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100 Year EdTech Project

100 Year EdTech Project

There was an inspirational Zoom session today before the community scenarios' submission deadline for next year's 100 Year EdTech Project. Some of the community submissions will be added to last year's original video prompts created by Joe Lambert, founder of StoryCenter.org: Future Scenarios for

1895 photo of the square in front of the Inverness, Scotland train station filled with horse drawn coaches.

Imagining Inverness Scotland

Station Square would have looked very much like this when my pre-teen grandfather traveled alone to the New Mexico Territories in the United States to be indentured to his uncle McTavish for seven years. I often wonder how much history he was aware of growing up in Inverness: his family

Loose Carrick knot joining a silver and a green rope together with a light gray background.

Networked Narratives: Collaborative Storytelling

I’ve been talking with Maren Deepwell about digital technologies, identifying the subjects I’m most passionate about, and sharing my experiences as a lifelong learner. Read her thoughts on our collaboration and subscribe to her newsletter! I want to increase my participation in third spaces and grow my network

A map of museums in the greater Los Angeles area.

Museums in the Greater Los Angeles Area

I took an introduction to Geographic Information Systems class at my local community college. We learned to use ESRI's ArcGIS software, although the professor used the free and open source QGIS software when working with iOS machines. When we got to the data visualization part of the course,

Postcard with image of a campsite at night and "Penguin packed his bags, "Had a great time!", waddled home

Reflecting on digital storytelling: past, present, and future at DS106 Radio Summer Camp

I loved Reclaim Hosting's Reclaim Rewind 2024 conversations on Friday December 6th! "Come on people, blog or die!" Reclaim Hosting founder & EduPunk Jim Groom When the Reclaim gang started reflecting on their DS106Radio Summer Camp experiences, I posted in the chat "Introducing digital storytelling

Does anyone actually want AI-generated podcasts?

Does anyone actually want AI-generated podcasts?

There has been much discussion about Google's NotebookLM in the Education and Learning Technology groups I am in, and the rest of my personal learning network as well, especially around the new feature of "AI" generated podcasts. I excerpted my title from a recent post and

Text on a blue background. Facebook: its a love/hate relationship

Why I try to stay away from Facebook.

A friend posted a beautiful picture of the pool in the Berkeley City Club, formerly the Berkeley Women’s City Club, designed by Julia Morgan in 1929. Years ago, I took a wonderful class there offered by the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. It was actually two classes on Greek Culture

Reflection of tree branch in the foreground and mountain peaks with the alpenglow of sunrise on a Siera Nevada creek.

What a week!

I started by meeting with my new coach Maren Deepwell. I met Maren in the Association for Learning Technology where she was CEO for a decade, and now, she has joined Reclaim Hosting, my domains and hosting provider. Reclaim was started by Jim Groom and Tim Owens based on their

Installing Hypothesis on Ghost

Installing Hypothesis on Ghost

After posting "Installing Disqus on Ghost", I decided to try adding Hypothesis to every post so people can have an option for commenting platforms. It wasn't hard to do, and now every post automatically has a Hypothesis sidebar panel. On my computer screen it doesn'

One Future of Learning

One Future of Learning

In my work with StoryCenter I was marginally involved in Arizona State University's 100 Year EdTech Project which gathered a group of educators, instructional designers, technologists and independent researchers to "imagine the next 50 years of education." The first Design Summit was held in February 2024

Installing Disqus on Ghost

Installing Disqus on Ghost

I'm aware that not everyone likes Disqus. I've been using it for years and appreciate that all my comments are collected in one place. It was acquired a few years ago and no doubt is worse than before, but until I can figure out how else

An illustration of a tent with a campfire and trees.

My First Summer Camp

Join me in this week's EdTech extravaganza on the radio! As featured on Reclaim TV! I've created two sessions and am looking forward to having some end of summer fun. Take your radio along wherever you go and stream this cornucopia of conversations and music. Stories

Hello World!

June 7, 2024

Welcome to "Talking with machines", a new Ghost site by Mark Corbett Wilson. I'll be musing about communication, lifelong learning, critical digital humanities, social science, and computing. And my experiences with machines.