Multilitteratus Incognitus

XKCD 1403 It's hard to believe, but five years have passed since the successful defense of my dissertation.

When I first started teaching graduate courses back in 2012 (wow...time flies), my hallmark course was titled The Design and Instruction of Online Courses.

It's been about five years since I defended my dissertation (oh my!

High School Hallway by Matt Dempsey CC BY-SA "You don't know what you're consuming!

I didn't realize it, but here is my 1,000th post on this blog 🙃.

When it comes to reading trade magazines, I tend to have an on-again, off-again relationship.

Old Timey School House (Lego version) I came across a post on LinkedIn the other daaaay (read this in a Letterkenny cadence, if you know what that is 😆).

Last fall, I got to design and teach a course that I've been wanting to teach for a very long time: Language Learning and Technology (or, in other words, Computer-Assisted Language Learning - if you are in the language education field).

It's the winter break, and now that I have some actual downtime, I decided to do some Microsoft training.

Academic AI-Slop (ChatGPT Produced) Happy end of the semester, and almost the end of the calendar year!

A great number of years ago, I was part of an edtech team tasked with evaluating learning management systems to move to after WebCT was essentially EoL'd by Blackboard.

This semester, I am helping co-facilitate a course somewhere new.

A few weeks ago, I saw this posted on a friend's social media feed, and the response was also repeating the "oh wow!

Well, it's been a hot minute since I last jotted down some thoughts.

ChatGPT Patch of the Wise Owl Recently, I've been playing around with image generation in ChatGPT, not so much to create output that I plan on using seriously for something (although some output do end up on this blog as post images), but more to see how…

Happy Friday, to all!

A bit of a kerfulle happened a few weeks ago, and it's just indicative of how the rest of life is going what I've had this post in draft form for almost a month while I've plugged away at it...

I came across Sarah's post on blogging questions (which I think was something started on the Reclaim Discord, so I thought I'd jump in.

Alright...alright... bad pun 😅 But to be fair, CALL (computer-assisted language learning) does lend itself to some bad puns...

New Year, New Projects!

With the US elections now settled, and a second Trump term being a reality, I guess many (most?)

All right!

Part VI of my ponderings on all the things and wayfinding in academia.

Miseristhenes the Socialmediaite This is part V of my all the things(!!!)

This is part IV of my all the things(!!!)