Table of Contents

Tags

AA

• Adam D. Roberts (1)
• archives (1)
• assim­i­lat­ing infor­ma­tion (32)

BB

• Bar­bara DuCharme-Hansen (1)

CC

• Charles Dar­win (1)
• Christo­pher Alexan­der (2)
• civic engage­ment (1)
• cog­ni­tion (1)
• comics (1)
• com­mu­ni­ties of prac­tice (2)
• com­plex­ity (1)
• con­fer­ences (1)
• con­tin­u­ing edu­ca­tion (1)
• con­ver­sa­tions (2)
• cre­ativ­ity (1)

DD

• def­i­n­i­tions (3)
• demon­stra­tions (2)
• design ethos (6)
• dig­i­tal lit­era­cies (5)
• down­loads (3)

EE

• engag­ing with online learn­ing (41)
• eval­u­at­ing the qual­ity of dig­i­tal resources (20)
• expe­ri­ence & learn­ing (1)

FF

• food (1)

GG

• games (3)
• Gatineau (1)
• geo-ecology (1)
• graphic design (1)

HH

• health sci­ences edu­ca­tion (1)

II

• infor­mal learn­ing (1)
• infor­ma­tion abun­dance (1)
• infor­ma­tion design (2)
• inno­va­tion (1)
• Inte­gral Sys­tem (1)
• inter­ac­tions (1)
• IRRODL (1)

JJ

• Jack Crit­ten­den (1)
• Jo Walsh (1)
• Joel Ben­nett (1)
• John Dewey (1)

KK

• Kather­ine Fletcher (1)
• Ken Wilber (1)

LL

• learn­ing (1)
• learn­ing design (5)
• learn­ing the basics (1)
• learn­ing the­o­ries (2)
• List­phile (1)
• locat­ing infor­ma­tion and resources (17)
• Lor­raine Zinn (1)

MM

• Mal­colm Glad­well (1)
• Mar­garet Wheat­ley (1)
• Mark Bullen (1)
• mar­ket­ing (1)
• MDE (5)
• mean­ing mak­ing (2)
• Mer Bleue (1)
• metaphors (1)
• Michèle Mar­tin (1)
• micro­for­mats (3)
• mind­ful learn­ing (1)
• mobile learn­ing (1)

NN

• Nathan Olsen (1)
• net­worked learn­ing (1)
• net­work­ing (52)
• New­found­land (1)

OO

• Ottawa (3)

PP

• Pamela Dupin-Bryant (1)
• pat­terns & pat­tern design (5)
• Periph­eral Visions (1)
• per­sonal phi­los­o­phy (2)
• Peter Check­land (1)
• Phil Harkins (1)
• Philip Candy (1)
• Pierre Bayard (1)
• post­cards (4)
• posters (3)
• PubMed (2)

RR

• Ralph Brock­ett (1)
• read­ing lists (11)
• read­ing skills (1)
• recipes (3)
• recon­cep­tu­al­iz­ing under­stand­ings (25)
• Rich Gib­son (1)
• rich pic­tures (1)
• Robin Williams (1)
• Roger Hiem­stra (1)

SS

• Schuler Erle (1)
• sci­ence fic­tion (1)
• search (2)
• self-directed learn­ing (1)
• seman­tic web (5)
• shared knowl­edge & exper­tise (2)
• sit­u­ated learn­ing (1)
• Soft Sys­tems Method­ol­ogy (1)
• sys­tems think­ing (2)

TT

• tag­ging (2)
• tax­on­omy (1)
• tech­nol­ogy sup­ported learn­ing (3)
• The Blood Bank Strip (1)
• The Com­mon Loon (2)
• The Mar­riage of Sense and Soul (1)
• the­ory into prac­tice (2)
• Tom Brown Jr. (1)
• trans­fu­sion (5)

UU

• urban design (1)

VV

• visual lit­er­acy (2)

WW

• web design (5)
• women in tech­nol­ogy (1)
• Word­Press (4)
• work­place learn­ing (1)

