Archive for January, 2006

Jan 31 2006

Engaging Digital Natives and Empowering Digital Immimgrants

Published by Andy Rush under IT

There is a discussion going on right now at ELI 2006 Annual Meeting regarding the changing role of “Instructional Designer”. I put that term in quotes because it is meaningless without context. We are leaning toward the term “Learning Design”. In this discussion we ARE designing instruction. We are beginning the analysis in the very [...]

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Jan 30 2006

Reflecting

Published by Andy Rush under IT

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Jerry had a really nice post that brought up some genuine emotion from both Gardner and me. It’s still Monday morning at the ELI 2006 Annual Meeting, but there already has been a lot of reflecting. I also have my work cut out for me to summarize what’s so great about being [...]

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Jan 29 2006

We Have a New Nickname For Our Leader

Published by Andy Rush under General

Aggregation Presentation: My So Called Glu’d Life

Originally uploaded by Looking For Fish Tacos At ELI 2006.

Gardner Campbell, a.k.a. Dr Glu

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Jan 29 2006

I Am So There

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Beyond The Blog: Ready For Prime Time

Originally uploaded by Looking For Fish Tacos At ELI 2006.

How could a good instructional technologist not be psyched about seeing this presentation. I also might just try one of them fish tacos before I leave.

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Jan 29 2006

Google In China

Published by Andy Rush under News & Commentary

Quick start to my morning here in San Diego - Not news really any more, but despite what you might think, there are those that aren’t in the Google has become evil camp for capitulating on censorship in China. A thoughtful post by Jason Calacanis - read and discuss.

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Jan 29 2006

Virgin Airlines

Published by Andy Rush under General

Well, I’m not a virgin any more. I’m writing this to you from San Diego, site of the aforementioned ELI Conference. I will start full time blogging when the conference starts officially on Monday, but I’ll do some unofficial blogging tomorrow.
Before I sign off, I need to get my mind clear of the thoughts of [...]

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Jan 29 2006

41 Year Old Virgin

Published by Andy Rush under IT

I’m trying to be casual because everybody else looks very casual and relaxed. Maybe it’s a game we all play. Flights come and go all the time. I’m not nervous about the flight, I’m just nervous that I will do something that makes it quite obvious that this is my first time in an airplane. [...]

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Jan 26 2006

What Do You Think of Apple?

Published by Andy Rush under News & Commentary

Who out there is a fan of the direction, or directions, that Apple is taking lately?
As I stated previously Dave Winer and Kevin Yank aren’t.
Martha isn’t.
Brian isn’t.
Gardner isn’t and still isn’t.
D’Arcy says not so fast.
The latest controversy invloves the TV ad for the new Mac/Intel computers. It seems that a few years ago, a music [...]

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Jan 24 2006

Will Is Going to Make a Ton of Money

Published by Andy Rush under IT

I got this notice on Friday about a new book from Will Richardson. C’mon $61.95? Well it turns out that the actual price is $27.95 if you dig deeper. I hope no one got scared off, because it sounds like a great book. Will’s Weblogg-ed site is one of my favorite educational blogs, and he [...]

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Jan 20 2006

So What Are You Working On Andy? - BOOM!

Published by Andy Rush under Audio & Video, IT

Head . . .Full . . . of . . . Stuff. Must . . . jettison . . . information. Head . . . about . . . to . . . explode . . .
People ask me what I’m up to lately. Here are a couple of items from today.
Taking pictures of [...]

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