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Dec 24th

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Teachers have regularly used technologies to... →

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Feb 11th

Family update

My uncle wrote and asked what we were up to. This is what I wrote back, in case you’re interested: If you have an Internet connection and a browser you can find out quite a lot about us. If you Google Vance Stevens the first hit there that’s not about me is way back on page 5 (all the rest for 5 pages are hits to something about me) and there are some good links in the right...

Apr 21st

Hey, thanks Karenne, for the recognition,... →

Feb 21st

Vance of Arabia →

Feb 17th

Is this blog the cat's meow?

i-speech seems to think so, and have created a permalink here http://www.ispeech.org/view/10/761496 attesting that fact just from my having tried out their site. I simply entered my text in the text box and I got a permalink AND an embed code, which I entered here via the HTML feature in the text box. Now to see if it works …

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Oct 16th

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pomponette by Popof http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/1749 Easy electric guitar solos Your rights on this album You can copy, distribute, advertise and play this album as long as you: Give credit to the artistDon’t use this album for commercial purposesDistribute all derivative works under the same license For something a little more robust, and a drum drum back-beat Un...

Sep 21st

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Ruptures by DIY-note http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/691 Your rights on this album You can copy, distribute, advertise and play this album as long as you: Give credit to the artistDon’t use this album for commercial purposes

Sep 21st

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The Best of BlueMoons 2009 by PeerGynt Lobogris http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/49596 Your rights on this album You can copy, distribute, advertise and play this album as long as you: Give credit to the artistDon’t use this album for commercial purposesDistribute all derivative works under the same license Also if you like this one, try … Bluemoon II Dreams by...

Sep 21st

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This one is quite different. Reminiscent of Jefferson Airplane, but at the opera! The Butcher’s Ballroom by Diablo Swing Orchestra http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/49216 Your rights on this album You can copy, distribute, advertise and play this album as long as you: Give credit to the artistDon’t use this album for commercial purposesDon’t alter, transform or...

Sep 20th

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I’m trying to get a Voki avatar to appear here :-)

Aug 19th

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Hey, cool, I'm being aggregated on the... →

Aug 10th

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I guess I was experimenting with video embeds here (and it works). This one is Meno Rich’s Ustream recording of Moira Hunter’s WiAOC presentation from May 2009. This is some really cool virtual camera work, check it out …

May 23rd

inviting all passionate about edtech to 3rd biannual WiAOC free online conference May 22-24, details: http://htxt.it/iXEa

May 14th

Up early am and in office late crashing out paper associated with my TESOL Denver presentation on CoPs http://htxt.it/i0Rr

Apr 5th

I’m at TESOL Arabia conference in Dubai, hanging out in IT room (Brd Rm 350). Not much in IT in reg sessions. If you’re at conf tweet back.

Mar 13th

In case anyone wonders where I’ve been lately, I’ve been wandering between Refuge and La Cabane here, http://tinyurl.com/adzc4p only $28/day

Mar 10th

Bad news: diving canceled, red tide. Good news: now have time to post conversation with Robin Good to http://hellotxt.com/l/SQr7

Feb 27th

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Feb 23rd

just finished updating slides from #AACE09, cleaned out link rot, added extra value, uploaded to http://hellotxt.com/l/uhBK #evo2009mlit

Feb 21st

Interesting guitar work and stop motion here, even the commercial is not all that unpleasant http://hellotxt.com/l/HcqI -Enjoy

Feb 20th

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Feb 18th

After a decade of inroads, SUCCESS in modeling...

I am not able to post this, I’m becoming disillusioned with Tumblr. Perhaps it’s too long. It keeps disappearing. At least after the first time I backed it up. I’m going to put it at a wiki instead … hours wasted posting, watching it vanish … Moved to http://aace2009vance.pbwiki.com ===> The above document points to all the online conferences I’ve been...

Feb 16th

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Edupunk, multiliteracies, communities of...

I’ve been thinking a lot about these topics lately and how I can converge them into an abstract I have to write today, a ppt I have to create for an important online conference presentation, and a talk I have to write up as if I were delivering a ‘paper’ at the TESOL conference in Denver this March (I’m on two symposium panels). I was thinking up to now about WHICH to...

Feb 16th

I’m starting to favor my Tumblr blog over my real one; can throw up stuff covertly w/ only one follower :-) http://hellotxt.com/l/8lMx

Feb 16th

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Feb 9th

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Making the Shift Happen - an interview with Kim...

These are some notes on a session I moderated with Kim Cofino, author of the very cogent blog post Making the Shift Happen (Always Learning, Feb 24, 2008): http://mscofino.edublogs.org/2008/02/24/making-the-shift-happen/. The occasion was a live meeting in Elluminate (donated by Learning Times) as part of the Multiliteracies for Social Networking and Collaborative Learning Environments course...

Jan 24th

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Connectivism: Learning Theory or Pastime of the...

These are some notes I made from a paper by George Siemens which he posted here: http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/connectivism_self-amused.htm The notes were intended to guide me in hosting a conversation with George on Jan 19, 2009, which was announced here: http://goodbyegutenberg.pbwiki.com/Events_Schedule. The talk was recorded and can be replayed here: http://tinyurl.com/090119siemens ...

Jan 19th

wonders what he’s doing here in Kampala, just hooked up with a travel buddy from 20 yrs ago Korakoram to Kashgar, he’ll remind me …

Jan 5th

Dec 29th

wants to thank everyone who sent seasons & personal greetings to me via Facebook or to all in my PLE/DLN. Can this be done thru hellotxt?

Dec 27th

Leaving Colombo hotel with wireless, next stop Abu Dhabi. Anyone dying to know what we did last week can check http://hellotxt.com/l/Otex

Dec 13th

Just surfaced (literally) from week in Maldives, Colombo wet noisy hectic culture shock after Kuramathi - but Internet here (more shock ;-))

Dec 8th

Finished multiliteracies syllabus at http://hellotxt.com/l/jpKN now going to airport, Maldives, offline for a week

Dec 1st

#FOC08 I just updated my podcast site with image & more info at http://hellotxt.com/l/Gvyi - session with @minhaaj @nelliemuller

Nov 21st

Nov 16th

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Monitter what's going on in the Twittersphere

Carla Arena says she likes my Tumblr Blog because she can pick my brain here. Tonight I picked hers. In the EVO moderator’s Elluminate session she mentioned she was playing with Monitter http://monitter.com/ which is a neat little mashup to let you moniter in real time what’s being said on any three search strings. That’s not apparent, but the search ‘terms’ can be...

Nov 16th

What do you say to people who ask, Twitter? What's...

I’ve had problems just lately getting Twitter in my office where I work. Twitter is at http://www.twitter.com . A technician offered to help restore service but asked me to first explain what Twitter is. I wrote: Twitter is an online social networking software that is unique in that it limits all correspondence at any one time to 240 characters, the limit of text in an SMS message. People, in...

Nov 12th

Testing media competencies?

Heike Philp started this off by suggesting a test “in the use of state-of-the-art Internet communication technology, an intensive 3-month course, costly, formal, portfolio and assessment with the result of obtaining a certificate,” and she says it would be a “a simple LANCELOT test/ assessment” that would cover “not pedagogical skills but media literacy.” ...

Nov 11th