{"id":2706,"date":"2017-02-27T08:54:42","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T13:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/?p=2706"},"modified":"2017-02-27T08:54:42","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T13:54:42","slug":"a-slightly-belated-thank-you-to-bryan-alexander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/a-slightly-belated-thank-you-to-bryan-alexander\/","title":{"rendered":"A slightly belated thank you to Bryan Alexander"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bryan at the UMW Faculty Academy, 2005. Note the aura, even then.<\/p><\/div>\n

I should have done this Saturday, but Monday will have to do. Thanks, Bryan Alexander, for directing our week of digital literacy<\/a> at Open Learning ’17<\/a>. I met Bryan in January, 2004, in San Diego, at a conference of the National Learning Infrastructure Initiative, the predecessor organization to the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative. I was so inspired by Bryan’s closing talk on mobile learning that I rushed the stage afterward and secured a follow-up conversation at a local burger emporium, where I met yet another Br*an for the first time–a story for another post.<\/p>\n

Since that time, I have been very fortunate to know Bryan as a colleague, a mentor, a teacher, and a friend. The moral is clear: be a fanboy–not that I need any encouragement.<\/p>\n

Bryan did his work for Open Learning ’17 while doing all the other Paul Bunyan\/Dan’l Webster work he does: a reading group<\/a>, his writing<\/a>, his ed-futures forum<\/a>, his consulting<\/a>, his Future Trends in Technology and Education reporting<\/a>, his speaking<\/a>, strenuous home-work in his Vermont redoubt, being a loving and supportive family man, and keeping up with film, music, and various gothic frisson-producing wonderments<\/a>. How he made time for our Virginia Faculty Collaboratives project<\/a> is a secret he shares with his clones, but we are all very grateful nonetheless.<\/p>\n

Thanks for the week of digital literacy, Bryan. Or, as I have learned the Norwegians say, “thanks for that you are you.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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