Category Archives: presentations

Reclaiming Open with WordPress

Posted on March 26, 2018 by Reverend

https://twitter.com/hrheingold/status/978094073608159232 I woke up to a few tweets about Reclaim Hosting and the #deletefacebook movement. It’s been hard for me to get excited about Facebook either way. I see it as one of the more depressing malls of the web, … Continue reading →

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LMS Dogma

Posted on February 15, 2018 by Reverend

I mentioned in my last post that I recently was invited to talk to a group of students in Eddie Maloney’s Technology Innovation by Design course. This group are the pioneers of Georgetown’s new Masters program in Learning and Design. I … Continue reading →

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PressED: a Twitter Conference about WordPress

Posted on January 26, 2018 by Reverend

I dig what Natalie Lafferty and Pat Lockley dreamed up with PressEd, a conference about WordPress run through Twitter. It provides a fresh take on the online conference, and with that somewhat of a challenge to use the medium in … Continue reading →

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More opinionated edtech responses then you can shake a blog at

Posted on January 6, 2018 by Reverend

While I was in Barcelona this past October to co-present with Brian Lamb at the Open University of Catalonia’s (UOC) “Pushing the Boundaries of Higher Ed” symposium (presentation video above), they decided to subject themselves to my opinionated responses to a … Continue reading →

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Pushing It Real Good in Barcelona

Posted on October 20, 2017 by Reverend

you pushed it real good! #PushingHE https://t.co/SIcYlsCi9H — Grant Potter (@grantpotter) October 3, 2017 Over two weeks ago I co-presented at the Open University of Catalonia’s “Pushing the Boundaries of Higher Ed”  symposium with Brian Lamb. Our session was centered on … Continue reading →

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OpenMed

Posted on October 17, 2017 by Reverend

A little over two weeks ago I ventured to nearby Torino, Italy for the final two days of a week-long training event that is part of the OpenMed initiative. What’s OpenMed, well I am glad you asked: Five partners from … Continue reading →

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A Mediterranean Diet for Open EdTech

Posted on September 25, 2017 by Reverend

From the Wikipedia article on the Mediterranean Diet: In 2013, UNESCO added the Mediterranean diet to the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity of Italy (promoter), France, Morocco, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Cyprus, and Croatia. It was chosen … Continue reading →

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Let’s Get Small: SPLOTTING the Future

Posted on July 30, 2017 by Reverend

I believe we can #SPLOT https://t.co/aOR4o0VJR9 — Jim Groom (@jimgroom) July 30, 2017 I am winding up my time in Australia today and I have a ton of things to write about between the awesome people I’ve met, places I’ve … Continue reading →

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Last Futures: From Web 2.0 Utopia to Platform Capitalism

Posted on July 23, 2017 by Reverend

I am presenting at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia in about two hours, and I have been working on my talk pretty diligently over the last 24 hours. It will work in a bunch of my favorite topics such as … Continue reading →

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An Integrated Domain at THETA17

Posted on July 13, 2017 by Reverend

I already wrote my post-mortem on the THETA17 conference in New Zealand this May, so I do not have all that much more to add. But given they recently shared the images and videos from the conference, I grabbed a … Continue reading →

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