Author: Todd Conaway

This week was the OpenEd Conference in Utah. Last year I remember watching Gardner Campbell’s keynote and thinking “Oh man, another “Bag of Gold story” and that it was another idea that would take me a long time to figure

Mirrors are pretty powerful. Sometimes they show us what we don’t want to see and other times they might reward us for perfectly reflecting the person we believe ourselves to be. We know the reflection is unbiased, and unable, to

It was great to be in the environment. By that I mean there were ideas wandering around and people who had little to do other than wonder about them. I was able to spark up many conversations before sessions, after

What is being done here could be what is happening in your courses. Work could be shared and reflected on in a public place. You know, like the internet. It could look more like you and less like Blackboard or

Next week I am in Anaheim at the Educause Conference. I get to see Sir Ken Robinson and Jane Mcgonigal as keynotes! Sir Ken’s TED talk on creativity still ranks as one of my favorite. I am excited! Educause is

Yesterday I spoke with Mary Bart from Faculty Focus and asked her for some “vendor swag” for our 9x9x25 Challenge. I asked because our Challenge is short a week or two of weekly rewards. After I explained the Challenge to

Any one experience is made up of many smaller experiences. For example, jumping into cold water is not just the experience of “wet.” It is made of many sensations from cold, to wet, to weightlessness, to moving vertically down and