A semiotic interlude

Once upon a time, I went off to Austria as an exchange student. Having limited travel experience, it seemed a pretty big leap. Many years later, it’s clear to me that the Austrian and Minnesoto-American cultures are, in broad and relative strokes, much more similar than they are different. But as an inveterate researcher of [...]

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CCK08: Wait– done already?

In which I have been told several times in the past few days to “step away from the computer, and no one gets hurt…”
What with the last days of the formal Connectivism and Connective Knowledge (CCK08) course activity falling on a long U.S. holiday weekend, I’m feeling rather scattered and pulled among local and distant networks [...]

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CCK08: Is Connectivism Shiny?

Whereby I commit logical fallacies, reference ideas far outside my area of expertise, exhibit ignorance of many aspects of connectivist theory, place groups, communities and networks in a single bag, and potentially annoy a number of people.  In other words… thinking out loud. 
Whenever something new and cool and incredibly smart floats across the computer screen [...]

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CCK08: “Boring” Ustreamer ‘Fesses Up

I had the rare privilege of having my burning question about connectivism being deemed, in an unguarded moment, “boring” by one of today’s Ustream hosts. I felt so honored by this distinction that I am inspired to put together a post. So, here I am, Ustreamer 87268 (or some such number), reporting in.
My question was whether technology [...]

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