Hello #POD25 reception! @thomasjtobin.bsky.social @jamesmlang.bsky.social @thetattooedprof.bsky.social @bonni208.bsky.social

Honored to speak at the University System of Georgia eCampus conference today. We talked about teaching presence in a time of isolation: turning the wheel toward connection. Also: the cheese puns were legendary. 🧀💛 teachinginhighered.com/uga25

Just wrapped another #PKMastery reflection—this time on systems thinking and Senge’s The Fifth Discipline. No frogs were harmed 🐸, but a few mental models were definitely stretched. #PKM teachinginhighered.com/2025/11/09/1...

This episode of the #ThinkUDL podcast from @lilliannave.bsky.social about conversational quizzes is spectacular. Full of practical, values-based approaches. Highly recommend. #UDL overcast.fm/+AAP02qreJa4

New post inspired by Harold Jarche’s #PKMastery workshop—on why narrating our work matters, even when it feels messy, vulnerable or unfinished. Reflections on bookmarks, journals, and keeping a digital “starfish folder” for encouragement. teachinginhighered.com/2025/11/09/1...

We don’t just need experts — we need fellow seekers. Curiosity grows when we learn alongside others, experiment in public, and stay willing to not-know together. New post on #PKM, “deliberate amateurs,” Ig Nobels & more: teachinginhighered.com/2025/11/09/1...#PKM #PKMastery

Network Weaving as an Antidote to Imposter Syndrome. Turns out, the best cure for “I don’t belong here” might be remembering who we’re connected to +helping others close their triangles, too. Written from an airport, powered by curiosity. teachinginhighered.com/2025/11/08/n... #PKMastery #PKM

I'm excited to watch a recent @screencastsonline.bsky.social tutorial from @mikeschmitz.bsky.social on MindNode. However, given how behind I am from a trip I just got back from, I have to save it as a treat for myself, once fewer inboxes are on overflow.

On Ep 592: Metaphors, Free Speech, and How We Learn with Barbara Oakley. We talk why free speech matters in every discipline. Barbara also shares practical tools for teaching with metaphors + create classrooms that invite disagreement and are intellectually challenging. teachinginhighered.com/592

An important distinction and why having a #PKMastery system is so vital. Also, goals only help if you know where you want to go, but #pkm can spark new ideas and pathways to deeper learning.

If you missed Teaching in Higher Ed 591, Rethinking Student Attendance Policies w/ Simon Cullen + Danny Oppenheimer, I encourage you to check it out. Their research shows when students choose attendance and assessment paths, they engage more deeply. Listen: teachinginhighered.com/591 #HigherEd

I’m leading a pre-conference workshop at #POD25 in San Diego: Go Somewhere: AI, Ethics, and Emergent Thinking Through Play 🗓️ Nov 19, 2–5 PM PT We’ll use the Go Somewhere card game to explore AI in #HigherEd through curiosity + play. Join us?

I'm starting a new video series for Teaching in Learning: Between the Lines: Books That Shape Teaching and Learning This video is 3 teaching moves fr One Classroom at a Time: How Better Teaching Can Make College More Equitable (Gooblar) youtu.be/qq_PZoPMPK8 #HigherEd #HigherEducation #Teaching

Can you keep a secret? I reflect on Harold Jarche's #PKMastery workshop topic: Understanding Media Specifically, I attempt to explain McLuhan's Media Tetrad in my own words and come up with an example from what we will be getting our son for Christmas. 😇 teachinginhighered.com/2025/10/21/7...

Why isn't RSS more popular than it is? #PKMastery teachinginhighered.com/2025/10/17/6...

Enjoyed diving into Harold Jarche's #PKmastery workshop this morning. I did some more private reflecting, in addition to this public post about the process of mapping my network and exploring the resources provided. #LifeLongLearning #PKM teachinginhighered.com/2025/10/06/1...

Do you use @omnifocus.omnigroup.com? If so, the new planned date feature is opening up all sorts of possibilities... Check out @learnomnifocus.bsky.social's quick tip to learn more. learnomnifocus.com/tutorial/unl...

As I continue to develop my @obsidian.md knowledge, I'm excited to dive into this @screencastsonline.bsky.social tutorial fr @mikeschmitz.bsky.social about the Bases core plugin. As the description mentions, this seems like such a "game-changing feature." www.screencastsonline.com/tutorials/pr...

This quote has stayed with me ever since reading The Art of Gathering.

I’ve been thinking a lot about feedback, lately. Nice to have Readwise resurface this quote for me this morning.

Delighted to be getting reacquainted with @screencastsonline.bsky.social and see a full tutorial on my beloved media tracking app: Sequel 🔥❤️

Reading Donna Hicks’ work on dignity these past couple of years has been transformative.

I wrote up my Top Ten Tools for Learning list (a bit late, but still wanted to share). What's a tool you're getting a lot of use of in your own learning? teachinginhighered.com/2025/08/30/2...

