Today I wanted to do something special for Easter. Why not a podcast then? And for this podcast, I return to Gerard Manley Hopkins, a poet I read for the first time in the fall of 1977. It was love … Continue reading
Week 2 of the Engelbart Framework Annotation Project focuses on two excerpts from Doug Engelbart’s 1962 research report Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework. Here are the audiobook recordings for Week 2. The first excerpt, Section II parts A and B, is … Continue reading
It’s a lot to take in. Doug Engelbart’s monumental 1962 research report Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework–really a monograph, and indeed a manifesto–is dense with yearning, with ideas, with analysis, and with a kind of moral philosophy devoted to human … Continue reading
“Wisdom as a Learning Outcome.” TEDxUSagradoCorazon “Ecologies of Yearning and the Future of Open Education” “No Digital Facelifts: Thinking the Unthinkable about Open Educational Experiences” “Radio Redux.” Ignite talk at the 2015 Digital Media and Learning Conference in Los Angeles, … Continue reading
There’s a new set of four episodes from BBC Radio 4’s consistently splendid “In Our Time” series honoring the anniversary of the Royal Society. I’ve just started listening to the first one, but already it seems this series will likely … Continue reading
I’m teaching my Milton seminar this spring for the first time in a couple of years, and I want to try podcasting some of Milton’s poetry and prose as (I hope) aids to comprehension. As always, I find that recording … Continue reading
Last week Kevin Creamer, Liaison Coordinator for the University of Richmond’s Center for Teaching, Learning, and Technology, sat me down for a quick chat about information technologies in education. As you’ll hear in this podcast, Kevin was interested in some … Continue reading
So far I’ve been doing all the post-production on these Faculty Academy podcasts. That will change–time to share the joy–but it has been a tremendous learning experience for me, and it puts me in the mind of an assignment for … Continue reading
About fifteen months after Jerry Slezak introduced me to the wonders of Jon Udell, I was standing before a capacity crowd in Combs 139 introducing Jon as the keynote speaker for Faculty Academy 2006. Now, almost two months after that … Continue reading
The next podcast from the University of Mary Washington’s Faculty Academy 2006 features Rachel Smith of the New Media Consortium. Her topic: “Gaming in Education.” Rachel has inspired a number of changes in my life, including some recent investigations into … Continue reading