https://educationaltechnology.ca/ rants & resources from an open educator (archived edition) https://educationaltechnology.ca/2807/ https://educationaltechnology.ca/2807/ 2017-07-22 Next week, I'll be attending the 6th annual New Jersey GAFE summit . In addition to facilitating a few workshops, I'm also very honoured to have been invited to deliver the opening keynote at the event. My presentation, titled Developing… https://educationaltechnology.ca/2804/ https://educationaltechnology.ca/2804/ 2017-06-05 This post was co-written with Katia Hildebrandt and also appears on her blog. This week (June 5-11) we'll be hosting a couple of events and activities related to digital citizenship as part of a series of DigCiz conversations . Specifically,… https://educationaltechnology.ca/2795/ https://educationaltechnology.ca/2795/ 2017-01-23 Hey everyone – I’m really hoping that you can support the following with your direct contribution or by sharing this far and wide. Back in January of 2013, I initiated a massive open online course about edtech called #etmooc .… https://educationaltechnology.ca/2776/ https://educationaltechnology.ca/2776/ 2017-01-14 This morning, I received a photo (found below – I added the watermark) from a catfishing victim. She received it from a scammer who had used many of my personal and professional photos to form an online, intimate relationship with… https://educationaltechnology.ca/2758/ https://educationaltechnology.ca/2758/ 2016-06-30 This post was written jointly with Katia Hildebrandt and also appears on her blog . Catfishing schemes , or romance scams, continue to plague social networking services. In fact, the issue has become so common that there's a good chance… https://educationaltechnology.ca/2740/ https://educationaltechnology.ca/2740/ 2016-04-16 I received this email a few minutes ago (and a few hours after I noticed that my Facebook account was down). For the fourth time, Facebook has disabled my account because the company doesn’t believe I am who I say… https://educationaltechnology.ca/2725/ https://educationaltechnology.ca/2725/ 2016-03-25 Over the past week, I’ve had a number of people share articles with me related to Facebook’s testing of a new feature that is purported to alert Facebook users when it finds that someone is impersonating your account . Once… https://educationaltechnology.ca/2719/ https://educationaltechnology.ca/2719/ 2016-03-19 I’ve written and spoken extensively about my problems with romance scammers , criminals who have used my photos (and the photos of many others) to create fake profiles and trick victims into sending them significant amounts of money. In my… https://educationaltechnology.ca/2714/ https://educationaltechnology.ca/2714/ 2016-03-12 For a number of years, I’ve enjoyed using Reddit as a source for my daily reading. Reddit, often known as “the front page of the Internet,” is often where one can find stories and trends before they go viral in… https://educationaltechnology.ca/2706/ https://educationaltechnology.ca/2706/ 2016-03-09 Yesterday, I received the following Facebook message: I posted this to my Facebook wall when I received it, and it was interesting to hear from several people who felt they might have been fooled had they received the same message.… https://educationaltechnology.ca/2685/ https://educationaltechnology.ca/2685/ 2016-02-28 Landing in Regina tonight, I checked my phone to find the following tweets directed at me. From what I was able to understand, it appears that this tweeter has been chatting with a person by the name of James Vardy… https://educationaltechnology.ca/2681/ https://educationaltechnology.ca/2681/ 2016-02-12 Hey there, I’ve been using Feedburner to handle my RSS feed for many years now. Unfortunately, the tool hasn’t been updated for many years and it causes problems when people want to use my content with (relatively) newer services .… https://educationaltechnology.ca/2627/ https://educationaltechnology.ca/2627/ 2015-10-17 If you follow me closely, you know that I’ve been discussing romance scams (also known as “catfishing”) for several years now. In short, a romance scam is where criminals will harvest photos from social media and dating site profiles and… https://educationaltechnology.ca/2620/ https://educationaltechnology.ca/2620/ 2015-10-15 [This post was written jointly with Katia Hildebrandt and also appears on her blog .] In recent weeks, the topic of digital identity has been at the forefront of our minds. With election campaigns running in both Canada and the… https://educationaltechnology.ca/2617/ https://educationaltechnology.ca/2617/ 2015-08-25 I’ve had many victims of ‪#‎ romancescams‬ (where scammers used my photos) ask me how it was possible that they saw “me” over Skype. From these conversations, I’ve discovered that the scammers used a technique to port video over Skype… https://educationaltechnology.ca/2603/ https://educationaltechnology.ca/2603/ 2015-07-08 This post was written jointly with Katia Hildebrandt and also appears on her blog . Recently, we presented at OER15 in Cardiff, Wales, on the topic of developing a framework for open courses. In our session, we considered our experiences… https://educationaltechnology.ca/2598/ https://educationaltechnology.ca/2598/ 2015-06-18 It’s worth the six minutes necessary to watch the reflections from this young person as she discusses the biases and stigmas we often hear related to acquiring and maintaining Internet friendships. Much of her monologue relates well to the development… https://educationaltechnology.ca/2532/ https://educationaltechnology.ca/2532/ 2015-04-26 “Once u have a rigid way of thinking in your head, sometimes you cannot change that, even if u want to.” This is relevant to so much of what we do with professional learning, change, policy, education, etc. This video… https://educationaltechnology.ca/2526/ https://educationaltechnology.ca/2526/ 2015-04-23 I was recently invited to speak with the #eLearnOnt “Game Changer” series where I discussed various options around building online and/or blended course environments via Google Hangout. I began with traditional LMS options and moved to the more nebulous concept… https://educationaltechnology.ca/2517/ https://educationaltechnology.ca/2517/ 2015-04-03 This past Wednesday, I was fortunate enough to co-facilitate a Day of Pink event for local school division. We invited approximately 100+ elementary students (mostly 7th graders) to participate. The themes included (digital) citizenship, (digital) identity, anti-bullying, and becoming an…