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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 #

@AndyGibbons I think the kids and I are going to see Up tomorrow… in reply to AndyGibbons # RT @jonmott:New blog post: “PLNs, Portfolios, and a Loosely-Coupled Gradebook” http://bit.ly/5rJAn # Testimony to Education Interim Committee today very successful! Rule changes permitting K12 teachers to CC license their works coming soon? # Surprised to find that I’m enjoying Talmage’s “Jesus the Christ” much better on the Kindle than on paper. Integrated dictionary, perhaps? # “Giddy as a schoolgirl” over my 3rd row tickets for upcoming Take 6 concert. I’ve only waited - what - 20 years for this? # RT @courosa What are illegal downloads worth? http://tr.im/paWP # Information on Take 6 at the Scera on Mon Sep 7 is at http://www.scera.org/app/webroot/events/view/177. I paid $18 each for 3rd row seats!!! # Show support for democracy in Iran add green overlay to your Twitter avatar with 1-click - http://helpiranelection.com/ # Why? #

Sitting in an Open High School of Utah Board of Trustees meeting… #ohsu # Heading to Saskatoon! Should probably brush up on my Saskatoonese, eh? # Exhausted in Saskatoon. Working up new material for tomorrow’s talk… Promises to be interesting! # Set up and ready to begin speaking at U of S in Saskatoon! See you on the other side… # Talk at U of S in Saskatoon was a success! Heading back to Utah… # Happy 8th Birthday Noelle! Elaine’s homemade Pokemon birthday cake depicted all seven evolutions of Eevee! http://tinyurl.com/m4cf2r Amazing # I’m now @opencontent on both Twitter and Facebook - http://facebook.com/opencontent - get your Facebook username while you still can… # “Pray to know whonyou can help and it will rain people.” # “Pray to know who you can help and it will rain people.” # “Pray to know who you can help and it will rain people.” Julie Beck # Julie Beck: ‘Pray to know who you can help, and it will rain people.’ Amen! # “Live on the edge. Not the edge of evil, but the sharp edge of the righteousness of God.” Pres. Atkinson # “Obedience brings blessings. Exact obedience brings miracles.” Elder Cook (at Grove Creek Stake Conference this morning) #