• Working on the McKay School’s WPMU-as-OCW-/-open-teaching platform. @jimgroom, I’ll probably be calling on your many skills today! =) #
  • @jimgroom First ?. My themes are a mess. I only want there to be one theme, and I want to enforce it site-wide. Tips or links? #
  • @jbasdf When will I be able to get search results out of folksemantic? I’d love to do some demos during upcoming trips… #
  • Getting ready to chat with Andrew Jensen, Executive Director Utah Student Association, about textbooks, affordability, and what we might do. #
  • Don’t the arguments against universal socialized medicine also argue against universal socialized education (i.e. public schools)? #
  • At the Curriki-Hearst OER Fellows meeting in West Chester, PA #
  • @gsiemens If there’s time for questions, ask Merrill to summarize the empirical literature on learner control. =) in reply to gsiemens #
  • @gsiemens It will feel like a public flogging at first, but that will give you an opportunity to provide a compelling response! =) #edmedia in reply to gsiemens #
  • @gsiemens Absolutely! #edmedia in reply to gsiemens #
  • @gsiemens Key phrases to watch out for - “blind leading the blind” and “pooled ignorance.” #edmedia in reply to gsiemens #
  • @gsiemens Based on the ideas that became the self-org paper, Merrill and I have been having this argument for 10 years now. #edmedia in reply to gsiemens #
  • @gsiemens “Successful learner control” is highly correlated with learner expertise. #edmedia in reply to gsiemens #
  • @gsiemens Merrill’s critiques of learner control will all deal with “novices.” #edmedia in reply to gsiemens #
  • @gsiemens Try to make him cede this point publicly. :) #edmedia in reply to gsiemens #
  • @gsiemens You’re an expert and have context in which to interpret your learning. #edmedia #
  • @gsiemens The problem comes when we ask novices to learn as if they were experts. And Merrill is more interested in novices. #edmedia #
  • After Star Trek, my 12 yr old demands to know how to calculate the radius of a black hole’s event horizon. Thank you, WolframAlpha! #
  • Date @ Olive Garden tonight. Our server was very unresponsive. E and I decide the appropriate tip is $4.04 and die laughing. Best wife ever! #
  • @gconole You calculate the $4.04 tip for a poor server as follows: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_404 in reply to gconole #