Experience IT” format offers a hands-on, highly interactive introduction to newer tools and technologies so you can explore their potential impact in the workplace and classroom and on your… Read more Twitter 202
I have to admit – 2011 seemed like a long year, and I am glad to see it go. 2012 seems more promising, even with a presidential election looming. 🙂 I did not blog much in 2011, but I also did little teaching in 2011 (and none online), and so did not feel that I… Read more Hello 2012 and a New Community for Learning