Notes

Book Notes

• Con­trol­ling the Con­ver­sa­tion — March 23rd, 2009
• Gladwell’s Secrets of Suc­cess — Feb­ru­ary 1st, 2009
• Sub­vert­ing Our Rev­er­ence for Books — Feb­ru­ary 1st, 2009
• The Ama­teur Gourmet: On Learn­ing the Basics — Jan­u­ary 18th, 2009
• The Mar­riage of Sense and Soul — Novem­ber 19th, 2006
• The Non-Designer’s Design Book — August 20th, 2006
• Map­ping Hacks — August 19th, 2006
• Web-based Dis­tance Edu­ca­tion for Adults — June 5th, 2006

Field Notes

• Am I Part of the E-Learning Indus­try? — March 29th, 2010
• Women and the Tele­phone — March 24th, 2010
• Pro­rogue, Activism and the Power of Per­sonal Net­works — Jan­u­ary 25th, 2010
• Wear­able Text­books — Sep­tem­ber 8th, 2009
• Dis­patch: On Value, Cost and Price (no math) — March 21st, 2009
• 140 Char­ac­ters Or Less — March 12th, 2009
• Week­end Food Blog­ging: Choco­late Chip Cook­ies — Jan­u­ary 11th, 2009
• Week­end Food Blog­ging: Crock Pot Roast — Decem­ber 28th, 2008
• Week­end Food Blog­ging: Oat­cakes — April 27th, 2008
• Sto­ries from Beech­wood Ceme­tery — Octo­ber 8th, 2006
• Dis­patch: On Sum­mer Read­ing — August 18th, 2006
• Learn­ing by Obser­va­tion — August 4th, 2006
• Rorschach Wilder­ness Blots — June 28th, 2006
• Hot Air Bal­loon Over Ottawa — June 13th, 2006
• Dis­patch: On Sudoku, Engage­ment and Flow — June 5th, 2006
• An Inter­pre­tive Walk Through Mer Bleu — March 26th, 2006

Project Notes

• Using Web-Based Tools to Stay Cur­rent — Novem­ber 14th, 2009
• Dig­i­tal Lit­era­cies: Read­ing Signs Along The Way — March 16th, 2009
• Design­ing SOPs for Learn­ers — Octo­ber 31st, 2007
• Pat­terns for Com­plex Learn­ing — July 7th, 2006
• A Pic­to­r­ial His­tory of This Web­site — Octo­ber 31st, 2005
• The Com­mon Loon — Jan­u­ary 5th, 2005
• Are You Game? — Novem­ber 30th, 2004
• List­phile — July 26th, 2004
• Periph­eral Visions — May 8th, 2004
• The Blood Bank Strip — July 18th, 2002

Tech Notes

• The Inter­net Explorer 6 Dilemma — Feb­ru­ary 15th, 2010
• Cus­tomiz­ing Indi­vid­ual Blog Posts, Part 1 — May 24th, 2009
• Dress Up Your Blog for Dar­win Day — Feb­ru­ary 10th, 2009
• Trans­fu­sion Read­ing List — Sep­tem­ber 9th, 2007
• Style Author Com­ments with Word­Press Sand­box Theme — Feb­ru­ary 4th, 2007
• Smart Key­word Searches for Learn­ers — Novem­ber 4th, 2006
• Cre­ate A Glos­sary for Your Word­Press Site — May 20th, 2006

