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2026 2

  1. Couch to 4k (my film podcast) is now on Spotify
  2. I’m a film podcaster now

2024 1

  1. The structure of a #DiedSuddenly argument

2023 2

  1. The open argument must be fed: The peculiar case of Fox News and the pleasant smoke
  2. Reasonableness: An Introduction

2022 6

  1. Scene-Level Trope: Riot Bricks
  2. Scene-Level Trope: Voting Location Cameras Covered Up
  3. Vulnerability of Texas to Gubernatorial Vote-Counting Dispute
  4. Disinformation terraforms its information environment
  5. “Rumors are bothersome because they may turn out to be true.”
  6. Transparent wrongdoing and mundane revelations

2021 10

  1. The Information Intervention Chain: Interface Layer Example
  2. The Information Intervention Chain
  3. Tropes and Networked Digital Activism #3: How Fact-Checkers Use Knowledge of Tropes to Fact-Check Quickly (and how you could too)
  4. Tropes and Networked Digital Activism #2: The Portability and Persistence of Tropes
  5. Tropes and Networked Digital Activism #1: Trope-Field Fit
  6. Teach Information Architecture If You Care About Trust
  7. Twitter Should Cancel the Appeals Process or Make It Work (also: I’m in Twitter jail!)
  8. Normie Infiltration
  9. Microclout
  10. When it comes to disinformation, the public is a vector, not a target.

2020 4

  1. Control-F and Building Resilient Information Networks
  2. Memorizing Lists of Cognitive Biases Won’t Help
  3. The Stigmergic Myth of Social Media, or Why Thinking About Radicalization Without Thinking About Radicalizers Doesn’t Work.
  4. A New Year’s Eve Activity (and a New Year’s Day Wish)

2019 25

  1. Chatham House Sharing for OER
  2. Walkthrough for Windows App
  3. Microtargeted Political Ads are the Tranched Subprime Mortgages of Democracy
  4. It’s not the claim, it’s the frame
  5. The CBC Infolit Bot May Make People Worse at the Web
  6. 9 Comments on “Doorbell Video” and Traditional News
  7. Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers PDF
  8. Check, Please! Starter Course Released
  9. Ring Videos Create a Community Demand for Shareable Crime
  10. Does It Stick?
  11. SIFT (The Four Moves)
  12. TikTok’s Current Disinformation of Choice Is Fake Hacks
  13. Pelosi and Doubling-Tracking
  14. Using Changes in Framing to Figure Out Where to Focus Attention
  15. Introducing SIFT, a Four Moves Acronym
  16. The Curation/Search Radicalization Spiral
  17. Data Voids and the Google This Ploy: Kalergi Plan
  18. Network Heuristics
  19. Update on Check, Please!
  20. Web Literacy Across the Curriculum
  21. Educating the Influencers: The “Check, Please!” Prototype
  22. Attention Is the Scarcity
  23. The Fyre Festival and the Trumpet of Amplification
  24. Smoking out the Washington Post imposter in a dozen seconds or less
  25. Why Reputation?

2018 57

  1. Some Notes On Installing Federated Wiki On Windows
  2. “Conspiracy Theorists” in 1934 and 1961
  3. The first use of the term “conspiracy theory” is much earlier — and more interesting — than historians have thought.
  4. The Homeostatic Fallacy and Misinformation Literacy
  5. Recognition Is Futile (and also dangerous)
  6. Empower Teachers First
  7. The Tensions of Open Pedagogy
  8. Cynicism, Not Gullibility, Will Kill Our Humanity
  9. “Thinking for Yourself”
  10. In the Web’s Hyperreality, Information Is Experience
  11. Some Preliminary Results On Cynicism and Online Information Literacy
  12. How to Teach Older People Online Infolit
  13. It’s Not About the “Heat” of the Rhetoric, It’s About Its Toxicity
  14. The Persistent Myth of Insurmountable Tribalism Will Kill Us All
  15. Useful thoughts on attention and information overload from 1971 (via Simon, Deutsch, Shubik)
  16. We’re Thinking About This Backwards
  17. A Suggested Improvement to Facebook’s Information Panel: Stories “About” Not “From”
  18. GIFs as Disinformation Remedy (aka The GIF Curriculum)
  19. A Short History of CRAAP
  20. The Fast and Frugal Needs of the Online Reader
  21. Tribalism is a cognitive shortcut. Addressing it requires better shortcuts.
  22. Stop Reacting and Start Doing the Process
  23. Safety Culture and the Associated Press
  24. A Roll-Up of Digipo Resources (4 September 2018)
  25. The “Always Check” Approach to Online Literacy
  26. QAnon and Pinterest Is Just the Beginning
  27. A Provocation for the Open Pedagogy Community
  28. Newspapers On Wikipedia Update: Initial Wikidata Pass
  29. A Note about Cognitive Effort and Misinfo (Oh, and also I’m a Rita Allen Misinformation Solutions Forum Finalist)
  30. Unintended Consequences to Google Context Cards on Conspiracy Videos?
  31. Ways to Help the Newspapers On Wikipedia Project Without Setting Up a Wikipedia Account #1: Add a Resource
  32. Newspapers on Wikipedia Project: A Quick and Current Project Summary and Some Heartfelt Thank Yous
  33. Starting a Wikipedia Article on a Local Newspaper
  34. Encourage Students to Give Feedback on Google Answers
  35. Establishing the Significant History of a Newspaper on Wikipedia
  36. Announcing the Newspapers On Wikipedia Project (#NOW)
  37. Civix Releases New Online Media Literacy Videos
  38. Neartopias
  39. Google’s Big AI Advance Is… Script Theory?
  40. Taking Bearings on The Star
  41. The “Just Add Wikipedia In the Omnibar” Trick
  42. OLC Innovate Privacy Concerns
  43. Web Literacy For Student Fact-Checkers Wins MERLOT 2018 Classics Award
  44. We Should Put Fact-Checking Tools In the Core Browser
  45. False Positives and Fake News
  46. 300+ Web Searches for Your Online Literacy Class
  47. Publishers and Platforms Need to Label Genres. Now, Please.
  48. How To Read Laterally: A Lesson for New York Times Columnists Including But Not Limited to Bari Weiss
  49. Media Literacy Is About Where To Spend Your Trust. But You Have To Spend It Somewhere.
  50. The Three Acts of Online Media Literacy Lessons: A First Pass
  51. Recognition Is Futile: Why Checklist Approaches to Information Literacy Fail and What To Do About It
  52. From Precinct to Voter
  53. Computational Propaganda and Totalitarianism (A Thread)
  54. It Can Take As Little As Thirty Seconds, Seriously
  55. Instead of letting people vote on news, Facebook should adopt Google’s rater system
  56. Arsonist Birds Activity Sequence
  57. People Are Not Talking About Machine Learning Clickbait and Misinformation Nearly Enough

