""How can we better use data and/or research visualization in the humanities?""

"I'm blaming the people who've decided that the lack of a single online system is a problem that somehow needs to be fixed - as if having a hundred professors teaching the same subject a hundred different ways was a problem that they ever would have thought of fixing during the pre-Internet age. Well, I want to break free, and I think that it's best for education if as many other faculty members as possible break free with me. "

"What follows is - depending on how you want to think about it - either a gallery of technologies we lost or an invitation to consider alternate futures. Some of what might have been is fantastical: a subway powered by air, an engine run off the heat of your palm. Some of what we lost, on the other hand, is more subtle, like a better way to bowl or type. As new standards emerge, variety fades, and a single technology becomes entrenched. (That's why the inefficient Qwerty keyboard has proved so difficult to unseat.) We can take heart, however, in the fact that good ideas never disappear forever; the Stirling engine didn't pan out in the Industrial Revolution, for example, but it can keep the lights on for a small village. As you look through the images, then, please consider not only what might have been but what could still be again."

"There. I did it. I wrote the damned "future of the LMS" post. And I did it mostly by copying and pasting from posts I wrote 10 years ago. I am now going to go pour myself a drink. Somebody please wake me again in another decade."

How's this for a course site?

"The findings of this study indicated that when teachers described their successful practices, they often linked them to their changing roles and new representation of their "selves" within an online environment. Their portrayal of the teacher self, both built on a plethora of previous experiences and reformed with the affordances and limitations of the online environment, went through a process whereby teachers were constantly challenged to make themselves heard, known, and felt by their students. This study showed that it was critical to listen to teachers' voices and give them a participatory role in the creation and use of their knowledge and experience in order to form their online teacher personas. As a result, programs that prepare faculty to teach online may need to encourage teachers to reflect on their past experiences, assumptions, and beliefs toward learning and teaching and transform their perspectives by engaging in pedagogical inquiry and problem solving."

Whoa. Just whoa.

This is the homepage of the University of Oklahoma's Domain of One's Own project.

Worth tracking...

I still can't quite grok what Mike Caulfield is doing with Smallest Federated Wiki, but this helps me more than anything else I've read. The videos sure help.

This is what community can look like online.

GREAT examples of the participatory culture of the Web as applied to a serious institution, the #SCOTUS

This would be a tremendous addition alongside the Campus Learning Center, the Writing Center, etc.

Some good publicity for an online certificate program, a new addition to our online program offerings.

"How do I want to be online? A human open educational resource to those who seek my help navigating this disturbing and ambiguous space so full of wonder."