Archive for May, 2008

can’t stand unicorns. this’ll have to do… »

Last night, I nuked my blog. At first, I was just doing it to make a point, but I quickly reached a point where I was almost convinced I was going to leave it nuked. I was going to toss the albatross overboard, and start fresh. But then I got an email from someone I’ve... »

On thinking about edupunk, it strikes me that I’ve been drawn to a group of people that have embodied it for years. People that are open. That prefer to DIY. People who share, remix, mashup, and generally operate in the spirit of what is now being called edupunk. Here are my edupunk heroes, who... »

Instead of talking about edupunk, or philosophizing about what defines punk culture, Alec just went ahead and lived it. His EC&I 831 course was serious hardcore edupunk, before the term was coined. He ran a grad course, completely in the open. He invited a whole bunch of people to join the class, where students and... »

Jim’s been talking about edupunk a fair bit lately (starting with the killer post The Glass Bees, then Permapunk and finally tying in the awesome Murder, Madness, Mayhem wikipedia project), and Jen wrote up a piece that dovetails nicely into the concept. There’s something about the edupunk concept that is resonating deeply in me. It’s... »

There’s been much handwringing about the “edublogosphere” not flocking to follow self-proclaimed leaders. That people are disgusted because other people don’t clamor to follow someone else’s lead because they say they are leading something. I’m not going to link, or point fingers, or name names. I’m going to keep this post short, because I... »

It rained almost nonstop the entire time we were at camp. The kids all had fun, though, and that’s all that matters… »

dropping offline now, likely until Sunday evening. Heading out to the year-end camping trip with the Beavers, in an area forecast for solid rain the whole time… hoping the evil spammers don’t infest my blogs while I’m gone… »

Twitter’s been flakier than usual this week, and supposedly the twitgineers are busy fixing database borkage and scaling stuff up and twiddling bits and furiously adjusting the machine that goes PING! And yeah, they’ve had investors temporarily filling bank accounts to pay for the lavish web 2.0 drug binge parties development of a more robust... »

The 3 days in Saskatoon for TLt2008 were absolutely fantastic. It’s fun turning into “conference D’Arcy” – the side of me that is ever so slightly less antisocial and reclusive – the side that seems to show up at conferences. Not sure why that is, but it’s something I’ve noticed for years now. Maybe... »