2017 80

  1. Some 2018 Predictions
  2. Using Google News to Verify Claims
  3. Checking Existence of Traditional News Sources Using Wikipedia
  4. The Web Is Abundant. Find Another Source.
  5. Activity: 50 Cigarettes a Day
  6. Pictures from Pinterest
  7. Assignment: Knife-Carrying Odinga Supporter
  8. Traces #33: Pizza Laundering
  9. Traces #32: Hall of Mirrors
  10. Digital Polarization on Pinterest Is Scary Aggressive
  11. Traces #31: Mobile Misinformation
  12. Assignment: Is This Really Pew?
  13. Climate-based Web Literacy Activity
  14. Traces Newsletter #23: The Mobilization State
  15. How To Participate In Digipo (September 2017 version)
  16. That Watson for OER Pitch Is Classic Information Underload
  17. When Fox News Is Not a Bad Choice
  18. A State Sales Tax on Personal Data
  19. Let’s Tax the Collection and Storage of Personal Information
  20. How the Independent created a fake news Facebook card out of a real story
  21. HIV “Dissidents” and Demand-Side Conspiracy
  22. “Students as Creators” and the Theology of the Attention Economy
  23. The Fake Headlines (September 1, 2017)
  24. Activity: Choose the Best Source of the Top Google Results
  25. Assignment: Sourcing a Quote
  26. Assignment: Titanic Photograph
  27. LazyWeb: Why Did Trust In Press Collapse in the mid-80s/early-90s?
  28. Converting a Word Doc into a Digipo Article
  29. A Call to Info-Environmentalism
  30. 60-Second Check: Aircraft Waste Hits Cruise Ship
  31. Information Underload
  32. We’ve Made It Ridiculously Easy to Contribute to the Digital Polarization Initiative
  33. How to Find Out If a “Local” Newspaper Site Is Fake (Using a New-ish Google Feature)
  34. Minimum Viable Public Project
  35. The Persistence Argument for Running Your Own Server Is Wrong
  36. What you can do in three minutes on DigiPo to make the world better.
  37. Make Servers Dumb Again
  38. We Have a Real Shot to Fix Our Information Environment
  39. The Three Who Intervened
  40. Activity: Evaluate a Website
  41. Activity: Confirming the Nixon Witch-Hunt Headline
  42. Innovation vs. Invention
  43. The Annotation Layer As a Marketplace for Context: A Proposal
  44. Auto-Annotating News Articles To Scaffold Media Literacy Skills In Students
  45. Introducing the #CheckPlease Tag
  46. Corner-Clipping
  47. Spot the Ad Content
  48. A list of articles currently on Digipo
  49. Why I Use Reverse Image Searches to Teach
  50. Polarization and Expressive Responding
  51. Novel Reading
  52. Today’s Reverse Image Challenge: Forced Prayer
  53. UMW Talk, Condensed
  54. Creating a Wikipedia for Fact-checking
  55. Obamaphones and Misinformation
  56. Web Literacy Assignment: Jewish Population
  57. My Lazy Manifesto On This Post-Truth Moment: Technologies for Collaborative Exploration
  58. The Power of Explaining to Others
  59. Pulling the Moves Together
  60. Misinformation May Be the Disease, But Curiosity Is the Cure
  61. You Are Not the Hero of This Story
  62. Beyond WordPress
  63. Two Feeds, Two Scarcities
  64. Google Should Be a Librarian, not a Family Feud Contestant
  65. Doubt Versus a Bayesian Outlook
  66. How “News Literacy” Gets the Web Wrong
  67. Searching News Program Audio
  68. Against Expressive Social Media
  69. The Lead-Crime Hypothesis and a Gripe About Mobile
  70. Misinformation Is a Norovirus and the Web Is a Cruise Ship
  71. Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers Is Out
  72. Narrative Neediness
  73. Cleanup Time
  74. Road Trip
  75. The Impulse to Dive Deeper
  76. Monopolistic Digital Capitalism and Its Discontents
  77. Amazon Might Be Your Next News Environment
  78. Finding an Eagle Attack
  79. Today’s Challenge: Trace Viral Photos Upstream
  80. Checking Internet-Based Claims

2016 104

  1. Why You’re Fooling Yourself About Fooling Yourself About Fake News
  2. Finding the squishy middle (before fact-checking everything drives you nuts)
  3. Tracing Photo Back to a Personal Account
  4. Levering Up a Google Search
  5. Yes, Digital Literacy. But Which One?
  6. Would You Give Google a Passing Grade on Its AI Project?
  7. How to Analyze a News Claim and Publish the Analysis on Digipo.io
  8. Quick Note on the Recent Buzzfeed Study
  9. Announcing the Digital Polarization Initiative, an Open Pedagogy Project
  10. Familiarity = Truth, a Reprise
  11. Wikity, One Year Later
  12. Fooled by Recency: Hoaxers Increment Dates on Fake Stories
  13. Latest In Rebuttal Shopping: Trump’s IQ
  14. Scanning the Facebook Feed as a Rebuttal Shopping Experience
  15. Facebook’s Wall Metaphor and Political Polarization
  16. Maybe Rethink the Cult of Virality?
  17. Banning Ads Is Nice, but the Problem Is Facebook’s Underlying Model
  18. The “They Had Their Minds Made Up Anyway” Excuse
  19. Facebook and Twitter Are Probably Making Google a Liar as Well
  20. Despite Zuckerberg’s Protests, Fake News Does Better on Facebook Than Real News. Here’s Data to Prove It.
  21. Facebook Broke Democracy, but the Fix Is Harder Than People Realize.
  22. Notes on How Social Media Broke Our Democracy
  23. I’m Writing a Book On the Disinfotopia of Current Social Media
  24. Here’s My Problem With Hypothes.is
  25. Neoliberalism and Textbooks (I promise this is better than it sounds)
  26. Internet of Broken Things
  27. Opening Up the National Academies Could Radically Expand OER Impact
  28. Slow-Writing with Wikity
  29. New Directions in Open Education
  30. Storage-Neutral Apps and Web Applications Are Not That Hard
  31. The Web Stream Was Designed for Information Underload
  32. EDUCAUSE Review New Horizons Editor
  33. Wikity Updates (0.4)
  34. Choral Explanations for Student Success: A Proposal
  35. Institutionalized
  36. Putting Student-Produced OER at the Heart of the Institution
  37. “A new mode of obtaining power of mind over mind, in a quantity hitherto without example”
  38. How Document Decomposition Helps Overcome Bias
  39. Derp
  40. Academic Torrents
  41. The Dwindling Promise of Social Media
  42. Slack Is All Hose And No Bucket
  43. Beyond the Export Model
  44. The Simple Vision
  45. Adding Images in Wikity
  46. Using Simple Markdown in Wikity
  47. Wikity on GitHub
  48. Choral Explanations on the (Not-So) Cheap
  49. Choral Explanations and OER: A Summary of Thinking to Date
  50. The Problem With Zuckerberg Telepathy
  51. How My “Disarm Hate” Slogan Went Viral
  52. Is “The Web As a Tool For Thought” a Gating Item?
  53. Stereotype Threat and Police Recruitment
  54. Predicting the Future
  55. Plans vs. Planning
  56. The Textbook Duet
  57. Blogging as Multi-Track
  58. A Reminder: What Your Students Do Is Hard
  59. Prism: A Proposal for a Choral Approach to OER
  60. Superpowers Take Time
  61. Mixed-Course Students Are the Norm, Not the Exception
  62. “Grit” and Personalization
  63. Communities Need Tools to Protect Themselves From Scale
  64. New WYSIWII Editor Added to Wikity
  65. De-Legitimization
  66. A Quora for Open Educational Resources?
  67. Choral Explanations
  68. We Have Personalization Backwards
  69. Simon’s Watchmakers and the Future of Courseware
  70. Wikity 0.31 Released (Bug-fix for Quote Problems)
  71. To Make Content Findable, Put It Everywhere
  72. Deep and Lovely
  73. Wikity Version 0.3 Released
  74. Retweeting and Comprehension
  75. Answer to Leigh Blackall
  76. The Missing Jury
  77. The Opioid Epidemic
  78. Intentionally Finding Knowledge Gaps
  79. Chatbots for First-Year Student Success
  80. Bribing Students to Take Fewer Courses
  81. Trump University’s Online Materials Are a Lot Better Than Your University’s Online Materials
  82. New Forking Syntax on Wikity
  83. Bring Your Bookmarks into the Hypertext Age
  84. Bootstrapping the Library
  85. What Wikity Daily Use Looks Like
  86. Cultural Resistance
  87. The Tragedy of the Stream
  88. What Are the Close-to-Best Examples of Blog and Wiki-Based Classes in Each Discipline?
  89. Can Blogs and Wiki Be Merged?
  90. Why Learning Can’t Be “Like a Video Game”
  91. Connected Copies, Part Two
  92. Amazon, OER, and SoundCloud
  93. Connected Copies, Part One
  94. SoundCloud and Connected Copies
  95. An End to the Den Wars?
  96. Connected Copies
  97. You Should Be Able to Browse the Web Through Your Own Website
  98. JSON-Based Transclusion, and WordPress as the Universal Reader
  99. Capable Clients and the WordPress API
  100. The Future of Empowerment Is On the Client
  101. Quick Edit Functionality in Wikity
  102. Wikipedia Is the One Impossible Thing
  103. The Recommender’s Paradox
  104. Join Code for Wikity

