One day and one month ago I had the immense privilege of conversing with San Diego, California writer Jim Ruland… AKA… LA Times Bestselling Author, journalist, and a writer across multiple formats, platforms, and genres! His latest book Make it Stop is a work of dystopian wildness which interrogates American healthcare… and is required (summer)…
Category: Ed non-Tech Conversations
Conversation #15: Truthfully Truthfully
Colleagues, friends, and passerby… The level of this here humble (meek!) podcasting endeavour has just gone up! Significantly! The reason for this is, be assured, this absolutely first-rate convo between myself and Dr. Moeketsi Letseka, UNESCO Chair on Open Distance Learning (ODL), and Professor of Philosophy of Education and African Philosophy at the University of…
Conversation #14: The Places You’ll Go!
Earlier this week, Doug and I had the chance to speak with Dr. Norm Vaughan, Professor with the Education and Schooling Faculty at Mount Royal University in Calgary. Norm has had an rich and varied career across a wide range of settings, contexts, and locations! He is the author of numerous articles, presentations, books, and…
Conversation #13: Learn to Fly
Everyone, I am utterly pleased to share our recent EnT convo with Dr. Rob Power, Assistant Professor of Education at Cape Breton University! Besides being an accomplished and prolific researcher, teacher, and practitioner in many diverse areas of the educational endeavor writ large… Rob and I also go back many years professionally… and this is…
Conversation #12:’Tain’t What You Do
Folks, I was expecting to enjoy my chat with Dr. Jon Dron, Associate Dean, Learning and Assessment in the Faculty of Science and Technology at Athabasca University… I was not expecting to have as much fun as I did! While we were talking about his latest book How Education Works, we ended up going many…
Conversation #11: There is a Light That Never Goes Out
Hey, y’all! And howdy! And salutations… In a month that’s had far more high-profile guests than I ever could have hoped to speak to… they don’t come much more high-profile, for my literary and academic dollar, than AJ Hartley, award winning and bestselling writer of more than twenty-five mystery/thriller, fantasy, historical fiction, and young adult…
Conversation #10: I Hate Music
Tape’s rolling… er… Friends, pals, colleagues, university Education students and/or profs and/or any single individual checking this out from any vantage point whatsoever… Bob Mehr is, among many (many!) things, a 2 x Grammy Award winning writer, producer, and NYT bestselling author of one of the most definitive rock bios ever written about any band……
Conversation #8: We’re a Happy Family
Welcome, friends and colleagues! I am absolutely thrilled to share our EnT conversation with Dr. Laura L. Flanagan, Esq. PhD! Laura is, among many things, a writer, visual artist, lawyer, entrepreneur, and lifelong resident of New York City! Her forthcoming book about cooking is called Hardcore Vegetarian: Welcome to the Vegedome!, and it is available…
Conversation #7: Exploring Digital Pasts, the Present, & Futures
In this conversation, Doug and I had the absolute privilege of chatting with Dr. Tony Bates of the Open University (UK), University of British Columbia, Contact North, his own consulting firm, and many other affiliations both formal and informal too numerous to list here! Tony is among a handful of researchers who have, over more…
Conversation #6: Steal it All
It’s the latest in our ongoing series of chats with serious practitioners in various areas of endeavor! A couple of days ago, I got to have a convo with Chuck Bowie, a talented, prolific author of suspense novels here in Atlantic Canada… and increasingly on the national scene, as well! It was absolutely rad speaking…