Podcasts on D'Arcy Norman, PhD

AI Rounds: Teaching Through Change - Navigating AI and Educational Technology Disruption

dnorman@me.com (D'Arcy Norman) — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 10:20:00 +0000

I was recently interviewed by Dr. Jessalyn Holodinsky for the UCalgary Cumming School of Medicine’s AI Rounds Podcast. We talked about the Weathering Waves of Change blog post I wrote, and how it relates to AI and teaching and learning.

25 Years of Edtech: In Search of Learning Objects

dnorman@me.com (D'Arcy Norman) — Fri, 25 Dec 2020 10:35:54 -0700

Martin Weller’s book 25 Years of Ed Tech is a great people’s history of educational technology, covering the major innovations over the last 25 years. He published it through the Athabasca University Press under a Creative Commons License. As a result it’s been adopted by the edtech community, who have produced an audiobook version, as well as a “between the chapters” discussion series.

Chapter 7 is on Learning Objects, read by Brian Lamb. I was part of the Between the Chapters discussion for the chapter, with Brian Lamb, John Robertson and myself¹, hosted by Laura Pasquini.

Interview: UCalgary's What the Tech Podcast

dnorman@me.com (D'Arcy Norman) — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 10:00:00 -0600

The UCalgary Department of Computer Science has been publishing a great podcast series called What the Tech? It’s intended as a way to share some of the work being done by faculty members and grad students, and covers a pretty wide range of topics. I was asked to be on the show to talk about learning technologies, innovation, and some of the things I’m going to be working on for my PhD research.

Reclaiming Educational Technology Part 4: Higher Ed and startup cultures

dnorman@me.com (D'Arcy Norman) — Tue, 01 Oct 2019 10:00:27 +0000

The fourth and final part of the Reclaiming Educational Technology series, recorded at the University of Mary Washington after Open Education 2014.

This segment features commentary from:

Audrey Watters - HackEducation.com
Ben Werdmuller - Cofounder, Known
Erin Richey - Cofounder, Known

Reclaiming Educational Technology Part 3: Flexible and open

dnorman@me.com (D'Arcy Norman) — Mon, 30 Sep 2019 10:00:46 +0000

Recorded at the University of Mary Washington after Open Education 2014, this episode features commentary from:

Audrey Watters - HackEducation.com
Tim Owens - UMW (now Reclaim Hosting)
Ben Werdmuller - Cofounder, Known
Jim Groom - UMW (now Reclaim Hosting)

Reclaiming Educational Technology Part 2: Fostering a culture of innovation

dnorman@me.com (D'Arcy Norman) — Sat, 28 Sep 2019 11:59:03 +0000

This one’s a gem. Well, they all are, but this interview is especially relevant for me because at the time of the interview UMW’s DTLT had just moved into their shiny new digs - and the Taylor Institute at UCalgary was still under construction. There were a LOT of parallels between DTLT and what was becoming the TI at UCalgary. The tension between “Innovation” and “Enterprise” colours all of our work, and it was great to hear from these amazing people about their work and experiences in the field.

Reclaiming Edtech Part 2: Fostering a culture of innovation, featuring commentary from:

Martha Burtis - UMW (now Open CoLab at Plymouth State University)
Tim Owens - UMW (now Reclaim Hosting)
Jim Groom - UMW (now Reclaim Hosting)

Reclaiming Educational Technology Part 1: The Business and Politics of Edtech

dnorman@me.com (D'Arcy Norman) — Fri, 27 Sep 2019 10:33:25 +0000

It’s time to re-reboot the podcast, starting by resurrecting the audio from the Reclaiming Educational Technology interviews that were recorded during a hackathon event hosted at the University of Mary Washington after Open Education 2014.

I keep coming back to these episodes, even 5 years later, as they are full of amazing insights by incredibly passionate and interesting people. I’ll be posting the audio from all 4 episodes shortly…

This episode features:

Audrey Watters - HackEducation.com
Kin Lane - APIEvangelist.com
Martha Burtis - University of Mary Washington (but now at the Open CoLab at Plymouth State University)

Richard Zach and Aaron Thomas-Bolduc introduce OERs

dnorman@me.com (D'Arcy Norman) — Wed, 07 Mar 2018 16:36:46 +0000

As part of Open Education Week at the University of Calgary, Richard Zach and Aaron Thomas-Bolduc gave a presentation to introduce the concept of OERs, where to find them, and how to make them. Lots of love sent to BCCampus’ Open Textbook initiative and Pressbooks.