"I'm picking up what you're putting down." Reply from one of my colleagues about something I had sent her. I hadn't heard this expression in a long, long time and am now seeking out the next conversation or email I might have/write in which it would be appropriate to reply with that. 😂

I get the strangest spam email for potential guests for the podcast. It’s clear they’re not targeting a show about teaching and it is just mass email to any podcasters out there. I do get a good chuckle out of imagining if I actually had any of these people on the show, though. 😂

Taking a look at @testringer.bsky.social's Traveling w/ OmniFocus 4 course and wishing I would have taken it prior to our most recent trip. In the intro, Tim says how important it is to plan for when you return. Yeah. Let's just say I didn't really think that through this last time. 🥵

Has anyone read Culpability by Bruce Holsiger? No spoilers please but just wondering if I might like it (those who know me).

I’m not very skilled at writing posts avoiding using words that might attract the attention of more unsavory characters, but here goes… Today, I found myself needing to describe to our kids the whole body of humor having to do w/ the size of a man’s… well, you probably know what’s next.

Learning out loud can be so hard, sometimes. Yet, entirely life changing. Feeling grateful to the @tihe.bsky.social podcast guests and community for all the ways these special people have contributed to my life.

I followed Jenny Baumgartner’s recommendation from the most recent @tihe.bsky.social to watch: Won’t You Be my Neighbor (2018). Such an incredible documentary. I encourage anyone wanting to reflect on loving our neighbors using our inherent strengths and deepest sense of purpose to watch.

@polarisdotca.bsky.social I’m listening back to a @tihe.bsky.social episode during which I mention learning from you about noticing and wondering. Only I inadvertently state that you would have astrological photos up as students came into your classroom. 🥵Usually I catch myself, but not this time. 🤦‍♀️

I thought this looked like an egret but wasn’t used to seeing the salmon color on the bird’s head. Turns out it is a Western Cattle Egret (thanks to Merlin app for helping me identify it). I’ve never been as close to egrets as I was today, as they usually stay clear of humans in Southern California.

Thanks, again, to @geekypedagogy.bsky.social for recommending #WeAreLadyParts on @tihe.bsky.social. Not only are both seasons magnificent, the soundtrack is wonderful and will be a great way to keep remembering the show.

Just finished watching all six seasons of Superstore (via Hulu). I’m going to miss those characters immensely. Such a satisfying ending, as well.

“Ignorance makes it too easy to jump to conclusions about what we don’t understand.” ~ Robin Wall Kimmerer in #BraidingSweetgrass

“If grief can be a doorway to love, then let us weep for the world we are breaking apart. So we can love it back to wholeness again.” ~ Robin Wall Kimmerer in #BraidingSweetgrass

Trying out my first 'hat tip' remix, thanks to @cogdog.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy for sharing. My h/t goes to @jdarlack.bsky.social, who is a wonderful colleague from whom I learn something each time we're together. Want to create your own? Start here: remixer.visualthinkery.com/r/ViCzFPIl1H...

So fun to have @geekypedagogy.bsky.social come back on @tihe.bsky.social. This time, she shares about her wonderful new book: Snafu Edu.

Challenging and wonderful day of podcasting today. Can’t wait for these two interviews to come out in the next couple months.

I woke up super early today to attend a #MYFest25 session about creating analog games, led by Sam Illingworth. My oh my was that ever a good decision. 🤯 For more about Sam's work: www.samillingworth.com

99.9% of the time, when I get rid of something, I'm left with zero regret. However, I just had this flashback to a white elephant gift I received probaly 15 years ago that was this gigantic horn-magnifying-glass thing that would have been the perfect prop for a video idea I just had. 🔎 🦏 💔 #regrets

Wonderful watching H (11) shine in Madagascar this week! ❤️ “I Like to Move It” will be playing on the soundtrack of my mind for some time to come, it seems.

“…leadership is rooted not in power and authority, but in service and wisdom.” 🔥❤️

Just finished reading The Berry Pickers. I devoured it in about a day and a half. Each time I read a work of fiction, I’m reminded why I should do that more often.

Consider joining #MYFest25 and experience community and collective imagination like you may never have encountered before. I sound like an infomercial right now. But I mean it! ❤️🔥

Dave and I cleaned out and organized about 1/3 of our walk in pantry today. We celebrated our 20th anniversary in April, meaning that we have done this many times in our two decades together. Still hard to beat the feeling of having done something productive for the day, though.

TIL MARC records—the metadata backbone of libraries— were created in the 1960s by Henriette Avram, a computer programmer who worked at the NSA before joining the Library of Congress. Carla Hayden called this her favorite image in _The Card Catalog_ 😢: www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture...

If only we all knew this and lived this, as a people: “What happens to one happens to us all. We can starve together or feast together. All flourishing is mutual.” ~ Robin Wall Kimmerer in Braiding Sweetgrass

Reading The AI Con and just now learning this about Amazon’s Mechanical Turk: “The name itself comes from an eighteenth-century chess-playing machine called the “Mechanical Turk”, which appeared automated but in fact hid a person, trapped under the table and using magnets to make the correct moves.”

“Contrary to what we may think, simply giving feedback doesn't initiate change. It has to be accepted as valid and actionable by the learner. He then has to commit to using that information to do something different.” Zaretta Hammond