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 #9: Add and Subtract
It was my great privilege late last week to speak with Stephen Downes, a long-time researcher with the National Research Council Canada’s Digital Technologies Research Centre in Ottawa! Stephen is a substantive thinker and prolific writer on nearly any or all aspects of e-learning one can conceive of! He is among the preeminent philosophers of…
Episode #60: Born Into This
Matt’s Notes Folks… and folkers… It’s my distinct pleasure to caw up some media hereabouts… to the effect of allaying the malicious and seditious tendencies of being entrenched in traditions vis-à-vis our educational approaches! And so we veer all around, and it’s a cracking good chat! So click below! If this audio could talk, the…
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…
Conversation #5: Exploring Innovation in E-Learning Across Canada
Folks, I am absolutely stoked to share our latest EnT conversation! Today I had the supreme privilege of speaking with Dr. Nicole Johnson, Executive Director at Canadian Digital Learning Research Association (CDLRA)! Please see the clip and/or listen to the audio below! The future’s so bright, and we’ve forgotten to wear shades! #ednontech Matt’s Notes…
Further Comments for TRU Students
Welcome, students in Dr. Pamela Gurney’s spring courses in Education at Thompson Rivers University… along with anyone else who may be reading this! We are honored and grateful that you’ve chosen to spend some time with our podcast! We sincerely hope you’ve found these chats interesting, and that some of the resources we’ve shared in…
Episode #59: Road to Ruin
Matt’s Notes Hey everyone! And welcome to our episode on too much tech in education! I can (fairly) say that I’ve seldom found a topic so weirdly mirthful as this… so kudos to Doug for choosing it… and thanks to you for checking it out! 59-59… (is not) the Number of the Beast! #ednontech (Emails…