2015 63

  1. An Idle Thought on Differential Identity
  2. Why Facebook Won, and Other Hard Truths
  3. Markdown added to Wikity
  4. Do Instructors Search for Open Educational Resources at the Last Possible Moment?
  5. Clint Lalonde’s Sustainability Plan
  6. How Federated Open Educational Resources Could Work
  7. Wikity and Pinterest
  8. Introducing Wikity
  9. Shuttleworth Funded!
  10. Calypso is the Future of Personal Cyberinfrastructure
  11. Federated WordPress
  12. Probabilistic vs. Deterministic Thought
  13. Pill-Splitting the Textbook
  14. Asking What Students Spend on Textbooks Is the Wrong Question
  15. Why Renewable Assignments Must Be Recyclable As Well
  16. Inhospitable Writing
  17. Write for the Federated Library Project!
  18. My Daughter Made a Cute Piece of OER on Art History. Discuss.
  19. The Banal Uselessness of the Utopian Binary Critique
  20. The Garden and the Stream: A Technopastoral
  21. Building a Pseudo-Wiki on Tumblr
  22. Wriggling Cat
  23. Accruing Associations
  24. Toward a Less Self-Assertive Web
  25. This Is My Point About the Stream
  26. You Get to Decide What the Big One Is: A Clarification
  27. The Zombie Curriculum (a possible pivot)
  28. Quicker Site Claim Process for Federated Wiki Classes
  29. A Simple Proposal for Killing Comments with Annotated Links
  30. Educational Unbundling and the Culture of Endless Hustle
  31. The Really Big One: A Course In Educational Technology for Fall ’15
  32. Hate-Selling Our Students
  33. The Five Elements of the Socratic Website
  34. Adopting a Library Metaphor for Sharing
  35. Follow-up: Reader as Link Author
  36. Beyond Conversation
  37. Calling All Hackers
  38. Facebook as the Anti-News Platform
  39. Lowest Content Denominator
  40. Legos
  41. Wikifying Annotations
  42. Decentralized Centralization: Rosters in Federated Wiki
  43. Mashup-ageddon is a Massive Blackboard Fail
  44. Geeking out as a conversational paradigm
  45. The OER Case for Federated Wiki
  46. We Are Not In the Content Business, We Are In the Community Business
  47. A Thankful Wikipedia
  48. Simple Generative Ideas
  49. The Simplest Federated Database That Could Possibly Work
  50. That Time Berners-Lee Got Knocked Down to a Poster Session
  51. Twitter’s Gasoline
  52. PowerPoint Remix Rant
  53. Picketty, Remix, and the Most Important Student Blog Comment of the 21st Century
  54. Critique by Redesign and Revision
  55. Paper Thoughts and the Remix Hypothesis
  56. Age of the Incunable
  57. People Have the Star Trek Computer Backwards
  58. A Portfolio of Connections
  59. “Users”
  60. Rethinking Wiki Lifecycle: Sites as Bounded Conversations
  61. A Fedwiki Happening on Teaching Machines Featuring Audrey Watters
  62. The Fedwiki User Innovation Toolkit
  63. Federated Wiki, Slow Cooperation, and a Kindle Parable