Half Notes

• Infor­ma­tion Abun­dance — Feb­ru­ary 2nd, 2010
• Visual Lit­er­acy — March 18th, 2009
• Alter­nate His­tory and Time Travel — Feb­ru­ary 15th, 2008
• Def­i­n­i­tions of Learn­ing — April 30th, 2007
• Com­mu­ni­ties of Prac­tice — Jan­u­ary 12th, 2007
• Sit­u­ated Learn­ing — Jan­u­ary 10th, 2007
• Links: Con­tin­u­ing Health Sci­ences Edu­ca­tion — Decem­ber 8th, 2006
• Learn­ing Orga­ni­za­tions — Novem­ber 26th, 2006
• Design Pat­terns, Pat­tern Lan­guage — Novem­ber 21st, 2006
• Really Sim­ple Syn­di­ca­tion — Octo­ber 30th, 2006
• eXten­si­ble Markup Lan­guage — Octo­ber 30th, 2006
• Archives, Archiv­ing — Sep­tem­ber 30th, 2006
• Infor­ma­tion Archi­tec­ture — Sep­tem­ber 10th, 2006
• Rich Pic­tures — May 29th, 2006
• Micro­for­mats — May 13th, 2006
• Social Book­mark­ing — April 22nd, 2006
• Links: News — Jan­u­ary 7th, 2006
• Design Exper­i­ments — Jan­u­ary 7th, 2006
• Christo­pher Alexan­der — Jan­u­ary 7th, 2006
• Games as Learn­ing — Decem­ber 16th, 2005
• My Learn­ing Man­i­festo — Sep­tem­ber 5th, 2005
• Inter­ac­tion in Dis­tance Edu­ca­tion — Octo­ber 20th, 2003
• On Teach­ing Oth­ers — June 5th, 2003

Link­ing Thinking

• EEngag­ing With Online Learning
• LLocat­ing Infor­ma­tion and Resources
• AAssim­i­lat­ing Information
• VEval­u­at­ing the Qual­ity of Dig­i­tal Resources
• RRecon­cep­tu­al­iz­ing Understandings
• NNet­work­ing

