Tag Archives: edtech

Some Welcome Love for the LAMP Stack

Posted on September 5, 2021 by Reverend

I really enjoyed Ernie Smith’s article “I Love Lamp” over on his Tedium.co blog, big thanks to David LaCroix for the link. He provides a succinct and fascinating history into the rise of the killer stack that has reigned for … Continue reading →

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A Radio of One’s Own: an Interview with Taylor Jadin on #ds106radio

Posted on May 12, 2020 by Reverend

In less than 10 minutes I will be joined by @TaylorJadin on #ds106radio to talk about a "Radio of One's Own" Lock it in! https://t.co/vXRNHb42Qc — Jim Groom (@jimgroom) May 8, 2020 This past Friday I had the distinct pleasure … Continue reading →

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The Limits and Possibilities of the House Metaphor for Domains

Posted on April 10, 2020 by Reverend

My last post was a recap of the “At the Scale of Care” presentation Lauren Heywood and I gave at the mighty OER20. A few days ago Lauren posted her own take on the presentation, and I really appreciated how … Continue reading →

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After this there will be no more good clean online fun

Posted on April 5, 2020 by Reverend

I’m not sure how it happened, but I found myself poking some fun at Matt Crosslin and Brian Lamb on Twitter based on this exchange: "Online learning should be fast, fun, crazy, unplanned, and inspirational." I worry about statements like … Continue reading →

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IST 402: Emerging Technologies

Posted on September 30, 2019 by Reverend

I had this as part of my previous post about HAX, but it was getting unruly, so I am exercising my rarely used editorial authority to make this its own post. In addition to all the HAX work, Bryan Ollendyke … Continue reading →

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Blogging at Scale with Google Sheets

Posted on September 11, 2018 by Reverend

When you go directly from several weeks of work travel into the beginning of the semester rush at Reclaim Hosting, the bava.blog necessarily gets neglected. But that changes now! Back on August 22nd Tim and I sat down with John Stewart … 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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How CUNY Grad Center Fellowships Changed the Course of Edtech History

Posted on March 10, 2016 by Reverend

This is cross-posted on the CUNY Academic Commons News blog as part of the Citation Needed series I am writing there. Now for a little history you never wanted. I had many fellowships while I was a Ph.D. student at … Continue reading →

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Six Months an Apprentice

Posted on February 25, 2016 by Reverend

Since late July, early August I have been focusing a lot more of my time on wrapping my head around the Reclaim Hosting server infrastructure, as well as providing support to folks using it. It’s been a welcome deviation from the career trajectory … Continue reading →

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Single Most Important Development in Edtech in Last 2 Years…

Posted on August 16, 2015 by Reverend

….has nothing to do with “innovation.” Scott Leslie was prompting a bit of discussion on Twitter yesterday: edtechies, prove me wrong – what is your single most exciting/important development in the field in last 2 years? FedWiki, ReclaimHosting… — Scott … Continue reading →

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