2014 112

  1. Fedwiki Happening: I Don’t Know How to Start, So Let’s Just Type
  2. Helping the Right Ideas Find One Another (FEDWIKI HAPPENING)
  3. Wikiality
  4. Steal the Package / Idea Mining
  5. Turning a Stream into a Lake
  6. Shorter Federated Wiki for TL;DRers
  7. Federated Education: New Directions in Digital Collaboration
  8. A Kinder, Gentler Attention Economy
  9. Design Patterns and the Coming Revolution in Course Design
  10. Gamergate
  11. TL521 Is Rocking it on Federated Wiki
  12. What Iterative Writing Looks Like (and why it’s important)
  13. Easier
  14. Quality of Input
  15. Maybe the reason people don’t use LMS collaboration tools is the tools are not collaborative
  16. Course Management Workflow in Federated Wiki
  17. Convivial Tools and Connected Courses
  18. The LMS in Historical Perspective
  19. Reply to D’Arcy
  20. Learning Design Pattern #121: You’re Doing It Wrong
  21. Learning Design Patterns as an Alternative Model of Course Design
  22. Peak StreamMode
  23. Using Federated Wiki in the Classroom: Getting Started
  24. Copying a Whole Site Is Remarkably Easy In Smallest Federated Wiki
  25. Plagiarism Derp Reaches Epic Levels
  26. Open Licences and SFW
  27. The Web is Broken and We Should Fix It
  28. The Part of Wiki Culture the Classroom Forgot
  29. Blue Hampshire’s Death Spiral
  30. The OS-Based Lifestream Will Kill the Mega-Site, Continued
  31. All the Versions of the Amelia Bedelia Wikipedia Entry
  32. Amelia Bedelia’s Hats Are Not the Problem
  33. Plagairism and Evolution and Attribution Statements
  34. Federated Wiki for Distributed Notetaking (and the surprising pedagogical implications of that)
  35. Reclaim Hackathon
  36. Doug Engelbart’s Grocery List
  37. The Universal JSON Canvas and Ben’s Five Star Plugin
  38. No More Secret Sauce Analytics
  39. The Original Factory Education Was a Personalized Learning Experiment
  40. Interface, and the First Sixty Minutes
  41. #indiewebcamp
  42. Explaining Federation Through Family Movie Night, Part I
  43. NeoVictorian Computing, and the Cult of the Lowest Common Denominator
  44. Two Minute Federated Wiki: Sharing Across Unrelated Wikis
  45. Personalized Learning, 1700s Style
  46. Why Personalized Learning Fails
  47. Smallest Federated Wiki as a Universal JSON Canvas
  48. One Minute Smallest Federated Wiki: Understanding Recent Changes
  49. One Minute Federated Wiki: Link Resolution From Journal History
  50. Name-Based Approaches to Networks, and Why They are Crucial to the Personal Web
  51. Minimally Invasive Assessment and the New Canvas Suite
  52. One Minute Smallest Federated Wiki: Looking at Specific Versions of Pages
  53. One Minute Federated Wiki: Pulling Something From Twitter
  54. Making Class Wikis vs. Thinking in Wiki
  55. Flipped Classroom, 1972-style (and early visions of connected home computing)
  56. Pressey’s Automatic Teacher
  57. Student Curation in Smallest Federated Wiki
  58. Letting Lots of People Host Your Stuff In Their Collections Is a Good Survival Strategy
  59. The Answer to Project-based Work in MOOCs is Federation
  60. The Hidden History of Online Learning
  61. Smallest Federated Wiki as an Alternate Vision of the Web
  62. Napster, “All the Rave” (Notes)
  63. Dokuwiki Sychronization Tool (Screencast). Too, too good.
  64. Why the Comprehensive Attribution Statement Makes Sense
  65. The Wrong Robots, Illustrated
  66. We had a different system once. It worked pretty well.
  67. Google+ will die, because Google already owns the one lifestream that matters.
  68. Federated Wiki, explanation as of April 2014
  69. Your Diploma Just Got Downgraded. But You Can Upgrade It At a 20% Discount!
  70. The Sieve Manufacture Continues at Udacity
  71. Are Blogs the Vinyl Records of the Internet?
  72. 228 Summaries
  73. Using ProProfs With Dokuwiki
  74. Experience Without Humility Is Not Very Helpful At All
  75. Some Notes on DokuWiki Setup for Academic Settings: Spam
  76. If Your Product Is So Data-Centric, Maybe It Should Have Data Export?
  77. Hacking and Reuse: A Regrouping
  78. This is what I mean by new modes of sharing (Fedwiki meets Dropbox Carousel)
  79. Gruber: “It’s all the Web”
  80. The First Web Browser Was a Storage-Neutral App
  81. Teaching the Distributed Flip [Slides & Small Rant]
  82. Unhosted
  83. The Route To Personal Cyberinfrastructure Is Through Storage-Neutral Apps
  84. Doing Big Data and Analytics Right
  85. Like Tumblr for Wikis (Sample Implementation. Downloadable Code.)
  86. Truth, Durability, and Big Data
  87. Goal: Make Wiki Page Reuse as Easy and Natural as Reblogging on Tumblr
  88. Google Apps For Education Sued For Data-Mining Students
  89. What the Heck Is Going On With Lesson Plan Searches?
  90. Connexions News: New Editor, Big Announcement on March 31
  91. Fauxnership and the Fifth R
  92. E-textbooks and LMS/Device Integration
  93. Spritz, Modes of Reading, and Why Open Matters
  94. Current Design of the Federated Classroom Wiki as of Today
  95. Five Uses For the Federated Classroom Wiki
  96. Learning Is Not One Thing
  97. The Federated OER Wiki Is Up and Running
  98. Is Paying Adjuncts Crap Killing Technological Innovation?
  99. Dan Meyer Wrote Something Brilliant the Other Day
  100. Online Learning Is Not Groundhog Day, It’s Memento
  101. The Harvard “MOOCs for Alumni” Thing Parties Like It’s 1999
  102. Why I Don’t Edit Wikis (And Why You Don’t Either, and What We Can Do About That)
  103. “Vertical Social Networks” [pd;dr]
  104. A Pedagogy of the Edges (or, the Wrong Robots)
  105. A Better Way to Build a EdTech Support Wiki (or, Doctor, Heal Thyself)
  106. Forking an Academic Wiki Should Be a Basic Student Right. Discuss.
  107. A Federated Approach Could Make OER More Numerous, Findable, and Attributable
  108. Open Collaborative Software is a Lot Cheaper at Scale. Why Don’t We Harness That More?
  109. The OS-based Lifestream Will Kill the Web-based Mega-Service, Part the Third
  110. Edxx
  111. Issue Hubs /Water106
  112. Revenge of the OS

2013 96

  1. Synchronous Online is About To Get Much, Much Better
  2. (Educational) Research Isn’t Broken But the Culture Is
  3. Use of MOOC Community Features in Blended Scenarios, Dan Ariely Edition
  4. Can People Designing Multiple Choice Tests for MOOCs Please Study Designing Multiple Choice Tests?
  5. Why the Why Matters
  6. Stocks, Flows, and the 80% Non-traditional Figure
  7. Short Notes on the Absence of Theory
  8. MRI 13
  9. Counting History PhD Employment
  10. “Experimented On”
  11. Thrun Enters Burgeoning Sieve Market
  12. Educational Technology and the Sources of Innovation
  13. That “Flipped Classrooms May Not Work” Story
  14. For Precisely This Moment
  15. The $10,000 Degree: A Response, Part II
  16. Some Notes on Using MOOCs for Blended Instruction
  17. Is Domain of One’s Own a platform?
  18. Rediscovering (Semi-)Social Bookmarking
  19. A Plan for a $10K Degree: A Response
  20. Second (Third?) Tumblr Linklog Attempt
  21. A Simple, Less Mathematical Way to Understand the Course Signals Issue
  22. Why the Course Signals Math Does Not Add Up
  23. Commitment
  24. The Myth of the All-in-one
  25. Peak Higher Ed and the Age of Diminished Expectations
  26. Password Mental Algorithms
  27. Sometimes Failure Is Just Failure
  28. Numeracy, Motivated Cognition, and Networked Learning
  29. Waterfeed Slideshare Walk-through (Slideshare Edition)
  30. Six Second Science Vines
  31. The Ticking Time Bomb in the President’s Higher Education Proposal
  32. The FemTechNet DOCC, Water106, and Our Distributed EdTech Future
  33. A Short Story About How a Network Corrects Itself
  34. Water106: A cMOOC-like Approach to Issues-based Education (Now with whitepaper!)
  35. WaterFeed: Crowdsourced Article Summaries as Meaningful Coursework
  36. Effect of Dependents on Pay-as-You-Earn/Pay it Forward Scenarios
  37. Someone Has to Model Pay It Forward and It’s Incredibly Pathetic It Has to Be Me
  38. Learning Styles vs. Introversion
  39. The Weirdest Excuse Udacity Gave
  40. xMOOC Communities Should Learn From cMOOCs
  41. MOOC Use in Blended Scenarios: Some Surprises and Opportunities
  42. EdStat Watch: Old vs. Young People with Degrees
  43. Designing Open Materials Intentionally for the Blended Classroom
  44. The Distributed Flip (Presentation for InstructureCon 2013)
  45. Why Use Open Course Frameworks? [Slideshare Presentation w/ Audio, 20 mins]
  46. Chromebook as Convivial Tool
  47. Justin Reich Goes to Work for HarvardX
  48. Refactoring Coursera
  49. As we were saying… (Coursera as Provider of Courseware)
  50. The Education Conflation (or how the problems at the top tell us nothing about the bottom)
  51. Reply to Cole: Pushing Back vs. Pushing Forward
  52. The Adult Education Market is Imploding
  53. Downes on the “Wrapped MOOC”
  54. The Bigger Picture is Corporate-Built Online Delivered Through Traditional F2F Institutions
  55. Our Unbelievably Provincial Way of Talking Education
  56. Creating the Education Death Star
  57. Is the “Distributed Flip” part of the “Great Rebranding”?
  58. Community College Is the Disruptor That Is Here Today
  59. Distributed Flips, Pacing, and MOOCs as OCW
  60. I Have a Research Question About MOOCs That Your Elite Institution Can Answer in Under an Hour
  61. Peak Demo is Real
  62. Thank you, Cathy
  63. The Bloat
  64. Intro Psych OOC Rolls On Without Me
  65. Introducing the “Distributed Flip”
  66. OER as Snapshot vs. OER as “Runnable Code”
  67. OERs Rule, MOOCs DROOL
  68. It’s Disruptive Policy not Disruptive Technology
  69. “If you want to be truly useful in the world, think beyond rarefied air”
  70. Thoughts on To Save Everything, Click Here (and Higher Education)
  71. The Point Where the Toothpaste Will Not Go Back in the Tube
  72. I Have No Idea What That Electrodermal Study Means for Education
  73. Schumpeterian “Creative Destruction” and the Perfection of Market Imperfections
  74. I’m Changing Jobs
  75. An Institution Is Not an Invention: Heretical Thoughts on Mitra
  76. The Oddity of MOOCs as OER and the Issue of Integration Cost
  77. Your Institution Is Paying Millions of Dollars for Course Design (And You Don’t Even Know It)
  78. Donors Trust and Higher Education
  79. Cerego: A decay-aware memorization tool
  80. Lawrence Cremin on Educational Technology in 1989
  81. Maybe Colleges Should Worry Less About MOOCs and More About Textbook Companies?
  82. B. F. Skinner on Teaching Machines (1954)
  83. That “Janitor With a Degree” Study
  84. Both MOOCs and Textbooks Will End Up Courseware
  85. Centralized Course, Distributed Sections (mOOC Clarification)
  86. Here it comes
  87. Between Micropolitics and Martyrdom
  88. Self-Education
  89. The Odd Failure of Customized Learning
  90. The Hidden PowerSchool Revolution
  91. The mixably Open Online Course (mOOC), Part 1.5: OER and Integration Cost
  92. Education Analysts Have Predicted 7 of the Last 0 Mobile Revolutions
  93. The mixably Open Online Course (mOOC). Part I: Module Structure.
  94. Are conversation and customization orthogonal? Some thoughts on the Rocketship Schools announcement.
  95. Random Username Generator & Magic FERPA Solution
  96. Prepping for the Wrong Future, Residential Online Edition

