Last November was Digital Citizenship month for the Open Online Experience (OOE13) and I was led mentor for the month. I assembled a collection of resources and activities for the OOE13 website. We held joint Tweet Chats with Post Etmooc about Digital Citizenship and about Digital Leadership; it was great to see the two communities […]

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I have been thinking about ways to create a structure that acts more as support, scaffolding and launching pad than a prison. How can we create a learning environment that can help students learn about learning, their learning, while still meeting the administrivia requirements of the system?Last week in week in Rhizo14 we were exploring […]

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The moon was beautiful the other night.

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We had a great time at the Deep Freeze Festival on Alberta Avenue last weekend. It was really warm, much warmer than last year.

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On Tuesday January 14th I hosted an #etmchat Twitter Chat for the Post Etmooc community to celebrate the anniversary of ETMOOC. My friend Susan Spellman Cann co-hosted and Alec Couros, instigator and lead learner in ETMOOC, was our guest. The chat was a huge success. There were almost 400 tweets sent in 75 minutes. Too […]

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I am participating in Dave Courmier‘s Rhizomatic Learning cMOOC at Peer 2 Peer University which started this week. I really enjoyed Dave’s session on Rhizomatic Learning in ETMOOC and I am excited to participate in this unstrucutred learning experience with a group of friends that I have (virtually) met in other MOOCs, games and learning […]

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Thank you Alec Couros for being my teacher and role model for the past 4 years. I first met you as a mentor through the Powerful Learning Practice. It was exciting to find a Canadian who was actively modeling what being a Connected Educator could look like. You and Will Richardson were my role models […]

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Last year I learned, collaborated and played with people from around the world because last January I joined ETMOOC, an Educational Technology and Media Massive Open Online Course. I had participated in online courses before, but I had never participated in something of this scale without knowing at least other participant; and by the time […]

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This afternoon instead of being bummed about the latest cold snap we explored how soap bubbles behaved at -26 degrees Celsius. It was fascinating watching them break apart and dance in the wind. The post Playing with Soap Bubbles at -26 appeared...

As the calendar turns from 2013 to 2014 I find myself looking back over all that has happened in the last twelve months. The year has been filled with great experiences. Because I am not teaching in the classroom I don’t have to plan lessons and correct so I have much more time in the […]

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On Friday night Tom and I took four girls to the see the Myth Busters live in Edmonton on their Behind the Myths Tour. It was a fantastic show, aimed at children and families. It was great to see so many children in the audience, especially girls. It was a very full house, and everyone […]

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One of the the things that I love about Twitter is how it allows me to have real time conversations: I talk about mundaine things, collaborate, share resources, participate in Twitter Chats and play games of Twitter vs. Zombies. Sometimes the conversations take place over a longer period of time, like the riff below that […]

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On Monday morning I was one of the guests on Ian O’Byrne‘s netcast Digitally Literate. Digitally Literate takes place the last monday of every month at 10 PM MST. This was his second episode and the topic was Open is an Attitude. There were six of us plus Ian, from various locations in Canada and […]

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On November 20th I hosted a Twitter Chat about Digital Leadership for Digital Citizenship month in The Open Online Experience. This week we have been exploring if digital citizenship skills and abilities can lead to digital leadership. We opened the month by discussing digital citizenship, learned how Kathy Cassidy’s students are creating a positive digital […]

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Technically I am a MOOC failure. One more data point for those who are tallying the high drop out rate for MOOCs in news stories across all media these days. A disappointment to Jeff Merrell and Kimberly Scott who facilitated Exploring Personal Learning Networks (#xplrPLN.) I was very interested in the topic but right from […]

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Even though Connected Educator Month has come to a close, my journey as a connected educator continues. Today at lunchtime I taught a Lunch n Learn session called The Power of Twitter for Educators for The Centre for Global Education. It was a different experience to teach something like Twitter online in a Blackboard session, […]

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I discovered today! It was buried under a pile of paperwork and dirty laundry. Good thing too since we were all worried that we would have to spend the rest of our lives living in the past because those were the only days we could find. Now if we could only find the future, we […]

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I think that it is a video week. I have continued to play with audio and the Daily Creates. 3 Ts Radio Our radio group had so much fun creating our radio show that we decided to create a Halloween Special for DS106 Radio. We are all very busy and there was a very short […]

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I did participate in some DS106 related activity last week, but I didn’t participate in many prescribed #ds106 activities. Good thing it is a cMooc. I didn’t even read the weekly announcement, and I did not do any of the activities related to Stories In/Of The Web. Here is what I did do. 3 Ts […]

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What is Digital Citizenship? In the past ten years we have gone from police officers in classrooms teaching internet safety to media literacy to digital citizenship, and maybe even just citizenship. What is your definition of digital citizenship? Digital Citizenship can be a hard thing to define, and your definition can change over time. Blog […]

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The Mayor of Jesseson has declared a new month, the month of Rhonuary which will be inserted to the Gregorian calendar after October 31st, 2013. The month of Rhonuary will contain 6 days. On the first day of Rhonuary starting Ronuary 1, 2014 and continuing forever more every one will have enough to eat. On […]

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It’s October 31. Halloween. Samhain. The airing of the 3Ts DS106 Radio Halloween Special (3 and 8pm PST.) And it’s the last day of Connected Educator month. Even though the month-long celebration of learning and sharing is drawing to an end, the opportunities to learn, share, teach, play, experiment, and collaborate will continue for me. […]

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The sky is never the same on Mars now that we have started terraforming. The light changes throughout the day, and seems to interact with the landscape much more now that the land reconfiguration process is over. Standing in the lab at sunset, watching the thin Martian light refract off all of the nutrient-dense water […]

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If I had realized that it wasn’t actually my lucky day I would have saved my third wish to make sure that things worked out with the first two. But I didn’t realize that I wasn’t having the best day of my life so when I wished for an end to world hunger I thought […]

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Jasmine was a happy intelligent girl with lots of friends. She met her soulmate in University and shortly after she graduated gave birth to RGB triplets – Ray, George and Brianna. She raised them with the same colour values she had, but she tried to expose them to new models as well. Although she was […]

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Last week was week 8 in Headless #DS106, the second of two an audio two-fer: Audio and the Big Radio show. The rest of my life has been crowding and I haven’t been able to participate in #ds106 as much as I would have liked. I enjoy working with audio, but I know it can […]

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Today is Blog Action Day. The theme this year is Human Rights. Founded in 2007, Blog Action Day brings together bloggers from different countries, interests and languages to blog about one important global topic on the same day. Past topics have included Water, Climate Change, Poverty, Food and the Power of We, with over 25,000 […]

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I didn’t have much time for DS106 in week 7, but I did do three DailyCreates. tdc637: This is the 6th day of the 10th month. At 1:06pm create a Happy 106 day message. Send it to someone. On October 6th I made a short video. As always it took much longer than I expected. […]

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