the red pincushion

August 10, 2018August 10, 2018

I will remember you by the river

Two weeks ago today, we had to put our dog to sleep. My dog. Sam. Sam was my...

April 24, 2018April 30, 2018

Do not track (an #OLCInnovate plea) – updated 4/30/18

At the OLC Innovate conference—a conference where I was presenting with Adam Croom about the need to be...

March 28, 2018March 28, 2018

This is the song when the sun sets

I. Song Every morning as I’m waking up, my brain picks a song and turns it up to...

March 22, 2018March 23, 2018

Hey fam—saw you facebooking…

…and I was wondering… Would you be willing to stop sharing terrible stuff? I’m not even talking about...

September 13, 2017September 13, 2017

Platforms in education: A need for criticality and hope

(Notes from my talk at the Council on Independent Colleges / ARTSTOR Consortium on Digital Resources for Teaching and...

September 6, 2017

Digital Sanctuary article in Educause Review

My article on Digital Sanctuary has been published as part of the New Horizons series of Educause Review....

June 23, 2017June 23, 2017

Locks on our bridges: Critical and generative lenses on open education

[These are my notes from a keynote I gave at Plymouth State University on June 1, 2017, as...

June 9, 2017June 9, 2017

Hidden immigrants & belonging: What do these mean for Domains?

Domains 17 just ended and my brain is brimming with ideas and questions. I need to write, to process,...

May 18, 2017May 19, 2017

Reclaiming impact: Not-yetness as a lens for resisting de-complexification [#InnovateOSU]

[Notes from my talk at The Ohio State University 2017 Innovate conference, May 16, 2017] Impact. Defined as:...

April 21, 2017July 7, 2017

Familiarity

This post may start and end in a state of confusion. I’m going to fray several threads: My 5-year Jazzercise anniversary. A...

March 3, 2017March 6, 2017

“it should be necessary to start”: Critical digital pedagogy in troubled political times

[speaking notes from my talk at the University of Edinburgh in February 2017] I want to say first...

March 1, 2017

Digital embodiment: Constructing and deconstructing the body [Part 3]

Part 1 || Part 2 Now, I promised you two stories. The second, I very uncreatively called “digital...

February 26, 2017

Digital embodiment: Constructing and deconstructing the body [Part 2]

[Notes and resources from my recent talk at the Middlebury Institute for International Studies at Monterey, as part...

February 24, 2017

Digital embodiment: Constructing and deconstructing the body [Part 1]

[Notes and resources from my recent talk at the Middlebury Institute for International Studies at Monterey, as part...

January 2, 2017January 2, 2017

One year on the AIP/Paleo diet (+ favorite recipes)

When I was a teenager, I was diagnosed with an autoimmune condition known as Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis. I could...

December 6, 2016December 7, 2016

Chapter 3 WMTRBW #HortonFreire #OpenEd16. See also: The immorality of service organizations

Leadership: I love it, and it’s heart breaking. I said this to Sonja in a meeting recently and I have...

November 29, 2016

We Make The Road by Walking: Ch 1-2 #HortonFreire

[This post is pretty personal and it may offend some people. I’m sorry about that. Please know that...

November 15, 2016November 17, 2016

Not waving, but drowning

by Stevie Smith Nobody heard him, the dead man, But still he lay moaning: I was much further...

November 15, 2016

Love / resistance

[I made a version of these statements in last week’s Future Trends Forum with Bryan Alexander. I am...

November 3, 2016

The locks on our bridges: Critical instructional design (#OpenEd16 presentation)

This excerpt is from my talk with Sean Michael Morris and Amy Slay at Open Education 2016 about...