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Are you the Keymaster?

Posted in Online Community, Technology, teaching, tagged , , , , on October 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »

In the 1984 movie, Ghostbusters, Rick Moranis’ character, the Gatekeeper, was looking for the Keymaster. Cataclysmic events would occur once the Gatekeeper and Keymaster met and preventing such a catastrophe was the goal of the Ghostbusters.  There are times when our online world feels a little like that.  Cataclysmic, catastrophic!
Over the course of my previous online [...]

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A Dark and Stormy Night

Posted in teaching, tagged , , on October 12, 2009 | 6 Comments »

It was a dark and stormy night or so the transcripts say,
The nimble fingers of the students transformed the course all day,
Collaboration took place in wikis and chats the most,
But rising from the General Forum came an ALL CAPS post.
It was no admin nor help desk participants knew well,
No instructional designer in anger sent out [...]

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Things that go bump in the night…

Posted in teaching, tagged , on October 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

For some the month of October conjures up images of Fall Festivals, autumn leaves, and candy corn. For others, memories of Edgar Allan Poe’s  The Raven or The Tell-Tale Heart come to mind.
The Raven
Edgar Allan Poe
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
While [...]

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