Sigh. Another day, another long lonely day. Nobody ever notices the bookshelf. It’s not like when I was new and every person through the door mentioned me, praised me, talked about me. No one ever notices the bookshelf. Doing my job, holding their things: nicknacks, tea pots, artwork, and books, all the endless books. Who […]

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I had a lot of great opportunities for connected learning this week. I was a teacher and a learner, connecting face to face and online with people who were sometimes a few cubicles away and sometimes halfway around the world. Yammer At work I built a private Yammer community for my Sector. The walled garden […]

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Connected Educator Month has me reflecting on the ways that I connect, learn, share and create with other educators. I am fortunate to belong to a couple of vibrant communities of practice which form the backbone of my PLN (Professional Learning Network.) I value their experience, insight and their international perspective. Most of the time […]

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It happened like this Here is the story they wrote . [View the story "My Typewriter is on the Spark website" on Storify] Here is my beautiful typewriter.

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What is with the clouds and the rain all of a sudden. Where is the sun? Don’t get me wrong, I do appreciate that it hasn’t frosted or snowed yet. But there are no shadows on the streets. I picked shadows for his month’s photo theme because I have seen so many fantastic shadows lately. […]

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For the first day of Design Week in #DS106 I decided to try my first DS106 Assignment. I chose Design Assignment #1048, which was to ” Make an invitation for any event, whether it occur or not.” I created an invitation to a meeting that I was trapped in last week. We were invited to […]

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It’s Design Week in DS106. I am one of the volunteers/cheerleaders this week. I love exploring the impact that design has on my life. I teach media, communication, and other nerdy things that depend on an understanding of design and layout and space. I love exploring and photographing architecture. And looking for patterns in man-made […]

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Week 4 Headless DS106 I have been thinking a lot about narrative and storytelling this week, week 4 in Headless DS106, especially collective narratives and how they evolve. Off-Task I’ve jotted down some notes about the definition of storytelling, but I haven’t yet posted about it. After reading the assignments, once, early in the week […]

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Was there a week three? There must have been because I found this draft post. In week 3 I… Did some Daily Creates On September 9th I wrote a short story about someone writing a story about someone writing a story for #tdc610. On September 10th I created an interesting high contrast black and white […]

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Alec Couros, ‏@courosa, in a multi-tweet conversation w/ @laurelbeaton @bonstewart @verenanz @rljessen @gsiemens about parent/child Moocs, & their potential 2 circumvent a lot of the implicit hierarchies around learning/schooling …model an actual diff space “I rather enjoy a strong cacophony of yelly baby bedlam within my zone of proximal development.” [View the story "on #LearningStyles […]

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Last week I was fortunate to spend two days at e-Town, “an intensive two-day Edmonton festival of ideas for entrepreneurial-minded people who get excited by innovation, change and disrupting common thought.” from the e-town website I first read about it in August. It sounded really interesting and I wanted to take part. Instead of attending […]

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I don’t have any scientific evidence, or even much up-close observation since the risk of infection is high, but I am not sure I believe this whole brainless #zombie thing. The current very considered thinking amongst all 11 and 13 year olds surveyed is the although #zombies might still have some brains left, these brains […]

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The tide is turning. #zombies seem to be hunting specific targets now. Maybe it is the residual vibe of human friendship. Maybe that explains why Karen Young continues to hunt me, post after post. That doesn’t explain why Barbie Zombie persues me. She thinks I have time to reply to her tiny ramblings. Too busy […]

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I am exhausted but I am still running. #dodging those #zombies. I don’t see any humans left in Edmonton, just infrastructure and #zombies. I am running out of gas.

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I don’t think this bridge is very safe, too much construction. Traffic moves slow. I’ll have to stay hidden. Crouched down in the passenger side. It is not comfortable, but at least it’s not dark yet. Stay off the net. #zombies attack every post. Beware. Be safe. #safezone

Am I the last #human? It feels like it. Zombies are everywhere. #humans getting their brains eaten every time I look at the feed. I try and look away, but I am drawn to the carnage. Alone in this #safehouse.

It am getting worried. Every time I look #humans are getting bitten. Every time I look into the digital landscape I see more #zombies. They pop up like ground squirrels in Saskatchewan. #recruitment efforts are not working. #human numbers are down. The batteries to my Mac are running low. I am out of chocolate. I […]

I am writing this from the #safezone. I’m not sure how long I can hold out. I know they are tracking my digital trail so I’m going to keep this brief. I’m posting this as a warning. And as a tribute to the great minds lost to the zombie hoards yesterday, Friday the Thirteenth of […]

The Student Blogging Challenge has started, yea! I have signed up to be a mentor for the second time this year. I signed up to be a mentor because I think it is important to provide an authentic audience for student work and because it helps me get better at commenting on blogs. It can […]

I loved the DailyCreate today in #DS106. As soon as I read it I started planning what I would write. I had all kinds of ideas of how I could mesh two stories together. While I was at work the stories took place in adjoining office towers. When I was on the bus on the […]

It’s the end of week 2 in Headless #ds106, time to take stock of how my learning and experiences have connected with DS106. This week I talked about DS106 a lot in face to face and online communities, I did three Daily Creates, and I thought about all of the Daily Creates and planned how […]

The Open Online Experience, #OOE13, started this week. Hello everyone in#OOE13! Although the official launch was this week and the first synchronous session was on Wednesday, it’s not too late to join the 168 participants from 23 countries who have already signed up. If you’d like to learn more about the Open Online Experience see […]

Week one of DS106, the Digital Storytelling cMooc that I am participating in, is over. The topic was boot camp. It was an opportunity for participants to try out some of the tools that will be used in DS106, ensure that their blog is registered in the course blog hub, connect with others from the […]

The new school year starts tomorrow. My daughters are starting a new school again. This will be their second school in two years. The school changes haven’t been a reaction to the school they were attending. Last year, when we moved to Edmonton, they had to change schools. One of the things I was excited […]

I’ve signed up for the latest incarnation of #DS106 – Headless DS106, it starts tomorrow, the same day that I start back to work after summer break. I am really looking forward to it. What is DS106? DS106 is a course about Digital Storytelling, with University of Mary Washington students who are taking the course […]

Open Online Experience,a connectivist educational technology and media learning experience starts in a week and a half. It will be an open learning experience about the integration of edtech in the classroom, sharing your learning and connecting with others who are on the same journey throughout the entire school year. A key part of the […]

On Saturday the girls and I took a historical streetcar across the High Level Bridge to Old Strathcona, and checked out the Fringe Festival. It was a great adventure. We had a bonus adventure before we got to the streetcar. The girls didn’t manage a quick exit from the house and we missed the first […]

The girls and I visited Fort Edmonton yesterday. They have been there more often than I have so I let them guide me around. We had a great time. We arrived just in time to catch the steam train to the 1846 Fort. We wandered through buildings, looking into furnished rooms and imaging what life […]

Thanks for lifelong love of chocolate. (Today’s Daily Create as a 6 Word letter.)

I have just arrived in Ontario after a four province road trip with my mom and the girls. We joined my mom for the return portion of a much longer trip; she drove from Orillia to Victoria and back (with a stop in Banff for my nephew’s graduation – just in time to check out […]