Winter Solstice 2020

The shortest day of the year. I love the winter, the dark and cold don’t generally get to me the way they get to some; however, the time between the Winter Solstice and New Year’s Day tend to trigger a lot of emotion and deep reflection—a tension between wanting to be alone to hibernate and …

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Quarantine Poetry #1

The full moon is low in the sky like it doesn't have the energy to rise, So many demands and so much pressure when we all slow down to look, at the small things like the moon showing off in a sky full of stars, veils of pollution stripped away. This quarantine, the stay at …

Christmas 2019- Reflections

Christmas 2019 I didn’t open a present on Christmas day, and it was the best of Christmases. Here at the tail end of 2019, almost three years after a resolution to live more truly in alignment with myself, this Christmas was one of the first times in more years than I can count that I …

Interrogating Community Based Learning A #DigPed post

I am in the Community Based Digital Pedagogy track at the 2019 summer Digital Pedagogy Lab (@digpedlab)  It has been a good session, if one that often made me feel out of my comfort zone, intentionally.  I have always known that the people are what make the DPL something special, and I have not been …

Theory vs. Practice (Part 1 of a Quest)

If Pedagogy (or andragogy or huetgogy) are teaching practices driven by beliefs about learning, or a framework that defines what teaching (or learning) practices are employed, why aren’t we talking as much about learning theory as we are about practices? This morning I was reminded of visits I used to have with my favorite publisher’s …

Bubble Wrap: Popping the Bubble

Two years ago my life became challenging (for lack of a better word)—both personally and professionally. At first, I withdrew because I felt like I had to, and then I withdrew for my own safety, and then I stayed on the sidelines for my own mental health. The details aren’t necessary as they aren’t the …

Convergence: Open Pedagogy and Complexity

I have been thinking a lot about #Openpedagogy lately, unsurprisingly, given the blogs, videos, conferences and twitter conversations that have been going on. In advance of the Year of Open hangout @Bali_Maha is hosting on Monday, April 24, I thought I would wade into the conversation as my own thoughts have been evolving.  In January, …

Reflections on Generosity of Spirit: Barriers to working in the open

So in December I used Bronwyn Hegarty’s Attributes of Open Pedagogy, along with several other documents to develop a page to use in conversation with faculty about open pedagogy. Last week, I had the opportunity to share it with a small group, and it worked really well in terms of focusing the discussion and talking …

Working in the Open- Part 1 of a Series

This is a post that has been meaning to be written for years. It is the first in a series, I hope, chronicling the development and implementation of an #Open Introduction to Literature Course. The thinking behind this series has been rolling around in my brain for a while, and I hope to pull it …

Thinking in the Open

Last week, when I wrote Thinking about Open, I was reeling from a number of discussion with colleagues where I felt like I was constantly bumping and nudging people while meeting them where they were. This was not a moment of epiphany, rather the tension around open vs.free, materials vs. strategies is one that has …