Originally posted on doug --- off the record:
Terry Greene is a “Program Manager for @eCampusOntario working at the traffic circle of learning, tech, and open education.”  Terry’s online personality wavers between very serious and not so serious but he’s always interesting. Over the Christmas Break, Terry was kind enough to take some time to…

Originally posted on The Open Faculty Patchbook:
By Kari-Draker Fortis, Fleming College Introduction                                                                                What is the best way to assess student laboratories in an introductory science course? If you posed this question to a lab instructor, chances are they will have a lot to say and likely more questions than answers. Do you have students…

Not that I think I’m 2 legit, 2 legit to quit or anything, but I got myself my own domain. Check it out here: http://learningnuggets.ca/

swear words already? I know I'm at the right f'in conference #OpenEd16 — (((TG))) (@greeneterry) November 2, 2016 I got home from OpenEd16 about 30 hours ago and I’m already behind the times. Why? Well, here’s a huge benefit of being involved in Open Educational Practices: people blog, in the open, about their insights, what … Continue reading An Opening Move →

A greedy armorer avenges a straightforward toxicologist in a plastic university That’s the plot for Notting Hill An evil physiologist eats breakfast with an amicable microbiologist in a jangling record store That’s the plot for High Fidelity An irresponsible queen goes on a quest with a sensible bacteriologist in a mortifying boutique That’s the plot … Continue reading Sorry, but I think I just keep getting real plots →

Daily Create #1748  Who is your dream team? This dream team is real and is taking Canadians to task for their historic treatment of indigenous people through the residential school programs that worked to remove a culture. Maybe it’s more of a perfect storm than a dream team, but it certainly is something to make you … Continue reading A Dream Team, or Maybe A Perfect Storm →

Daily Create #1747 is to answer the question, why do I write? The Daily Create website claims that today is the National Day of Writing, however does not identify which nation, so I’ll assume that it is Honduras. So, to celebrate Honduras’ National Day of Writing, I will try to describe why I write. Here are … Continue reading Write? But Why? →

flickr photo shared by secretagentmoof under a Creative Commons ( BY ) license This is a public service announcement. With Guitar. A new thing is called Clash.me that takes your text and turns it into pop culture audio snippets. An old thing is called The Clash which is an awesome punk band. This is the … Continue reading The Clash of The Clash & Clash →

Daily Create 1718 The Digital Storytelling Syllabus is full of lies. I will highlight them below. Lie 1: Course Name- Digital Storytelling: The Open Course-Digital Storytelling? No digits have told me any stories yet! Lie 2: Instructor: NOBODY. There is no one in charge of this class, no leaders. No leaders??? We’re all in the community together, so we’re all … Continue reading 9 Lies the DS106 Open Syllabus Tells →

Daily Create 1717: Get a random blog post title and then write it In light of number 2, in which we find out a myth is not a myth, for clarity’s sake the list below is a list of things that are true as far as I believe. 1. Having a numbered list in your … Continue reading 18 Myths Uncovered About Learning →

Daily Create 1711 Why, yes of course it does! Click play to hear it and watch the wood nymph do her thing.        

Daily Create #1710 The ocean at the end of our backyard was actually the tallest mountain in the world. At least it was the tallest mountain in the world back in the 80s. At least in the mind of a 4 year old, large-headed, silly child named me. Okay it was only the tallest mountain … Continue reading The Ocean at The End Of Our Backyard →

Daily Create #1704 Imagine a new Top Level Domain that would give you an ideal domain. In preparation for a future Internet that includes other planets and alien races, I figure we need a domain for us Earthlings. Introducing .erf

The latest in my series of a) DS106 daily creates and b) expressions of disdain for Caillou

Alright, well, here’s the story. Brad, a friend of mine, was visiting his folks in Montreal. Charged him an arm and a leg for the flights. Damn huge country this is. Eleven hundred bucks to get across it! Fine whatever, Brad thought. Get this visit over with. Haven’t seen them in a while. It’ll get … Continue reading Alright well here’s the story →

ds106 Daily Create #1685 I can’t show you a picture of this hole, as you have to do it blindfolded. Words will have to suffice. Picture this… Wait I forgot, you’ll be blindfolded, so don’t picture this… feel this: Blindfold on, you will begin by hitting a very small golf club with a very big golf ball. … Continue reading Strange Mini-Golf, Hole 4 Par 87 →

Daily Create 1679 Here is how this video came to be. You will probably note that my process is fraught with inefficiencies and could be done in approximately a lot less steps. Copy the youtube link for the original Kin Lane Drone Recovery video Paste it into keepvid.com and download the mp4 Make that there mp4 … Continue reading Drone, Please Come Home →

It’s, uh…. the medium. The medium is the message. Thanks for clicking!

