As chair-elect of the Professional and Organizational Development Network’s ECRC (Electronic Resources and Communications Committee), I have been…
The (online) teacher’s body
At #ET4Online in July, I met a kindred spirit named Jen Ross, lecturer and academic program director for the…
A vote for unconferences
Funny thing about conferences… Most are not effective at one of their primary goals: learning. I rarely enjoy…
My summer reading
Alternately titled: Since I can’t take a vacation this summer, I’ll engage in my other favorite form of escapism:…
A community of obsessed makers: My day at Maker Faire 2012
I boarded the bike car of the 9:30 am Caltrain and ran into a wall of people and…
Coordinating without controlling…what are your thoughts?
This is my first post about Stanford. We should celebrate. While you are thinking about how to celebrate,…
Arduino? Oh yes!
This week, I spent a bit of time talking about Arduino. I talked with a dance professor about…
5 easy things you can do to your course this summer [from the archives]
The summer is a great time for redesigning or redeveloping a course. The process of redesigning, when it…
Jazzed up!
I will rarely post to this blog about Jazzercise. However, as part of the “happy life” portion of…
Learning on the beach
This weekend, I had the opportunity to join a group of Stanford students on a field trip to…
Pursuing a happiness goal
When I started working at Stanford, I was immediately drawn to an initiative called Be Well. Be Well is…
The power of making
In third grade, growing up in Brazil and homeschooled through a correspondence school called Calvert, I found that my…
Some thoughts on ed tech mixers and meetups
What do you call 120 ed tech innovation afficionados noisily crammed into a room at SF’s posh ROE…
MERLOT should look like Pinterest
I am a moderate user of Pinterest. By that I mean that I occasionally sit down with my…
Failure is always an option
Last month, at John Seeley Brown’s evocative DML2012 keynote, I was reminded of the notion of failure in…
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“Is this thing on?” What to do with student presentations [from the archives, renamed]
Admit it, student presentations can be a real disaster. I have used student presentations several times in my…
A Twitter bot for POD 2012 (and other conferences)
This week, I read 4 musings about Twitter use at conferences. I’ll describe each of the readings and…
“Learn this” and “Pin This”: The Pinterest Model for a Connected Learning Platform
On the train, returning from the DML 2012 conference in San Francisco, I am sorting through the interactions…
Return to Evernote?
Several years ago, I began using a relatively new (at the time) service called Evernote. I was a…
The scientific method, 5 ways [from the archives]
This blog post was originally published in 2011. Over the weekend, I watched They Might Be Giants’ Here Comes…
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