Asides

I'm wondering if I have a future in edtech, or a place in that field now. I'm just not feeling relevant or useful. A cog in the wheel, but I'm not even sure the wheel is turning, or if it is, in what direction. You know? I'm feeling so much more energized by biking, photography, geeking out with The Boyâ„¢ than I am with "edtech." Campus blogging? Still? Wikis? OER? I can't believe how unchanged things are. I may as well still be hammering away at a Learning Objects Repository, for all the effect I've been having. Why not just let go of all of this crap and just move on to something different?

The Boy's school is having some awesome-sounding live-action Pirates! show today. Canons. Swords. Pyrotechnics. Sounds like a blast, and I wish I could go watch.

The parents group blocked the school from offering yoga as part of the phys ed program because they didn't like the message it sent the kids.

Glorifying violence and robbery are fine. Just don't try to get the kids to have a greater understanding of their own bodies.

I'm officially back. I need a vacation from the vacation, but I'm back.

Some photos from the trip

comments disabled until I get back so I'm not having to think about fracking spamroaches when I should be drinking cold beer on a tropical beach.

From the iTunes terms of service:

TERMS OF SALE

CANADIAN SALES ONLY

Purchases or rentals (as applicable) from the iTunes Store are available to you only in Canada. If you are not in Canada you may not use or attempt to use the service. iTunes may use technologies to verify such compliance.

Do I get to use the US store if I'm south of the border?

I had been filtering out a couple of categories from the main feed on my blog. Asides and Coursework. Each had their own separate feed, and I wasn't wanting to pollute the main feed with noise. But, strangely, people are asking why I don't just let everything flow into the main feed.

Fine. It's all in the main feed now. Asides and Coursework don't show up on the front page of the site, but their posts go into the feed.

this post is the 2,000th one published to my blog. wow.

mass media outlets spent 67 quidjillion dollars trying to make Canadians care that "local" media outlets are having financial difficulties. Then, they come up with this level of genius to prove their relevance:

thankfully, at least a handful of people know the difference between a city and a province:

It's been 9 years since DiscoverWare went under. I flipped through my old code/design notebook...

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The Boyâ„¢ wanted to explore Second Life this evening, so we fired up the new SL2 beta client, and went to (virtual) Hawaii, before spending some quality time at the NASA education island. I'm a little scared at how easily he picks it up...

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oops. it's pretty easy to forget to plug the external drive into the laptop every now and then so it can get backed up automatically. On the desktop at work, I leave the time machine drive plugged in, so it's always up to date. Need to be less forgetful with the home laptop, considering that's where all of our family photos live...

there is no edublogosphere. there are people, who do stuff, and who write stuff (or don't). that is all.

it's impossible to define what an "edublogosphere" is, never mind who is in it, and how it should or shouldn't work. that's just pointless blibber blabber.