• Per­sonal data track­ing — April 30th, 2010
• Tex­tual pro­duc­tiv­ity — April 26th, 2010
• The Rules of Big Ideas — April 26th, 2010
• The inter­net is not an echo cham­ber — April 20th, 2010
• Intro­duc­ing the meso­fact — March 2nd, 2010
• Learn­ing styles: Reports of demise exag­ger­ated — Feb­ru­ary 19th, 2010
• Vac­cines, The Lancet retrac­tion and open sci­en­tific debate — Feb­ru­ary 9th, 2010
• Real body lan­guage — Feb­ru­ary 1st, 2010
• Sur­pris­ing gaps in your self-knowledge — Jan­u­ary 31st, 2010
• Atoms to bits — Jan­u­ary 29th, 2010
• The cold hard facts of freez­ing to death — Jan­u­ary 27th, 2010
• Telling a his­tory of the world with objects — Jan­u­ary 26th, 2010
• Demo­c­ra­tic, but dan­ger­ous too: how the web changed our world — Jan­u­ary 24th, 2010
• When the media is the dis­as­ter: Cov­er­ing Haiti — Jan­u­ary 22nd, 2010
• Knowl­edge is Out, Focus is In, and Peo­ple are Every­where — Jan­u­ary 21st, 2010
• The Brain at the Edge of Chaos — July 9th, 2009
• How Our Inter­nal Clock Ticks — March 14th, 2009
• On Teas­ing and Play­ful Provo­ca­tion — March 14th, 2009
• In the Ants’ Foot­steps — Feb­ru­ary 22nd, 2009
• How To Save New Brain Cells — Feb­ru­ary 22nd, 2009
• Just How Slow is Your Per­cep­tion? — Feb­ru­ary 22nd, 2009
• The Gospel Accord­ing the Dar­win — Feb­ru­ary 12th, 2009
• The Cost of Fear­ing Strangers — Jan­u­ary 14th, 2009
• Tech Law Crys­tal Ball — Jan­u­ary 6th, 2009
• Drug Com­pa­nies, Doc­tors and Cor­rup­tion — Jan­u­ary 6th, 2009
• Set in Our Ways: Why Change Is So Hard — Decem­ber 29th, 2008
• Skele­tal Remains — Decem­ber 21st, 2008
• New Tools Help Infor­ma­tion Over­load — Decem­ber 14th, 2008
• EEGs Show Brain Dif­fer­ences Between Poor and Rich Kids — Decem­ber 14th, 2008
• Google’s Gate­keep­ers — Decem­ber 14th, 2008
• Over­load! — Decem­ber 9th, 2008
• Social Net­works and Hap­pi­ness — Decem­ber 9th, 2008
• Obama In Your Heart — Decem­ber 9th, 2008
• Pro­cras­ti­nat­ing Again? — Decem­ber 9th, 2008
• Tech­nol­ogy Traps — Decem­ber 2nd, 2008
• The Ambas­sadors — Decem­ber 2nd, 2008
• Group Think — Decem­ber 2nd, 2008
• Becom­ing Screen Lit­er­ate — Decem­ber 2nd, 2008
• How To Run a Con — Novem­ber 29th, 2008
• Amoe­bae Fam­ily Val­ues — Novem­ber 29th, 2008
• The End of Jour­nal­ism — Novem­ber 29th, 2008
• The matur­ing human net­work — Octo­ber 28th, 2008
• How do you find what you want and how do you know it is true? — Octo­ber 28th, 2008
• Debunk­ing Psy­cho­log­i­cal Stages — Octo­ber 28th, 2008
• Never Say Die: Why We Can’t Imag­ine Death — Octo­ber 14th, 2008
• You’re Sick. Now What? Knowl­edge is Power. — Octo­ber 7th, 2008
• Ocean View — Octo­ber 7th, 2008
• Tak­ing the Earth’s Tem­per­a­ture — Sep­tem­ber 30th, 2008
• Why is laugh­ter almost non-existent in ancient Greek sculp­ture? — Sep­tem­ber 30th, 2008
• No Heaven on Earth — Sep­tem­ber 30th, 2008
• How To Suc­ceed In Busi­ness With­out Putting Peo­ple Last — August 7th, 2008
• Mem­o­ries, Emo­tion and the Nose — August 7th, 2008
• Mak­ing Deci­sions Tires Your Brain — July 29th, 2008
• Don’t Share — Build — July 29th, 2008
• How To Write With Style — July 29th, 2008
• The Weird Sci­ence of Stock Pho­tog­ra­phy — July 22nd, 2008
• Short­en­ing the Tail of Sci­en­tific Exper­tise? — July 22nd, 2008
• The Impor­tance of Being There — July 22nd, 2008
• Cul­tural Evo­lu­tion — July 15th, 2008
• The Next Renais­sance — July 15th, 2008
• Dawn of the Picasso Fish — July 15th, 2008
• The Sky Is Falling — July 15th, 2008
• The Crowd Within — July 15th, 2008
• 2b Or Not 2b? — July 8th, 2008
• Why Judy Can’t Add: Gen­der Inequal­ity and the Math Gap — July 8th, 2008