Daily Create 1654 is to create a story from three public domain images found on Pravatar. The theme of my story is one I don’t think has ever been done in any story ever before ever: Good vs. Bad. Let’s see how this plays out! The ending is deliberately vague because I wanted you to be left … Continue reading Every 3 Pictures Tell a Story →

Daily Create 1647 Commodore 64ing yourself feels exactly like what I think it might feel exactly like to go into the grid. I’m going to take Alice with me.  So, the first and possibly only tool you need to use is the c64 yourself page provided in the Daily Create directions for the day. But when you … Continue reading We’re Going Into The Grid →

This post was originally published here, but I am cross-posting it here for maximum blowhardiness. I am currently reading, as a little bit of professional learning, The Monsters of Educational Technology, by Audrey Watters. I’m convinced you couldn’t find a better person to have a critical eye on your field than her. Her analysis of the history, present … Continue reading Excitement/Abandonment →

If you have a look at https://www.daysoftheyear.com, you’ll see that every day has 3 or 4 themes to it which is absolutely ridiculous, so I am reclaiming today as just a day. Today is henceforth Today Day. Locally, provincially, nationally, internationally, globally, universally. Do your own thing. Enjoy doing what you do. Wherever you go, your are … Continue reading Today is Today Day →

Daily Create #1639 Show Your Defining Moment My defining moment happened on an unusually nice and sunny March 5th, 2006. A beautiful, wonderful woman showed up for an Internet-enabled date in an orange toque. We’ve been sharing our lives ever since and I love it.

Daily Create 1635: Name this movie answer is here    

Daily Create 1634: ‘Print’ out a Youtube Video using Bookmarklet. Pretty cool and very simple tool to get a story board out of a video: check it out here I chose the Log Driver’s Waltz as my video. Why? Well, as a Canadian of a certain age, before the Internet and MuchMusic Video Dance Parties, this … Continue reading If you ask any girl, from the Parish around →

Morph into Jim Groom Daily Create 1627 I am Greene I am  Groot I am Groom? Now that I am Jim Groom, I can tell you definitively; THERE WERE NEVER ANY SOCKS. Original Jim Groom photo shared by bionicteaching under a Creative Commons ( BY-SA ) license

Daily Create 1625 Don’t let your domain wither and fall into the hands of vultures! I was watching a lot of MuchMusic back in 1992. One of the consequences of that is this song is in my long term memory: Not necessarily the worst thing ever, but today it is because it won’t go away. If … Continue reading Not this time. Not any time. →

My 3 year old daughter has me well versed in Scooby-lore. I know all about the goings on in Crystal Cove. I was always skeptical of one thing though… The Mystery Machine. And we’ve finally unmasked the dastardly villain. All along it was…   villain image borrowed from: http://cogdogblog.com/ Mystery Machine Image from boing boing

I did this work in honour of Daily Create #tdc1598 ‘Obviously Photoshopped’, but this is actually Daily Create 1618, Paperback Paradise: which is to take an old paperback and springboard off of it in a new direction. …And that direction is the great and wonderful inevitable future of education. We won’t need to decide and … Continue reading Your Head’s Got a Learning Machine →

Tired of just sitting there whizzpopping all day long? Don’t want to be bopmuggered, crodsquinkled and gunzlewiped in the boring hornswoggles of the Internet, bapsqaggling all the live long day? Well, now you can portedo yourself to cromulence with exundly what you need to break free from the filthsome swigpill! And that whoopsy splunkers is ds106! An open … Continue reading #ds106: Do Yourself a Crodscollop →