Creepy And Beautiful

miracle of life

miracle of life

The animation on this video is truly amazing, made me think of my “What Are the Odds” post.  #perspective

IT Holiday Party Playlist

link to Spotify playlist for IT Holiday Party

Netflix party of 1

Decided to splurge and buy Galaxy Quest (Amazon) for $2- I had a $3 credit and the sale price was $5.  Good deal either way!  It’s a fun movie!  

Zoom Projects

I’m working on a couple of projects.  One of them is to organize some zoom lunches, dinners, netflixparties, art nights, and other fun social activities on zoom.  I need to fix the survey on the new page of my website, stay tuned.

Zoom Art Night:  4-5 people, 60 minutes, theme #1 Collage Night Collect papers you like, or magazines More directions to follow

Some thoughts

If you write it down you are more likely to do it

Community, Care, and Communication

New workshops coming in April

Working on an AI bot to support scalable, effective online learning

Teachers touch tomorrow today

Wikipedia updates soon

#WOL 

The night before, I reflect on what are my top three goals the next day, and before starting to work, take 10 minutes to reflect on what I need to do and when I need to do it by.  Work in order of priorities.  

Fake it until you make it

These are difficult times, but in time of crisis is also a time of great opportunity.  The field of education, and of education technology, has a lot of change in a short amount of time through the ages.  

link to full size map by Vicky Earl

link to full size image from tweet by @justintarte

And here is a timeline I created based off of an article on EDUCAUSE that highlights one new technology or trend.

link to full size image from Flickr 

I have a set of slides I use at the beginning of most of my presentations.  It starts with a timeline that gives an overview of the information ages, and puts into context, just how new the age of the Internet is.  This is the Wild, Wild West.  As an instructional technologist I help guide faculty through their own explorations of leveraging tech.  

link to larger image from Flickr

Note, I plan to use this and other updated graphics in the sequel to the Tech Trends talk (fordham.edu/techtrends) I gave last year.  Working title:  A New Information Age. 

I’ll also be talking about things like growing your PLN, using curation tools, the history of online learning at Fordham, effective pedagogy, hybrid/online learning, and more.

One more teaser....  YouTube channel launch coming soon...

Recent Recipe

I made during the last Zoom Dinner I had and it was delicious!  Can’t wait to make it again.

Fish, adobo light, cracked lemon pepper, garlic olive oil spray, garlic powder in the nuwave Toasted, with a little melted butter Light mayo/sour cream + lots of relish Lemon juice

Optional:  With a raw pepper in place of cheese

 I’ll leave you with a quote from Galaxy Quest 

Never give up. Never surrender.

be well, k

The Power of Play

3/14  Pi Day, School Walkout, Stephen Hawking, and more

A lot happening today!  I just wanted to post a couple of updates and thoughts...  

Before I had breakfast this morning I heard the word that Stephen Hawking had passed away.  What an amazing human being, such an incredible loss for the world.  And what an amazing coincidence for him to die on Einstein’s birthday...

Stephen Hawking

Stephen Hawking Taught Us a Lot About How to Live (NYT)

Stephen Hawking Dies at 76; His Mind Roamed the Cosmos (NYT Obituary)

Stephen Hawking: Visionary physicist dies aged 76 (BBC)

This is the most dangerous time for our planet (Stephen Hawking 12/16)

Stephen Hawking Was Right To Worry About Our Impending Doom (io9)

Stephen Hawking’s most mind-blowing discovery: black holes can shrink:   Hawking radiation, explained by a physicist. (Vox)

Stephen Hawking’s 5 best and nerdiest pop culture cameos:  When Hawking wasn’t changing the world, he played himself on TV. He was hilarious. (Vox)

Pi Day

I always look forward to Pi Day...  friends usually send me Pi Day pictures and animated gifs...  I wore my new Pi shirt to PT today and I’ve finally updated my Pi Page :)  You can also check out my new Flickr post on Pi Day...

School Walkout

These two photos from the 17 photos from today's National School Walkout for gun control that should terrify the NRA are my favorite:

#NationalWalkoutDay on Twitter

Previous post on tumblr about gun violence

More Congressional Fail: Elected Officials Think They Are Underpaid

(follow-up to Huffington Post piece-- read comments!)

absolutely outrageous...  

psychopath

Pen addiction

Read more over at Flickr