The Conference Buddy Experience at DML
At the 2015 DML Conference I got, for the second time (first was in April at et4online), to join in a Conference Buddy Google Hangout session with Maha Bali. I almost hesitate to have to say who Maha...
View ArticleWatching your baby grow up – reflections on Virtually Connecting...
Back in April, my friend Maha and I decided to try out a new way of connecting. The idea came to us out of a desire to share the physical experiences of being onsite at a conference with each other....
View ArticleMy First Stint as a VConnecting Buddy
On Thursday I had my first seat in the control room as a Virtual Buddy for a now expanding project (http://virtuallyconnecting.org/) started by Maha Bali and Rebecca Hogue. I had been a participant in...
View ArticleWhy I Woke Up at 5 AM (and stayed up til 4AM) for @VConnecting: The...
All it takes is alarm clocks and coffee. No, alarm clocks, coffee, and a relatively small group of interesting, geographically dispersed people. And some google hangouts. And now a Slack with snarky...
View ArticleRefining the Virtually Connecting Site
The small project started by Maha Bali and Rebecca Hogue is growing as more people get involved with bridging educational conferences with people who cannot attend in person. We have an active Slack...
View Article@vconnecting and connecting at ALT-C
Over the last couple of days I’ve been onsite at the ALT-C conference in Manchester UK. This is a rather large conference (over 500 participants), mostly educational technologists in the UK. As with...
View ArticleThe agency of space and devices
This is perhaps one of what I hope to be many reflections on my experiences at the #dlrn15 conference – actually, this is more of a reflection on Virtually Connecting in general – in part on how it has...
View ArticleHanging Out, VConnecting at EDUCAUSE 2015
EDUCAUSE. The Big One. I’ve not been to the Big EDUCAUSE since 2004, in Denver. Back then I had more hair, less weight, a clunkier laptop, a blog only 1 year old. They were heady times. My visual...
View ArticleIn Perth Again, Virtually: ASCILITE 2015
The last time I was physically present in Perth, Australia, was an angsty period in my life. It was the one and only time that I had permed my hair (see pic below). Today, I encountered Perth again —...
View ArticleLiterally [Ear] Buddies: Virtually Connecting at #OER16
Originally published at virtuallyconnecting – CogDogBlog (see it there) Today Virtually Connecting hosted it’s one session at the OER16 Conference in Edinburgh. We typically would [...]
View ArticleOn Hybridity and Disappearing Endpoints
Originally published at virtuallyconnecting – CogDogBlog (see it there) On Wednesday I was a virtual digital participant (nod to Laura Gogia) in an OLC Innovate [...]
View ArticleVirtually Connecting Goes to HERDSA 2016
Note: I had fun writing this post with Wendy Taleo, who hosted the Virtually Connecting session. A ping from Wendy Taleo drew me out of my teaching-grading cave to the Higher Education Research and...
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