Archive for April, 2010
students line up to buy their Bermuda Shorts Day bracelets and shirts, to get into the beer gardens on the last day of class.
2010/04/13: Pretend you’re a stringer for your local newspaper today. Make a photo that captures something newsworthy to you. #ds149
As the final requirement in the Conceptualizing Educational Technology course I took in W2010, I had to write a position paper on a topic of my choosing. I’ve been thinking about Gardner Campbell’s piece in EDUCAUSE Review, and wanted to dig a little deeper in that direction. The end result is still a bit rough (I polished it off early so I could submit it before leaving on vacation, and the APA formatting is likely utter shyte), and I had to skip entire sections I’d written in my head (I wanted to write about the obvious model demonstrated by Downes and Siemens in the Massive Open Online Course on Connectivism, but ran out of room and wanted to start with the examples of first steps before jumping into the “BYPASS THE INSTITUTION” angle).
Anyway, here’s the paper as submitted for the course. It hasn’t been graded yet, so it could be a complete load of crap. YMMV.
Toward a personal cyberinfrastructure (135KB PDF file)
seems to happen every time I go on vacation. the first work day back, we get a dump of white stuff. I should either not go on vacation, or not return.
I spent the day doing the usual day-after-vacation stuff. 47 loads of laundry. and processing 1100 photos into 117 keepers, then uploading to Flickr and Mindfulseeing – and accidentally spamming the 3 people that follow me on twitter with automated updates for each of the 15 posts. oops.
well, the plane WAS headed to winnipeg…
the band came around and played guantamara for grandma
we spent some time watching the activities along the waterfront, and traffic passing in and out of downtown puerto vallarta.
we spent most of the day at the beach, jumping in the waves and building huge sand castles.
