Reading Time: 2 minutesMy daughter walked into Hamley’s on Regent street while we were in London and was looking for a train I had promised her. Train wasn’t there. It was just a memory from my own childhood when I visited Hamley’s with my parents. So I looked for a small cheap toy to distract her with, and found two things that were small and became...

Reading Time: 6 minutesI was in Manchester around 48 hours. But boy, were they packed. I’ve been struggling to write about this emotional, exhilarating experience that fits right into the middle of a line between professional & social. On the plane while my daughter napped, I wrote a dissertation-length dear diary version of this post that no...

Reading Time: 5 minutesWe all know some people talk too fast (or slow) but is it possible to listen too slowly? When I was an undergrad, I had the privilege of participating in a P&G lT seminar where students from all over Europe Middle East and Africa. It was a few days long, a simulation of what working at P&G’s IT department was like with...

Reading Time: 3 minutesSome days you find yourself in multiple conversations and you find a common thread between them that you feel compelled to link, to unpack…and for me, to blog. Today was one such day and it was a convo on #techquity on connectedlearning.tv hangout today where we talked about the same use of tech could be seen both as equitable...

Reading Time: 4 minutesScholarly sweet spots. Nice alliteration, yeah? I have been thinking I found a couple of scholarly sweet spots lately… Identity sweetspot For example… I have been struggling with my role as faculty developer as I evolved as a teacher and researcher, so when I found myself increasingly liking Lee Skallerup Bessette’s work, I...

Reading Time: 6 minutesIf you’ve been following, Rebecca and I started a thing called et4buddy at et4online where she brought me virtually into the conference several times for socialization. We invited others virtually. We had fun. We got feedback from others and like many who participated and watched, we think it’s a great idea so we are now www.virtuallyconnecting.org...