• Your Brain Lies To You — July 1st, 2008
• Why the Cloud Can­not Obscure the Sci­en­tific Method — July 1st, 2008
• Nobody’s A Critic — July 1st, 2008
• The Itch — July 1st, 2008
• Is Google Mak­ing Us Stu­pid — July 1st, 2008
• The Myth of Mul­ti­task­ing — July 1st, 2008
• Start Pages as Envi­ron­ments for Self-Organized Learn­ers — June 24th, 2008
• Q-Tools: An Approach for Dis­cov­ery and Knowl­edge Work — June 24th, 2008
• Franken­stein in the Uni­verse — June 24th, 2008
• Crit­i­cal The­ory: Ide­ol­ogy Cri­tique and the Myths of E-Learning — June 24th, 2008
• Voices Carry — June 21st, 2008
• Dar­win­ma­nia! — June 21st, 2008
• In Defense of Hulk — June 21st, 2008
• The Mean­ing of the But­ter­fly — June 12th, 2008
• How to Unleash Your Cre­ativ­ity — June 12th, 2008
• Rage Against the Machines — June 12th, 2008
• Dig­i­tal Foren­sics — June 12th, 2008
• Lim­its of Work­ing Mem­ory — June 5th, 2008
• Ten Facts About Learn­ing — June 5th, 2008
• Put a Lit­tle Sci­ence in Your Life — June 5th, 2008
• Per­ceived Moral Blame Can Change the Mem­ory of a Crime — May 29th, 2008
• Cur­ricu­lum Designed to Unite Art and Sci­ence — May 29th, 2008
• Blog­ging – It’s Good for You — May 27th, 2008
• Older Brain Really May Be a Wiser Brain — May 27th, 2008
• Recon­sid­er­a­tions: Richard Dawkins and His Self­ish Meme — May 27th, 2008
• The Cog­ni­tive Age — May 27th, 2008
• Mem­ory Train­ing Shown to Turn Up Brain­power — May 27th, 2008
• Can You Become a Crea­ture of New Habits? — May 27th, 2008
• Blogs, Pub­lic Intel­lec­tu­als and the Acad­emy — May 27th, 2008
• The New Pater­nal­ism — May 20th, 2008
• The Stu­pid­ity of Dig­nity — May 20th, 2008
• Dare To Be Your­self — May 20th, 2008
• Does your brain have a mind of its own? — May 20th, 2008
• Want to Remem­ber Every­thing You’ll Ever Learn? — May 1st, 2008
• Death of the Guide­book: Lost in a Cut­throat World — May 1st, 2008
• Noble Eagles, Nasty Pigeons, Biased Humans — May 1st, 2008
• Deci­sion Mak­ing: Is It All ‘Me, Me, Me’? — May 1st, 2008
• Online Libraries Are Not Libraries At All — April 25th, 2008
• Social Media Will Change Your Busi­ness — April 25th, 2008
• The Art of Doing Some­thing Well — April 25th, 2008
• Can Social Book­mark­ing Improve Web Search? — April 25th, 2008
• Why is Web 2.0 Fail­ing in Biol­ogy — April 25th, 2008
• Pur­pose­ful Net­work­ing — April 25th, 2008
• With a Few More Brains — April 25th, 2008
• The Art of Lit­er­a­ture and the Sci­ence of Lit­er­a­ture — April 25th, 2008
• The bat­tle for Wikipedia’s soul — April 25th, 2008
• A Con­ver­gence Of Civ­i­liza­tions — April 25th, 2008
• Cooked Books — April 25th, 2008
• 1,000 True Fans — March 10th, 2008
• Are Our Brains Wired for Math? — March 8th, 2008
• Scents and Sen­si­bil­ity — March 8th, 2008
• Net­flix Algo­rithms — March 8th, 2008
• Mag­i­cal Think­ing — March 8th, 2008
• The Wis­dom of the Chap­er­ones — March 1st, 2008
• Blog Writ­ing — Jan­u­ary 31st, 2008
• The Life Cycle of a Blog Post — Jan­u­ary 30th, 2008
• The Future of Ideas — Jan­u­ary 20th, 2008
• For­eign Pol­icy Goes Glam — Decem­ber 26th, 2007
• Let’s Talk About Love — Decem­ber 26th, 2007
• How a UNICEF Photo Makes the West’s Heart Ache — Decem­ber 26th, 2007
• David Byrne’s Sur­vival Strate­gies for Emerg­ing Artists and Megas­tars — Decem­ber 26th, 2007
• Twi­light of the Books — Decem­ber 26th, 2007
• Med­ical Myths — Decem­ber 26th, 2007
• The Polar­iza­tion of Extremes — Decem­ber 16th, 2007
• A Hunger For Books — Decem­ber 14th, 2007
• A DNA Dri­ven World — Decem­ber 10th, 2007
• Why don’t we love sci­ence fic­tion? — Decem­ber 10th, 2007
