Like everyone else in the known universe, I’m finishing up a grant application this weekend. I’m on the last piece, a two-page version of my curriculum vitae, and I’m citing URLs where audio of my recent presentations can be found. As I do so, I realize I need to bring audio from my February, 2007 keynote at the University of Maryland “Innovations in Teaching and Learning” conference over to my site (another good case for Jon Udell’s “hosted lifebits” idea). The good folks at Maryland have had my audio and slides up since I gave my talk there, and I’m grateful. But as Frost says, “way leads on to way,” and I can’t expect that URL to be a persistent URL (do folks still call them PURLs?), so I’ve just moved the audio over here (actually, recorded the stream off their site)–and now it’s a podcast: “Deschool, Reboot, Real School.” Here’s the PDF of my old-school PPT slides, too.
Many thanks, by the way, to the folks at Maryland. They were terrific hosts and I greatly enjoyed the opportunity to be among them.
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Good luck, Gardner.
I rarely hear anyone use “PURL.” Beyond programmers and knitters, of course.
I was going to make the knitting joke, but Bryan beat me to it. Rats.
But purl has a certain crochet to it, don’t you think?
Aha! I listened to this many months ago by some confluence of internet events and after listening to it promptly forgot where I had originally found it. So first of all, thank you! Listening to it now I realize how far along my thinking and comprehension has come (and how far it still has to go). I wonder wow many students would realize there is meaning to the title “Dr. C’s Learning Webs”? I certainly didn’t, nor did I think it had any real specific meaning. Learning to make meaning, to imagine there is meaning to be found has been on my mind lately. Makes me wonder what other things I miss on a daily basis. In any case, this is something I’ll need to listen to again.
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