Today is Day 1 of THATCamp CHNMÂ (aka THATCamp Prime). In Day 1 there have been a series of workshops and we’ll culminate with a live recording of Digital Campus. My workshop this morning, attended by 30 campers, was on “Pedagogies of Disruption.” The focus of the workshop was on thinking about the fundamental values of…
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Lying About the Past on the CBC
The Canadian Broadcast Corporation radio show Spark has included an interview with me about Lying About the Past. The podcast of the show is here and the full interview is here. It was a lot of fun speaking with host Nora Young and I like the lead in to the segment…using an urban legend story…
Wikipedia and Me
In December 2006 I was a panelist for the first (or maybe second) round of NEH Digital Start Up grants. Because this was a new program at the NEH, then NEH Chairman Bruce Cole sat in on our deliberations to see what issues the panelists thought were important or not. At the conclusion of the…
From Renegade Blogger to Sociopathic Pond Scum
Back in 2007 I had the temerity to suggest that H-Net’s days might be numbered. That suggestion earned me, among other things, the title “renegade blogger.” Now, it seems, I’ve made the transition to “sociopathic pond scum.” As I told some teenagers last night, I suppose that means I’ve finally arrived on the Internet. A…