• Is Pho­tog­ra­phy Dead? — Decem­ber 10th, 2007
• The New Psy­chol­ogy of Lead­er­ship — Decem­ber 10th, 2007
• Google and Its Ene­mies — Decem­ber 9th, 2007
• The Phi­los­o­phy of Wine-Tasting — Decem­ber 4th, 2007
• The IQ Conun­drum — Decem­ber 4th, 2007
• The Secret to Rais­ing Smart Kids — Decem­ber 4th, 2007
• Free Rice — Decem­ber 4th, 2007
• Cristina Nehring on What’s Wrong With the Amer­i­can Essay — Decem­ber 4th, 2007
• Online Social Net­work­ing as Par­tic­i­pa­tory Sur­veil­lance — Decem­ber 3rd, 2007
• The Trans­for­ma­tion of Cul­ture — Decem­ber 3rd, 2007
• Grow­ing Up With Google: What It Means To Edu­ca­tion — Decem­ber 3rd, 2007
• Tighten Your Belt, Strengthen Your Mind — Decem­ber 3rd, 2007
• The CTO Chal­lenge: Build­ing Your Per­sonal Learn­ing Net­work — Novem­ber 26th, 2007
• Haman’s Inves­ti­ga­tor Ques­tions — Novem­ber 25th, 2007
• Nomads At Last — Novem­ber 25th, 2007
• Blog­ging Dar­win — Novem­ber 25th, 2007
• How the Truth Gets Framed for the Cam­era — Novem­ber 25th, 2007
• Are Aliens Among Us? — Novem­ber 25th, 2007
• Shar­ing, Pri­vacy and Trust in Our Net­worked World — Novem­ber 19th, 2007
• What is Brows­ing – really? — Novem­ber 19th, 2007
• Trust in Dig­i­tal Repos­i­to­ries — Novem­ber 19th, 2007
• Not Just a Pan­tomime — Novem­ber 19th, 2007
• Remem­ber This — Novem­ber 19th, 2007
• When Edu­ca­tional Resources Are Open — Novem­ber 2nd, 2007
• Apolo­gies All Around — Novem­ber 2nd, 2007
• Cin­ema Fic­tion vs. Physics Real­ity — Novem­ber 2nd, 2007
• Teach­ing, Learn­ing and Cre­at­ing Iconic Moments — Novem­ber 2nd, 2007
• KM: still a long road ahead — Novem­ber 2nd, 2007
• Social Decision-Making: Insights from Game The­ory and Neu­ro­science — Octo­ber 31st, 2007
• Intro­duc­ing the Book — Feb­ru­ary 10th, 2007
• The Audio­cast Diaries — Feb­ru­ary 10th, 2007
• The Chang­ing Face of Work­place Learn­ing — Feb­ru­ary 10th, 2007
• Being an Unper­son — Feb­ru­ary 10th, 2007
• You don’t have to read a book to talk wisely about it — Feb­ru­ary 10th, 2007
• Shrinkwrap Licenses — Feb­ru­ary 4th, 2007
• Al Gore’s Foot Sol­diers — Feb­ru­ary 3rd, 2007
• Learn­ing with Audio: Lessons from Tele­vi­sion — Monk, House, MD, and NCIS — Feb­ru­ary 3rd, 2007
• Unhappy Meals — Jan­u­ary 29th, 2007
• Intel­li­gence in the Class­room — Jan­u­ary 28th, 2007
• The Mys­tery of Con­scious­ness — Jan­u­ary 27th, 2007
• A Librarian’s Lament: Books Are a Hard Sell — Jan­u­ary 26th, 2007
• The Neu­rol­ogy of Self Aware­ness — Jan­u­ary 12th, 2007
• Why a Quick Look Can Be Bet­ter than a Deep Study — Jan­u­ary 12th, 2007
• Why Do Today What You Can Put Off Till Tomor­row — Jan­u­ary 12th, 2007
• Art and Sci­ence — Jan­u­ary 12th, 2007
• Power Tex­ting Tips — Decem­ber 8th, 2006
• Zur­net NYC — Novem­ber 27th, 2006
• The Emer­gence of Citizen’s Media — Octo­ber 30th, 2006
• The Art of Com­plex Prob­lem Solv­ing — Octo­ber 20th, 2006
• Four Modes of Seek­ing Infor­ma­tion — Octo­ber 16th, 2006
• Beyond Knowl­edge and Com­pe­tence — Octo­ber 14th, 2006
• Sur­vey of Cana­dian Atti­tudes toward Learn­ing — Octo­ber 13th, 2006
• The Minia­ture Earth — Octo­ber 8th, 2006
• Don’t flame me, bro’ — May 23rd, 2006
• Inter­view with Eti­enne Wenger — March 6th, 2006

• Infor­ma­tion Abundance
• Using Web-Based Tools to Stay Current
• Dig­i­tal Lit­era­cies: Read­ing Signs Along The Way
• 140 Char­ac­ters Or Less
• Alter­nate His­tory and Time Travel

• Am I Part of the E-Learning Industry?
• Women and the Telephone
• The Inter­net Explorer 6 Dilemma
• Pro­rogue, Activism and the Power of Per­sonal Networks
• Wear­able Textbooks