Monthly Archives: April 2006

Observations from Ottawa

After three days of rain and cold, the weather in Ottawa turned beautiful last Thursday.

chateau parl

On my last morning there, I walked from my hotel, the magnificent Chateau Laurier, across the bridge over the Ottawa River to Quebec. The view of Parliament from the Quebec side is stunning.

Travel is such a Continue reading

Netcentric

One of my visualizations for the year (I don’t do resolutions anymore) was to live more on the net and less on the desktop. I like being untethered. Google Calendar brings me one step closer.
netcentric

One of the few things my desktop provides that I didn’t get with my laptop was a large monitor. Atop the Continue reading

Five stars!

sfsu

Sometimes I mix it up with academics. Tuesday night, at the invitatin of Kim Foreman, professor of instructional technology at SFSU, I joined Curt Bonk (Indiana) and Bob Reiser (Florida State) for a presentation to grad students at San Francisco State.

Kim amazes me. How can someone who works so Continue reading

Out of (my) discipline

zdnet logoKnowledge is born at the intersection of different fields. John Seely Brown and John Hagel encourage learning from the abrasion that occurs when differing viewpoints rub up against one another, calling it productive friction. I try to keep an eye on what’s happening in areas outside my expertise, both Continue reading