2012 144

  1. Interleaving, Threads, and the MIXABLE MOOC
  2. Needless competition is what is killing higher education, Followers of the Apocalyspe edition
  3. Openness is still the only superpower
  4. Threads and the Wrappable MOOC
  5. MOOCs after the MOOC is done
  6. Our Mission in a Time of “Disruption”
  7. A Practical (and Real) Question About CC-NC
  8. A Perfect Term Paper Assignment from Kurt Vonnegut
  9. Introducing the Feed-Forward xMOOC (Intro Psych Edition)
  10. Residential Online is the Future of Your Institution (2tor Edition)
  11. Clay Shirky says xMOOCs = OCW + Cohorts
  12. OER and Iterative Improvement
  13. Coursera praises MOOC-wrapping as they attempt to ban it
  14. How Coursera Could Walk the Talk About MOOC-wrapping
  15. Who is accountable at Coursera?
  16. Unbundling vs. Embedding: Approaches to reuse of integrated course objects
  17. Scoring Self-Study Quizzes Online, an IF-AT Model
  18. You could do this with MOOCs too
  19. Coursera, CC-NC, and OCW
  20. xMOOCs = OCW + Cohorts
  21. How TED Culture Destroyed the World, Literally
  22. UMW & Event-ness, Revisited
  23. Cost Disease vs. The Fall of the Faculty
  24. Outflow issues and “Traditional Students”
  25. Only 16% of Students “Traditional”? Not exactly.
  26. Productionist Models and Education
  27. xMOOCs Won’t Be Elite For Long
  28. Economies of Not-so-Scale and Marginal Costs of Not-Quite-Zero
  29. MOOC-land Through the Residential Online Prism
  30. Two Types of Unbundling (and which one we should worry about)
  31. Why We Shouldn’t Talk MOOCs as Meritocracies
  32. MOOC Follow-ons
  33. The Best Classroom Technology to Buy Is a Classroom
  34. How MOOCs Could Kill Higher Education
  35. True of Higher Education As Well
  36. Course Signals and Analytics
  37. Beloit Mindset Painfully Wrong On Radio
  38. What drives me crazy about student debt articles
  39. Coercion and Online Communties
  40. Teaching is the enforcement of norms, we should deal with that.
  41. Mean, Median, and Cutpoint Percentages?
  42. True of EdTech as Well
  43. Lehrer’s Dylan, Information Literacy, and Van Halen’s Brown M&M’s
  44. Laptops and Class Attention
  45. Microsoft’s New Site Outlook.com Organizes All Your Social Activity (and initially, I’m impressed)
  46. The Post-Content LMS (Caution: 20-Page Whitepaper)
  47. The Bandcamp Model for Social Media
  48. George Washington’s Vision for a National University
  49. What People Mean When they Complain About Khan Academy
  50. Why Google Doesn’t Render Memory Obsolete
  51. The Residential Online Consensus Builds
  52. Touchstone Values, Population
  53. Residential Online, a Reintroduction
  54. Online Residential and the End of Course Scarcity
  55. How Much Does EdX *Really* Cost?
  56. Amazon.com, Interlibrary Loan, and MACCs
  57. Interlibrary Loan is the Prototypical Red Balloon Project
  58. Screw MOOCs, Let’s Do MANICs.
  59. The NY Times is Ridiculously Sloppy in Talking About College Cost
  60. Peter Thiel Looks to Hire College Grad with “High GPA” from a “Top-tier University”
  61. Statistical Reasoning BEFORE Statistical Methods
  62. We Built the Pineapple, Not Pearson.
  63. You are the “product” at your local bar as well
  64. WordPress eTextbooks
  65. Quantitative Reasoning MOOC Update
  66. A Note on Farm Share and Subgroups
  67. How Not To Do a Graph: Distribution of U.S. Food Dollar
  68. Comparison of the Day: SIDS and Prone Sleeping in Norway
  69. Choosing definitions: BMI vs. DXA (or, Why BMI Is Not a Lie)
  70. Comparison of the Day: Unemployment by College Major
  71. Mental Experiments and the Mancovery
  72. When Percentages Go Wrong
  73. Comparison of the Day: Conservative vs. Liberal Trust of Science
  74. Comparison of the Day: CFL vs. Incandescent Mercury Pollution
  75. Comparison of the Day: BMI/Mortality J-Curve
  76. Pro-Privacy Viruses
  77. Does More Books Mean More Titles or More Editions? (A critique of that graph going around)
  78. Comparison of the Day: Heavy Metal Bands per 100,000 People
  79. Comparison of the Day: Barefoot Running
  80. Blackboard, Moodle, and the Commodity LMS
  81. Comparison of the Day: Gas Prices
  82. That Millennial Study and Baselines
  83. The Golden Rule of Comparison and the ACA
  84. Plenary Workshop at NELIG: What is Critical Thinking, and Why Is It So Hard to Teach?
  85. Scary Chart of the Day: Sources of Health Insurance
  86. Comparing Porn Prosecutions
  87. Number Needed to Treat!
  88. More Confused Credit Card vs. Student Debt Reporting
  89. Rob Cook on Evaluating Epidemiological Studies
  90. Straw Men
  91. The Difference Between Median Student Debt and What the Median Student Owes
  92. Patrick Casey on Checking Media Stats
  93. Medical Student Debt is a Significant Subpopulation of Student Debt
  94. Stinking Badges
  95. Mean vs. Median Student Loan Debt
  96. The New College Completion Site and Disruptive Change
  97. College Completion Rates vs. College Attainment Rates
  98. Does Dartmouth Affect New Hampshire’s Student Debt Rates?
  99. Example COMPARABLE Analysis: College Graduate Debt
  100. Repeat After Me: The Dose Makes the Poison
  101. Behind the Numbers – Nigel Hawkes
  102. Seniors say they sleep better than younger adults [self-report bias]
  103. Manifesto for Teaching Online
  104. Mental Experiments and Santorum’s Atheist Factories
  105. Controlling for Cyclical Effects
  106. The Chemistry Behind Summer Gas Price Hikes
  107. Longitudinal Quintiles by Percentage
  108. Preface to Making Fair Comparisons
  109. Dan Meyer on How to Rewrite Textbook Math Problems
  110. Comparing Election Spending
  111. Liberal Arts and Transfer
  112. Happiness
  113. Randomness
  114. I want to do this in a class….
  115. Divided Attention During Lecture
  116. Concept Inventories and Dan Meyer’s Linear Modeling Exercise
  117. Comparing Electoral Behavior
  118. Fireside Tutorials and Punk Economics
  119. Obesity and C-Section StatLit Materials
  120. Hill’s nine criteria for causal association
  121. Gallup 1946
  122. Problems of Definition: Elsevier’s Prices
  123. Skewness
  124. Ecological Validity
  125. Simpson’s Paradox
  126. A good example of age as confounder
  127. Predictive Efficiency
  128. Incidence, Prevalence, and the Obama Job Record
  129. Fromswing votersviailovechartsthis is a great example for students of how longitudinal measurement is sometimes used in polling to understand the effect of a specific event the post speech numbers alo
  130. Diagnostic vs spectral markers from principles of medical statisticsdiagnostic markers are about whether the disease is present whereas spectral markers deal with severity and stage
  131. ‘Adrift’ in Adulthood: Students Who Struggled in College Find Life Harsher After Graduation
  132. Infant mortality and choice of a base
  133. Tutoring at Scale Sighting
  134. On Sex After Prostate Surgery, Confusing Data [Problems with Term Definition]
  135. Are we winning or losing the “War on Cancer”?
  136. How Visa Predicts Divorce
  137. Udacity and the future of online universities
  138. A nice summary on mean median mode range and standard deviation from basic statistics for thebehavioralsciencesfrom heiman
  139. The Numbers Game
  140. Researching my health statistics class and found this greatwalk throughof the issues of sensitivity and specificity in medical test design and interpretation clear easy to read and suitable for everyo
  141. I8217ve been playing around with cognitive disfluency in slide design for my class lately trying to solve a conundrumthe problem is this 8212 we know from research that reading materials that introduc
  142. From a n whitehead8217s an introduction to mathematics a brilliant early reflection on what we now see as a system 1system 2 problem 8220it is a profoundly erroneous truism repeated by all copy books
  143. Hello world!
  144. Keynes, Anti-Semite? Really?

