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Category Archives: digital identity
Tilde as Approximation
This symbol (in English) sometimes means “approximately”, such as: “~30 minutes ago” meaning “approximately 30 minutes ago”. It can mean “similar to”, including “of the same order of magnitude as”, such as: “x ~ y” meaning that x and y are of the same order of magnitude. Another approximation symbol is ?, meaning “approximately … Continue reading
Andreá Livi Smith Teaches, Learns, and Lives By Design
DTLT Today: Episode 109 – Andreá Livi Smith from Jim Groom on Vimeo. It’s finals week and everyone is slammed for time right now on campus, but Historic Preservation professor Andreá Livi Smith was still generous enough to sit with … Continue reading
It Takes a Liberal Arts Village to Raise a Digital Campus
UMW alum-cum-journalist Lindley Estes wrote an article today in the local Fredericksburg paper, The Free-Lance Star, about the brave new digital world emerging at UMW (forgive them the ads and video commercials, online publishing has confounded more than a few newspapers). It’s pretty cool … Continue reading
The Ice Man Killeth or, Dr Oblivion….is that you?
The great George Meadows sent the image below of a book about a cold-blooded killer who lived a double life as a suburban New Jersey family man. Crazy story, from what I could glean, having killed over 100 people during … Continue reading
Domain of One’s Own discussion on Chronicle’s Tech Therapy
Earlier this week Jeff Young and Warren Arbogast (a UMW alumni!), of The Chronicle‘s Tech Therapy podcast, invited me on their program to work through some of the ideas at the heart of University of Mary Washington’s Domain of One’s Own … Continue reading
Open Architecture, a Vision Beyond the Massive Hype
When Instructure hired Jared Stein a year ago my faith in them multiplied exponentially. Jared is as smart a person as I’ve met working in this space, and he not only understands the field of edtech intimately, but he can … Continue reading
Eduglu Revisited: The Syndication Bus 2012
It’s been more than a year since I’ve really thought, no less written about, the syndication bus as it relates to ds106. For any of you who might be new to the idea of the syndication bus, it’s an approach … Continue reading
Proud Papa, indeed
Katie Jones was part of the illustrious first class of ds106. A mighty internaut was she, and it has come to my attention on twitter that her ds106 kung-fu has not gone dormant. I couldn’t help but let her know … Continue reading
ds106 is back and it’s a journey to the center of the internet!!!
Michael Branson Smith has an awesome vision for what ds106 is going to be this semester. What’s more all of DTLT is playing along with his classes up at CUNY’s York College and you can too. If you are interested … Continue reading
Independent Domains – Thresholds to Teaching and Learning on the Open Web
A couple of weeks ago I had the distinct pleasure of delivering the closing plenary session at the Elon University’s 8th Annual Teaching and Learning Conference. Katie King, Ben McFadyen, and Claudia Sparks were awesome, and special thanks to Peter … Continue reading