Author Archives: Jim

About Jim

Faculty Developer at Aurora College's Centre for Teaching and Learning

DigiWriMo Intentions

Dictated Oct 23 So for digital writing month, I plan to write something every day. I will do so by dictating to my iPhone in bits and pieces and stolen moments, between classes, during lunch breaks, even at night in … Continue reading

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DS106 time-warp

Dad-blasted DS106 #4life, it’s a lifetime addiction.  That’s what it is.  Kept me from vegging out with Netflix on this Canada Day evening.  Deceptive too.  Just record a Dutch fairy tale for the Burgeron Trailer. I’ve been looking at the … Continue reading

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Why, Hardly Any At All Dear

Just to prove you don’t need academic credentials nor superior intelligence to engage in Rhizo15, I submit the following headlines from the notorious tabloid “Rhizo Enquirer” Doing Rhizomatic Learning the Right Way How Rhizomatic Learning Isn’t as Bad as You … Continue reading

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Who You Callin’ Invasive?

Two competing thoughts are vying for my attention as I belatedly address Week Five’s question about invasive species. Dave asks if, in promoting rhizomatic learning, we are trading one authority structure for another. If we are in-grown. If we are … Continue reading

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Meandering

I’m always humbled when I think about the tremendous trust students show in enrolling in our adult education programs.  They place way more confidence in me than I have in my ability to fulfill that trust. When Dave Cormier asks, … Continue reading

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On Being a Learner

What’s the difference between taking a course and being a learner? We often assume that everyone who attends school, at least an adult who chooses to do so willingly, goes there to learn. I’d like to point out that some … Continue reading

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Loosely Tied

The Connected Courses facilitators list reads like a Who’s Who of my favourite rabid connectivists.  How could I not dip in? Ever since PLENK2010 I’ve been hooked by this interaction with clever educators.  It changed the way I approach my … Continue reading

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Apologetic Canadian Zombie

Well friends, here’s a zombie who has happily resolved his identity crisis. I have come to terms with what I am. I am a zombie. I bite and devour people. Sorry about that, but that’s the way it is. I … Continue reading

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Peaceful River Bank

  Wait.  I no longer have a human breast in which anything can spring.  I am a Zombie. I “lost” at Twitter versus Zombies.  OK, in the spirit of the game, I did not really lose; I changed.  But I … Continue reading

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Conflicted Zombie

I am a troubled zombie.  Not supposed to have any thought, only cravings for human flesh, particularly brains.  Troubling something buried deep within me, is the question, Why does scorn, violence, and compulsion come so easily?   How can I be … Continue reading

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