2011 147

  1. Why the I Love Charts post is the most beautiful thing I’ve read today
  2. Klout wins for this year’s stupidest bar chart
  3. A Herd Immunity to Nonsense
  4. Cognitive Bias and Education as a Public Good
  5. Evidence-Based and the Marginal Cost of Zero
  6. From obama8217s 2012 campaign blog i am glad to see them standing up for what they accomplished here instead of running from it this is truly something that the administration should be proud ofguardi
  7. Semantic Mapping vs. Pictorial Cues
  8. Stanovich on Conflict and Critical Thinking
  9. Openness as a Privilege Multiplier and the MIT Certificates
  10. Base Rate, Revisited
  11. Moonwalking with Einstein
  12. Higher Education is Already a Voucher System
  13. Badges
  14. The idea that you can just put stuff out there, and that it will magically be effective and used effectively — there’s just no evidence of that,” Twigg says. Collecting evidence requires integrating with college classrooms, which requires scale and support, which requires money, she says. Lots of it
  15. Openness as a Privilege Multiplier
  16. A Statistical Literacy Concept Inventory
  17. Active Learning Not Associated with Student Learning in a Random Sample of College Biology Courses
  18. Juliette Culver is a Freaking Genius
  19. the briefing room: Canadian university considers radical change
  20. A real paper really wrote this
  21. But this is what I see as the next wave: demonize the public schools, create this marketplace where people think, instead of thinking of the common good, instead of thinking of community, instead of thinking what’s good for our children, we say, what’s in it for me? What about my child? Forget about
  22. On Borders
  23. Secretary of Education Urges Colleges to Rein In Costs
  24. The Studying Gap – International Edition
  25. The Studying Gap
  26. Canadian students more in student loan debt than American students
  27. Rising College Costs Are Due Largely to Books, Room, and Board, Study Finds
  28. Don’t FEAR the FERPA
  29. Utnereaderthe new york city crime rate famously plummeted in the mid 1990s under the watch of police chief william bratton who introduced a computerized mapping system called compstat to help cops tra
  30. Radio Lives, But Why?
  31. True of Connectivism Too?
  32. Critical Thinking and Clickers
  33. The State and its Monopoly on Violence
  34. On the basis of that research, Ms. Howard calls for a “fundamental shift” in how writing is taught. Professors should focus more on starting the research process collaboratively with students, she says. They should select a few complex sources and explore them with the whole class. “What that means
  35. Efficiency = Feedback / Cost
  36. Two Educational Contexts
  37. Quality time
  38. Pinker on Statistical Literacy
  39. Canvas Instructure and the de-commodification of the LMS
  40. Why teens are wired for risk
  41. Education and Start-ups
  42. That people can see goods and services in the shop window but have no money to buy them is the classic failure of capitalism. That people have money but there are no goods in the shop window is the classic failure of socialism. Not to be too simplistic but our current problem looks more like the fir
  43. I don8217t think you can call it remediation anymore when 13 of your students require it at some point the problem is not the students or the high schools but that we8217ve built a higher education sy
  44. From klein8217s the student debt crisis in one chartarticle here
  45. The Partisan and the Political
  46. It’s Not How Many Followers You Have, It’s Who Follows You
  47. Inequality and economic growth from the imf which i hope is using this to rethink its approach8230
  48. The crowdsourcing scalability problem (or the thinness of the cognitive surplus gruel)
  49. Leisure leaf diving with fam unit on a fine new england autumn weekend
  50. Critiquing the MetaMovement
  51. World’s Simplest Stimulus Plan: Student Loan Holiday?
  52. Occupy Wall Street protesters irked by rising student debt in U.S.
  53. Ed Roulette Project Is Off and Running
  54. Jobs / Joggers
  55. Federal Judge: Streaming video online to students is same as classroom screening
  56. Using Screensavers to Test Engagement
  57. Institutions Matter
  58. I tried to post this at David Wiley’s blog
  59. Why the State Money for Education Is Not Coming Back, Cont’d
  60. Why There Is No Sound For This Age
  61. Purpose-driven OER
  62. It’s not so much a case of “Here Comes Everybody”, as of “Everybody Was Here All Along”. People aren’t late to this party, technology and business are.
  63. The Spamonyms Arrive at Google Plus
  64. Encarta Price Curve of Death
  65. On George Siemens’s Duplication Theory of Value
  66. Ed Roulette
  67. Smart Use of Cognitive Disfluency Goes Mainstream
  68. NH to make $35 million in state agency cuts [Healthcare vs. Higher Ed., Again]
  69. Peer Instruction Failure
  70. Scholarships Go Disproportionately To White Students
  71. Healthcare swallows everything
  72. The Edupunk’s Guide to a DIY Credential: A Review by Someone Else
  73. Increased Course Structure Improves Performance in Introductory Biology
  74. Do pre-tests boost achievement in online courses?
  75. Informal Statistical Inference
  76. Openness and Analytics
  77. AASCU, Red Balloon & National Course Collaborations
  78. Hattie’s Table of Effect Sizes
  79. You will do what you are told, until the rights are sold…
  80. Worker=Hipster Redux
  81. The Benefits of Using Clickers in Small-Enrollment Seminar-Style Biology Courses
  82. Single-Concept Clicker Question Sequences
  83. Did OER teach millions of people the wrong physics?
  84. Spamonyms
  85. Why Self-Reported Evaluations Are Evil
  86. The great body of physical science, a great deal of the essential fact of financial science, and endless social and political problems are only accessible and only thinkable to those who have had a sound training in mathematical analysis, and the time may not be very remote when it will be understoo
  87. Quantitative Literacy Hits the New York Times Op-Ed Page
  88. This is part of what drives me crazy about debates around charter schools and “choice” in the United States. Every prosperous family in the Washington, DC metro area is exercising public school choice when they decide where to live.
  89. We Need A Taxonomy Of MOOCs
  90. On The Innovative University
  91. Xeni Jardin stops her Google public posts
  92. Bill the Cat Unveils the EdCamp Keene Hashtag
  93. Cognitive surplus watch
  94. Schoolchildren Can Also Learn Complex Subject Matters On Their Own, Researchers Find
  95. Publishing Gives Hints of Revival, Data Show
  96. Stat Lit Chart of the Day
  97. Edcamp keene 2011160t shirts thanks tim amp nicole they look great
  98. EdCamp Keene is Next Wednesday
  99. The Most Interesting Chart You’ll See On Peer Instruction This Year
  100. A Means A: Solving the problem of unbundled credentialing
  101. Rank-order Grading
  102. The truck that delivers our groceries
  103. Generational Learning Styles Are Bunk, Part 28
  104. Skills-banking
  105. San Diego State To Roll Out New Wave of Classroom Clickers
  106. Just Breathe
  107. The Wrath Against Khan: Why Some Educators Are Questioning Khan Academy
  108. And let’s face it, Google isn’t making us stupider, it’s simply making us realise that omniscience is actually slightly boring.
  109. CINAC: Correlation is not a Cause
  110. Penile Length Leads to Little Economic Growth
  111. On the Death of Borders
  112. Why Reform Through Institutional Abolition Won’t Work
  113. Zombie Pseudoscience: 8 Glasses a Day
  114. Probably use this video in my Statistical Literacy class. We are using Ben’s book, “Bad Science” and it is excellent.
  115. When Gamification Goes Wrong
  116. Sustainability and Innovation
  117. What Nick Carr (maybe) Misses About Memory and Integration
  118. Spaced retrieval: Absolute spacing enhances learning regardless of relative spacing.
  119. On the Miliband Loop
  120. Minutes after i read winer8217s 8220everyone should run their own webserver8221 piece i get thisi think sometimes we8217re crazy people driving old cars we repair ourselves telling people how easy and
  121. Assessing the sort of engagement that matters
  122. “The literacy rate among college graduates is lower today than it was 15 or 20 year [sic] ago.”
  123. Hippocampal brain-network coordination during volitional exploratory behavior enhances learning
  124. The Shock Doctrine Goes Platinum
  125. What if broadband DOESN’T eat everything?
  126. Great base rate fallacy explanation
  127. Teaching Workshops Fail to Spur Learner-Centered Teaching
  128. Don’t Show, Don’t Tell? Direct Instruction Can Thwart Independent Exploration
  129. The Great Threat to Higher Education is Medical Costs, Not Bubbles
  130. The “Tuition Bubble” and Degree Oversupply
  131. OER and Sandra Lee’s 70/30 Semi-Homemade Cooking
  132. Sharing and Collaborating with Google Docs: The influence of Psychological Ownership, Responsibility, and Student’s Attitudes on Outcome Quality
  133. U.S. says colleges with big tuition hikes must explain
  134. Presentation (Slideshare w/ audio) of my Practical Futurism keynote in Conway. Thanks to UNSH, the ATI, our wonderful CELT/AT team, Jon Mott, others.
  135. Plan to Restructure British Higher Ed
  136. Serious Discussion About Constructivist Pedagogy
  137. Increased Structure and Active Learning Reduce the Achievement Gap in Introductory Biology
  138. U.S. College Tuition Rises 4.6%, Beating Inflation
  139. Cockroach Performance Anxiety
  140. Large Stakes and Big Mistakes
  141. Summary of research on student evaluations
  142. Practical Futurism Presentation
  143. Share Bigger Things
  144. Health Care and Education
  145. In Praise of Factory Education
  146. Sharing, Reuse, and Frameworks
  147. Open Ambivalence

