I write code, I seem to be ok doing it, but sometimes I want to write the machine in War Games or HAL or the stuff Richard Pryor does in Superman 2 except the bit when the small Russian Lady ends up like a build your own Cyberman.…
Author Archives: Pat
Revolving Open Doors
Last week at OER13 I presented with Cleo Hanaway on OpenJoyce, a new academic and educational space for researching and learning about James Joyce. One part of OpenJoyce is to look into how “open” is now defined and how it can best be understood and explained; this to me is the key – Open can be understood, but can it be explained?…
Dear TechCrunch
Dear TechCrunch,
Just thought I’d write to catch up and discuss peace terms as a member of the “old guard” and “going down without fight”. Based on your commentary – which I must praise you on as it reminded me of the Pulitzer prize winning photographs from Vietnam for its reportage.…
The Boil, Lansing
Lansing is the capital of the state of Michigan, it is a pun ok?
http://www.educause.edu/ero/article/ten-years-later-why-open-educational-resources-have-not-noticeably-affected-higher-education-and-why-we-should-ca
So lets play a game
Open educational resources made a dramatic appearance with the 2002 debut of MIT’s Open Courseware initiative.
A dramatic appearance, what like a cape twirl?…
Post-Fukayama
Based on this, Fukuyama and the Post-Human
Instead of Big Brother watching everyone, people could use the PC and internet to watch Big Brother, as governments everywhere were driven to publish more information on their own activities
the collapse of totalitarian empires and the emergence of the personal computer, as well as other forms of inexpensive information technology, from TVs and radios to faxes and email – were not unrelated
were not unrelated – SERIOUSLY?…
MOOC Player / Manager
So this was going to be a blog about player-managers, which I delightfully assumed was so much a football (NO, NOT SOCCER FOOTBALL) concept that I’d have to explain player-manager first. So I go to Wikipedia, and it turns out Curly Lambeau, who not only played for and coached the Green Bay Packers, but also founded them.…