Because insisting words have actual meanings, is, you know, hard:
In my view, basically the president is a socialist, a person who craves for collectivist, government solutions to problems, and is deeply distrustful of private enterprise.
Always a proud day at the Chronicle.
Update: So what about this Vedder guy that the Chronicle hires to write this tripe? [...]
Aug
31
2010
31
2010
Chronicle’s Innovations Column: Obama is a Socialist
Aug
25
2010
25
2010
The Wal-Mart Money Behind the Recent Report on HE “Administrative Bloat”
In a perfect world, people would be smart enough to realize what a report from the “Goldwater Institute” was pretty much duty bound to say about Higher Education. But hey, in a perfect world we’d have a functioning press and a commitment to public education as a cornerstone of democracy.
So I don’t know if I [...]
Aug
23
2010
23
2010
Two Skunkworks That Actually Might Work
Anya has suggested institutions might support the creation of a skunkworks project to break through the fossilization of Higher Ed.
Perhaps I can’t see the forest for the trees, but I see traditional skunkworks projects as most likely digging us deeper into a hole, forcing an us vs. them mentality among working faculty, and ultimately throwing [...]
Aug
10
2010
10
2010
EdCamp Keene Will Bridge the K-12 / Higher Ed Divide (Now with Proof!)
Short note — we’ve hit our limit on EdCamp Keene attendees of 115. We expect at least 20% melt, but that still leaves us with well over 80 participants.
So how true were we to our initial goal? You’ll remember we wanted to create an event that got passionate people from both the K-12 and the [...]
Aug
9
2010
9
2010
Interlibrary Loan is the Prototypical Red Balloon Project
New projects need prototypes. When twitter first came out, people often asked me what it was. And to the extent I told them it was an entirely new thing they would tune out. I realized very quickly however that there were two ways to describe it that got people to sign up — to bloggers, [...]
Aug
2
2010
2
2010
WikiLeaks to Self-Fund Using Flattr
A match made in Heaven — WikiLeaks goes with Pirate Bay founder’s social micropayment system. Via TechCrunch::
WikiLeaks, the Sweden-based organisation that publishes anonymous leaks of secret material (most recently 90,000 documents about the War in Afghanistan) has until now, relied on donations to fund its activities. That’s lead to outages when funds became scarce, for [...]
Jul
27
2010
27
2010
Why Flattr Matters
I’ve been meaning to write about Flattr, and blogging, and OER and why it is potentially such an important development. I’ve stopped each time I’ve gone to post, because I have far too much to say about it. I’ll get to it later, I’ve thought.
Then today, a good friend of mine whose internet work [...]
Jul
2
2010
2
2010
Vuvuzela Flash Mobs for eCitizenship
I’m working on Keene State’s eCitizenship project, and although we haven’t really gotten rolling yet, I’ve been keeping notes on various things I’ve seen that could be neat to tease out some issues of what citizenship means in a networked world.
The most recent thing to get my attention is the “Vuvuzelas For BP” project. [...]
May
24
2010
24
2010
Digging into UMW, Part II: The Art and Craft of EDUPUNK
Let’s start with this: UMW is ahead, possibly by two or three years, of any university or college I know of when it comes to campus-wide integration of networked learning in the classroom. So much of what I say will, oddly enough, not be relevant to most institutions. Most of us are still scaling that [...]
Feb
4
2010
4
2010
Stop capturing classes, and start capturing explanations.
What does “Good Enough” OER look like?
It looks like Sal Khan.
I just saw his stuff via Jon Udell, and it blew me away. Technically, it’s not under an open license, but every single person involved in OER should look at the site. Right now.
Forget the “lecture capture” vendors. Don’t worry about editing out false [...]