open thinking

My first post to this blog is dated March 11, 2004. So this post marks the fifth birthday of my blog! Happy Birthday Open Thinking!!!

This space has helped me to enjoy some of the greatest learning experiences of my career. It has connected me to many brilliant thinkers. It has enabled me to write and [...]

I have been awarded 2nd place in the educational category of the Canadian Blog Awards. I’m taking that designation with a grain of salt as there are many excellent Canadian educational blogs that weren’t even mentioned in the process. Thus, I’d like to start a list of active, longer-term, Canadian educational blogs. Here are the [...]

I forgot about this, but I have been nominated for a Canadian Blog Award in the Education category. I am very flattered to be in such amazing company (and not sure I belong). There are MANY other excellent Canadian blogs that should be in this list.

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Aseem Badshah has put together a list of the top 100 (or so) educational blogs. All blogs have at least a 50 or higher Technorati rating. Of course, with any list like this, there are always excellent blogs missed. Aseem describes himself as “a 19 year old student working to bring technology to schools.”
Here [...]

Here’s an interesting article from Inside Higher Ed titled “A Skeptic’s Take on Academic Blogs.”
Here’s my favorite piece, on that supports the decentralized argument. The author is talking about moving from a decentralized form of blogging (people have their own blogs) vs. a group blog format.
I have come to the conclusion that what was [...]