Thank you to you Barry just gave you a shoutout! He said to thank you for your work on Brightspace Community! ? /48W5xgxS8S I’m actually speechless about this still (almost two months later!) – it’s honoring and humbling to have others say such nice things about me. I did however have my twitter feed blow up for a couple hours when I got mentioned by my good friend Barry. I didn’t go to Brightspace Fusion/User Conference this year because a) I hate Orlando, and b) the hotel was not within public transportation/walking distance of anything nearby. I would recommend not using Caveat Emptor learning design, if it exists. It strikes me as neat, but prone to my faulty brain labelling it Caveat Emptor learning design, which has a whole separate implication. I didn’t inquire further, but I did some looking further into it. While in training this week, Carpe Diem learning design was mentioned. How can we ensure that people don’t misunderstand what the badge means and that it’s a peer issued badge? Lots and lots of stuff to unpack there. I’m interested in ways that we can empower students to grant badges to other students, especially when those badges might contain institutional imagery. I don’t know that we’re much further, but we are going to try some things over the next year and see how they work. I’ve been working off and on over the summer with our student centre trying to think of ways badging could work as a co-curricular record for students.
The third has to do with privacy settings, which we all should be interested in. The second has to do with blocking auto-updates. The first outlines the new features of the OS.
However, here’s a series of Windows 10 related links that will be of benefit to those who wish to better understand what this upgrade means. The process was smooth for a laptop that’s close to 6 years old and has 4 gig RAM and 320 gig hard drive.
I updated my laptop to Windows 10 – I primarily use the laptop for checking e-mail, writing more than a tweet, constructing a drum beat or using Word 2007.
A collection of links, notes, and things I’ve seen in the last little while that are too long for a tweet but too short for a full blog post unto themselves…įirst, and most importantly to me, the soundtrack to this update the brilliant 13th Floor Elevators (and particularly, Roky Erikson’s great solo version of Two Headed Dog):