Brian Lamb and RRU's LRNT 525 class

dnorman@me.com (D'Arcy Norman) — Tue, 27 Feb 2018 12:26:19 +0000

It’s time to kick off the Taylor Institute Learning Technologies (TILT) podcast series. I was fortunate to be invited to chat with Brian Lamb and Royal Roads University’s LRNT 525 class, nominally to talk about institutional change management and decision making, but it turned into a wide-ranging discussion of innovation and the tension between creativity and enterprise-scale.

Web 2.0 is (kinda) people

dnorman@me.com (D'Arcy Norman) — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 17:46:00 +0000

My contribution for the DS106 assignment #3: WTF is Web 2.0?

WebTwoDotOh

I used clips from:

The audio features the first ever public guitar playing of your humble author. I know it sucks. I figured I’d give it a shot, rather than trying to find some available music to play in the background to add some continuity between clips.

2008-11-12-radio-interview-on-biking-in-calgary

dnorman@me.com (D'Arcy Norman) — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:31:00 +0000

I was interviewed yesterday for a CBC Radio News report that was on the air this morning. We talked for about 15 minutes, and most of it hit the cutting room floor. But at least the bits that got broadcast weren’t too embarrassing…

CBC Radio News - Bikes in Calgary

Update: apparently they used different clips of the interview in different newscasts. Hopefully the others were less tattoo-centric and more pro-bike-safety :-)

Read/Write Web presentation (audio)

dnorman@me.com (D'Arcy Norman) — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 00:00:00 +0000

I’d planned on releasing a full presentation+audio version of the presentation, but it’s going to take me weeks to sync up the 105 slides to the 1-hour audio track.

So, in the meantime, here’s the audio-only portion of the presentation (27.2MB MP3). Not sure how well it stands on its own, but it might come in handy for someone.

Your browser does not support the audio element.

Direct link to audio file

Podcast: On blogging, and ePortfolios

dnorman@me.com (D'Arcy Norman) — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 08:55:39 +0000

Update: The podcast audio file was borked (thanks for the heads up, Brian!) so if you downloaded a 6 minute version, it’s truncated. The whole thing should be 18 minutes long, and is available here. Sorry about that…

Your browser does not support the audio element.

Direct link to audio file

So, I’m still not using the computer when I’m “off duty”, but that doesn’t mean I can’t stretch out on the couch with my iPod and TuneTalk microphone and think out loud about stuff after Evan’s gone to bed…

Podcasting demo for ADETA

dnorman@me.com (D'Arcy Norman) — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 12:00:00 +0000

(Resurrecting old podcasts from the archive…)

I just finished demonstrating podcasting for the ADETA group. During the session, I tried to upload audio to weblogs.ucalgary.ca to demonstrate podcast publishing and subscribing, but it failed for some unknown reason.

So, I’m trying again here. 2 podcast posts in one day… (you did notice the video from the last post was provided as a podcast enclosure - might even play on those fancy schmancy video iPods all the cool kids seem to have these days)

2005-06-29-podcast-2005-06-29

dnorman@me.com (D'Arcy Norman) — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 10:25:00 +0000

Just a quick podcast to say Howdy (or is that Aloha?) after returning to Calgary. This was supposed to be a very brief Hello podcast, but turned into a 14-minute ramble about the 3 weeks away from the office.

Trying out the new “Podcast” AAC export in iTunes (actually, I tweaked it a bit to make the file even smaller). If anyone misses MP3 format, let me know.

Brief outline:

Talk about iTunes podcasting support
I’m listed on the iTunes podcast directory - no idea how I got there, but it’s kinda cool… guess I should podcast a bit more…
Talk about EarthCore
Talk about WWDC2005
Talk about NMC2005/Honolulu

Tune in here.