Posted in 3235, 3082, 2993, 2735, 3354, 3355, 3358, 3357, 3356, 2966, 2962, reading, blog, posts, the, today, a, and, inspiring, General on Feb 21st, 2008 Comments Off
The Intro. to New Media Studies class today was pretty explosive. I had assigned excerpts in The New Media Reader from McLuhan’s Gutenberg Galaxy and The Medium is the Message. I was up this morning about 5, reading some insightful and tremendously inspiring blog posts from the class. A couple of the posts were especially […]
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Posted in 3189, 3190, 3188, 3187, 3186, 3191, 3192, 3196, 3195, 3194, 3193, 2751, 2754, session, the, educause, brian, inspiring, and, 3028, 2898, a, 2831, General on Feb 7th, 2008 Comments Off
At EDUCAUSE 2007, outgoing President Brian Hawkins delivered heartfelt and inspiring farewell address in a special session on lessons of leadership. It was pure Brian, and it was marvelous. At one point in the talk, Brian gave us the stern warning to “avoid incrementalism.” I tweeted that moment, and Chris Lott, a blogger of tremendous […]
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Posted in session, meeting, book, highly, opening, doris, intensely, inspiring, goodwin, kearns, speakers, great, recommend, the, read, devoted, team, summer can, rivals, breakfast, extending, General on Oct 25th, 2007 Comments Off
A great day, beginning with the speakers’ breakfast, extending into an intensely inspiring opening session with Doris Kearns Goodwin (I read her Team of Rivals this summer–can’t recommend this book too highly), a great meeting devoted to online learning, at least two wonderful conversations in the afternoon … such a feast.
But aside from Goodwin, whose […]
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