Erik Duval Snow. Stuck in the office. Will try to make way home now. Bit hungry ;-) Got lots of work done though: always a silver lining… 13 hours ago from Twitter - Comment - Like

Erik Duval nice to see us appear three times in http://chi2012.acm.org/program... ;-) #chi2012 14 hours ago from Twitter - Comment - Like

Erik Duval RT @BenjaminduPont: I love the people who say 2/1/12 is a once in a life time date. Every day is a once in a life time day. That is actually how time works. Thursday from Twitter - Comment - Like

I was given Jimmy Buffet’s “A Pirate Looks at Fifty” book and had a chance to read it, and many others, over the holidays.  Most would know Jimmy Buffet the song writer/performer but this was more about the man and his journey in life up to his fifti...

One of the things I have learned this year is how much I value silence.  Actually that’s not quite true, what I’ve learned the value of is the ability to control the sound that surrounds me.  I often wants lots of it in the form of things like m...

Erik and I have been working on trying to get more study and benefit from failure and we have both been struck by how hard this has been to do.  Not failing, I’m very good that, but rather to foster a culture wherein there is an implicit understandin...

Today and tomorrow, I am at a STELLAR event, where about 40 of us try to make progress on the development of ‘Grand Challenge Problems’ for Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL)… Personally, I am (was?) rather interested in this notion, bec...

I’ve been thinking a bit about how some of our work on Learning Analytics compares with what folks in the Educational Data Mining community are doing. Might be interesting for some of you… In my view, Learning Analytics is about collecting tra...

There is a bit of a debate going on about ‘frictionless sharing’ – see (Martin Weller and Brian Kelly). I’m not sure I understand the issue… In my view, frictionless sharing is a Good Thing, because it means sharing without e...