2010 21

  1. Just-In-Time Learning & Foundational Knowledge: A Ramble
  2. 2 + 1 + OER
  3. Taking OER Beyond the OER Community: Part I
  4. Privacy as a Luxury Good
  5. Addresses and Power
  6. Xenophily, and “Teens Don’t Tweet”, Part XXIX
  7. Curation and Integration
  8. Digging into UMW, Part II: The Art and Craft of EDUPUNK
  9. Digging into UMW, Part I: Event-ness
  10. The Dirty Secret to Instant Courses
  11. Why I am Concentrating on Open TEACHING Resources
  12. Stop capturing classes, and start capturing explanations.
  13. The Internet is a Human Rights Issue Except When It’s Not
  14. Artificial Scarcities
  15. Writing to Top Desired Skills in AAC&U Report
  16. Stealing Whuffie
  17. PLN and Media Literacy at Age 10: What’s There (and What’s Not)
  18. The Mystery of Self-Esteem Part II
  19. Self-esteem and Murder Mystery Resolutions
  20. OER and Pragmatism through the Overton Window
  21. Where are the Literature Miniseries?

2009 79

  1. Agatha Christie’s Pale Horse
  2. Inert vs. Liberating Literacy
  3. A Department-Based Twitter Aggregator in Google App Engine
  4. Learning Styles and Manuals
  5. Spammers
  6. Personal Information Stupidity
  7. Learning Styles vs. Environmental Fit
  8. Mormons, Homosexuals, and Atheists for President (Gallup)
  9. Thug Life, or the Napster of Books
  10. Nontheism
  11. GReader, Twitter Feeds, and Searching the PLN
  12. Parent-Teacher Conference Day
  13. Bookstore Chains as the Unsustainable Middle
  14. Or, Then Again (The Bookstore Numbers Are In)
  15. Bookstores as Social Hubs and Education
  16. Better Balance
  17. School Choice, Civics Knowledge, and Fraud
  18. Open Google Test
  19. Abstinence-only Web Education
  20. Polymath, Blogging, and HE
  21. Core Knowledge, Magellan, and the Great Man Theory of History
  22. Common Core, Bloom’s Taxonomy, and Thinking Historically
  23. NBC + Blackboard makes me want to hurl
  24. On the Hanging of Census Workers and Our Education Scapegoats
  25. Well, There Goes the “Harlem Miracle”
  26. Building an IQL Course From the Data Out
  27. More Intellectual Rigor from Bauerlein
  28. Former Spellings Commission Member: “The Web is very linear”
  29. Half of Low-Income Workers Under Age of 35 Living at Home
  30. AmeriCorps is Going To Take your Guns and Make You Gay-Marry
  31. SketchUp and Autism
  32. “Tic Tac Toe” Project Finalist in Microsoft Innovative Teacher Contest
  33. Education and the Good Enough Revolution
  34. Google Bundles, OPML, Courses and Cohorts
  35. The one video of Ted Kennedy’s you should watch
  36. R.I.P. Digital Native Theory
  37. DIYbio and Authentic Learning
  38. Cooperation, not Collaboration
  39. Blood of Tyrants
  40. Productivity As Quality As Well As Quantity
  41. Colleges and Bloat
  42. Techno-Utopians Please Take Note
  43. To promote the progress of science and useful arts
  44. Teens Don’t Work, Either
  45. Eulogy for Art Caulfield
  46. EPIC (fail) 2014
  47. Persona Creep
  48. New Media Impact for Future Professors
  49. Judge Bans Catcher in the Rye Sequel
  50. Have you got a 27B-stroke-6?
  51. Self-expression and Participation
  52. Juan Cole: The protests in Iran wouldn’t be allowed here either.
  53. Cutters and Preps (w/ apologies to Breaking Away)
  54. Cult of the Amateur
  55. Two short points on Iran and Twitter
  56. Earthquakes, Iranian Protests, Twitter, and the Media
  57. Someone needs a Quantitative Literacy course
  58. MPAA tells teachers to camcord screens instead of ripping clips
  59. Cello Schmello
  60. Gen Y and Web 2.0
  61. Why Network Thinking Matters
  62. Blogger Ethics Comedy From Mark Penn
  63. Google Phone RIP
  64. Hacking Education
  65. Are Video Games and Social Networks the New MMR?
  66. Gridlock and Partisanship
  67. Grade Inflation, and the Referee as Coach
  68. “Do something difficult”
  69. Pay-For-Performance and the Anti-Commons
  70. Not So Post-Partisan
  71. More on Transparency vs. Reuse
  72. Openness as reuse, and openness as transparency
  73. Should the U.S. Government be Negotiating with YouTube?
  74. OCW as a Shovel-Ready Infrastructure Project (Part III)
  75. Andrew Keen: The Internet will revive fascism!
  76. Another (better) attempt to talk about cohorts
  77. Rise of the Cohort, Educational and Otherwise
  78. Educational Policy, Economic Literacy, and Inside HigherEd
  79. 52/12: My New Year’s Resolution and the Death of the Endless Lunch

