Susan and I were really pleased to host a fine evening of music last evening here in Riverdale. Our neighbour Cam Neufeld is touring this summer with Jez Hellard & The Djukella […]
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Order of Athabasca University
Yesterday at Convocation in Athabasca, I was deeply honoured by my former colleagues at Athabasca by being installed into the Order of Athabasca University. Most other members have been individuals […]
Research–Practice Partnerships in Educat
My Google Scholar alert notified me that one of my articles was cited in an as yet not publisher preprint in Educational Researcher. I don’t usually bother with articles hidden […]
Success with FlyKly Wheel and Kickstarte...
Despite what may be an idealistic techno-solution, I was attracted the FlyKly video when I first saw it advertised two years. The video shows a cool European 20+ cruising along […]
What’s So New about the New Atheists?
Last week I gave the Sunday sermon at Westwood Unitarian Congregation here in Edmonton. While trying to organize my book shelves, I noticed that I had nine different books on Atheism […]
My New Hammer Dulcimer – FINISHED
After nearly exactly 3 months on and off work my new 15/14 hammer dulcimer is finished. I’ve have been playing my Dusty Strings 13/12 dulcimer (the numbers stand for the […]
End of Jobs in Online Education?
I started out my teaching career as a “shop teacher” – teaching middle school students how to work and built with a number of technologies. Thus, it was a bit […]
The Enigma of Interaction
I’ve been fascinated by the role of interaction all of my career as both a student, a researcher and a teacher. Michael Moore’s famous article details the role of the ‘big […]
A Fourth Presence for the Community of I...
The Community of Inquiry has emerged as the most widely referenced (the seminal 1999 article approaches 3,000 citations) and arguably the most widely used model for constructivist based e-learning design […]
Little Free Librarian Inspects Little Fr...
I had some fun with the little clay model that I posed for in the market in Tianjin, China. The artist used multi-coloured modelling clay with amazing skill to create […]