Teaching as performance in the electronic classroom Through all the intellectual storms of history, teaching has remained, above all, a performance art that unfolds in real time. I’ve always thought that the most important difference between me and a textbook is that I am a better storyteller! I’m only half-joking when I say this.

I’ve been spending so much time enjoying some of the new voices in the ed-tech blogosphere that I haven’t been doing a whole lot of blogging myself lately (although another car-podcast is definitely in the works). It seems like spring is bringing a fresh new set of voices online, and my bloglines account is getting larger all the time. I was intrigued, curious and even somewhat concerned by a recent comment on Ideas and thoughts from an EdTech (Dean Shareski): By the way, when does one officially attain the title of “blogvangelist”? Apparently the need to identify yourself as a blogvangelist has been anticipated by Will, who has set up a line of blogvangelist t-shirts for those who wish to self identify. Cool, but I don’t think I’ll be getting one, although the I blog therefore I am t-shirt does … Continue reading »

It has been over a month since my last podcast so it is well past time for another stigmergicweb podcast. You can find it at http://www.omegageek.net/podcasts/stigwebpdcst_2005-04-04.mp3. Show notes (such as they are): This show was recorded earlier this evening on my spanking new iRiver 795 in my car and in my computer lab at the school. The only editing was a bit of compression in Audacity; all the rest is recorded directly. Topics of discussion: Easter holiday in Edmonton Moodle ugly school web pages Drupal much rambling, in a charming sort of way Enjoy, and leave comments here!

Last week, I had the chance to have an actual vacation from work/courses/projects – the first time in a long time this happened. I was actually hoping to get a bit of work done on a couple of different things (liking getting ahead of the game for preparation for my classes), but the internet connection was not working for the entire time that we were staying in our hotel. I was more than slightly annoyed by this, but took advantage to get a few good nights of sleep and enjoy the time I had with my wife and daughter. Of course, upon my return I saw that my bloglines account was full beyond my ability to comprehend so most items got a very quick read. I was interested to learn about the WordPress (non)-scandal. Sometimes its nice to find out … Continue reading »