2008 55

  1. Pysch-Pop Notes: Turquoise and the Tales of Flossie Fillett
  2. Arne Duncan’s Magic Lawyer Powers Will Save U.S. Education
  3. No Lawyers for Secretary of Education. No-way, No-how.
  4. Is OCW a “shovel-ready infrastructure project”?
  5. Narrating Comics
  6. Fahrenheit 451
  7. Real Punks Ship
  8. Fact-checking
  9. UVU and the OCWC
  10. Jim Groom, Killer Catfish.
  11. Election Day
  12. OCW, Pandora Radio, and the Myth of Web 4.0
  13. Note to Chronicle: I can haz trendlines?
  14. A new blog name, and a recommitment
  15. Insta-Polls
  16. Under Construction
  17. My five year old: “The Internet is the Computer”
  18. Deadhead Sponsors Bill Creating Copyright Czar, Bush Signs
  19. A couple thoughts on the AsiaOnline translation of OpenCourseWare
  20. Jaw-droppingly stupid ruling on the Potter Lexicon
  21. Business Installs
  22. Diplopedia: an agile State Department?
  23. In which I’m “kind of” quoted in the New York Times
  24. Practical Internet Politics: Understanding Block and Blame, Catch and Release
  25. My new job with the OpenCourseWare Consortium
  26. Practical Art and Stallman, revisited
  27. Why Fan Fiction proves Richard Stallman wrong
  28. Sakai, Blackboard, and the Bridge to Nowhere
  29. Offlining site now online
  30. Blowhardization hits the Windy City
  31. Carr’s “Is Google Making Us Stupid”, Rosen’s “Myth of Multitasking”
  32. Offlining Experiment #1: Disengaging from the hivemind using Sony Reader
  33. Offlining
  34. Blogging the Media vs. Blogging Your Class
  35. Recording Industry Says AM-FM Broadcasting is ‘A Form of Piracy’
  36. Edu_protectionism
  37. Recursive Publics, Martin Luther, and Copyright
  38. Recursive Publics
  39. Edupunk and REST
  40. Ideology and EdTech (or, the Skunk at the Party)
  41. Keene State’s AT Vision as a model of productive engagement
  42. A short explanation from a terminal smasher (or, Blackboard as an access control company)
  43. Bowling Alone, the Local Internet, and XBox Live
  44. Edupunk
  45. Why Halo 3 is more educational than “intellectual” games
  46. Made the jump to Linux
  47. UMW Faculty Academy — on Ustream!
  48. Ning Death Syndrome (a.k.a the Dead Shark Problem)
  49. If a Columnist Calls a Tail a Leg…
  50. The Meaningless Homepage
  51. Forums vs. Blog Posts in Ning: A Plea for Unification.
  52. Salamander Crossing
  53. Citizen Keene
  54. Defining the Online Communications Office
  55. Promoted

2007 68

  1. SPACEWAR Is Still My Metaphor
  2. Flexible, User-Constructed (non-metaphorical) Spaces
  3. Social Reboot
  4. Google rank
  5. How a lack of piracy killed the Sony Reader
  6. NaNoWriMo
  7. Wiki:Authoring :: Perl:Programming
  8. Threatened Much?
  9. Local Citizen Microreporting
  10. Help me out with my proposal
  11. The proposal I’d like to write
  12. Brightcove Test
  13. With the exception of the multitasking bit
  14. Networked Learning and Distributed Reporting
  15. Front Page HuffPo
  16. Curatorial Teaching
  17. Entrepreneurship meets Service meets Academic Engagement…
  18. Support Music over Lawyers. Buy Radiohead.
  19. Credentials
  20. On Hockney, mathematicians, and the cross-cultural fallacy
  21. The hypocisy of the recent ECAR study
  22. Dr. Sander Lee on James Madison and Democracy
  23. The answer to the legal objections
  24. Fantasy Congress and the usefulness of wrong models
  25. Our responsibility
  26. This is your Italian course. This is your Italian course on WordPress.
  27. A meager start
  28. The Parable of the Thingamajig
  29. Announcing the Learning 2.0 Pecha Kucha Contest
  30. The SmallWonder arrives
  31. The college as student/project matchmaker
  32. Giving your students a toolbelt
  33. At eportfolio workshop
  34. There is no “tech”. Get over it.
  35. Progress on loosely coupled assessment
  36. First 35 claims of Blackboard’s patent ruled invalid
  37. Panels
  38. Prometheus Meets the Enterprise Management System
  39. Leigh Blackall: Teaching is Dead, Long Live Learning
  40. Loosely coupled assessment
  41. EPortaro demonstration today (any help?)
  42. Where will the wave come from?
  43. Electronic Textbooks and CommentPress
  44. Goal-based scenario/simulation vs. learning 2.0
  45. You’re already out there
  46. In Which I Meet Our (Other) Allies
  47. It’s not just Experts vs. Amateurs. It’s Experts vs. Experts in Something Else.
  48. Send Bloggers
  49. Marc Andreessen Supports the Inverted LMS (sort of)
  50. Twittergram Rock: Last Time You Were Here
  51. Inverted LMS Revisited: The various uses of containers
  52. ISA, HASA, and the Inverted LMS
  53. Offline thinking
  54. The Humanity of Loose Systems
  55. John Willinsky and the Ten Years War
  56. Universal Grammar, meet the Black Swan
  57. Twittergram #2: Can we plug Jott into this?
  58. Twittergram
  59. Messaging, Phatic Overhead, and the Right to Connect
  60. Twitter as Identity System?
  61. WordPress MU and eportfolio reporting requirements
  62. Enterprise Learning Systems Considered Harmful to Learning
  63. Michael Gorman wins Gold Medal for Irony
  64. My first e-learning experience (1981)
  65. Seth Godin: Blow up your Home Page
  66. Systemantics Thought for the Day: Loose Systems Less Hostile to Human Life
  67. ePortfolios, Durability, and the Black Binder Test
  68. Two Questions