Dave Cormier

You don't even have my email address.

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What is the word for things that are both embarrassing and exciting at the same time? As I head off for a short vacation, I, for the first time, am leaving behind a totally empty inbox.

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excited to be back in Inverness to share my research on belonging & place via the LTA Connect: Compassionate Pedagogies series.

open online presentation, tomorrow June 10: 3-4pm Scotland time, 10-11am EDT for those playing along at home :)

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@downes.bsky.social I'm watching stuff on your presentation and wondering if i can sneak in!

how we talk about digital practices in education. a caveat, a relic, a reckoning, and a rant walk into a bar...

thinking aloud. how do YOUR experiences of digital practice/discourse align? with so much appreciation to Donna Haraway & Ursula Franklin.

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#blogging4life

I heard rumour that this book review might be coming out. I can't say that there has been anything else about writing this book that had me more concerned than how this might go. I really, really hope he liked it. You can read it with me :)

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The hardest thing about living three hours ahead of where I work is not sending text messages to @abject.ca at 6am Pacific time when I see something cool.

Research findings that are fun to read. Imagine.

I have thoughts about this :)

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I'm presenting at TRU in 75 minutes - "One vision for thinking about Open Learning in 2025" #OEweek25

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Drive Back Home (2024) ⭐ 8.2 | Drama 1h 40m

Just watched "drive back home" www.imdb.com/title/tt2677... It's a story, from 1970, about a good old boy from Northern New Brunswick who has to go to Toronto to get his gay brother from jail. It's amazing.

Warren Zevon - Wikipedia

I was today years old when I found out that Warren Zevon's song "Excitable Boy" is the story of the narrator from The Everly Brother's "Wake Up Little Susie."

I mean. That's what the Wikipedia article seems to be saying. And Zevon toured with the Everly Brothers.

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I think it depends on where you're starting from. I'm less disposed to be sympathetic to a theory that supports a lot of structure in the classroom.

It’s an interesting paper. I appreciate the history as well as the perspective.

This was a fun early morning read. "A neutral toolkit? For a fundamental critique of constructive alignment" www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

"Conceptualising teaching as entrapment, CA is expressly and self-consciously a ‘pedagogy of confinement’"

No idea what it’s named, it’s just the one behind the residence :)

Kamloops hike. Vol. 1

Or even makes us more likely to go looking for 'the way things are done' from an authority, rather than thinking our way through issues and maintaining their existing complexity.

That's probably too far... but it's still what i'm wondering this morning.

Like somehow thinking that there is a reason, somewhere in the ether, for spellings that clearly don't make sense, makes us more susceptible to other things that don't make sense because someone convinces us "that just the way things are"

Walking in to the office this morning listening to history lectures. I'm now wondering if blindly accepting 15th century spellings for words affects the way English language speakers react to the expression "that's just the way it is". see: Knight, Gnat, enough, etc...

as the tariffs loom, i managed to process out loud (sorta)

"reading 20+ books about Scottish history this past year makes me wary of assuming that the historical distinctions of a nation perched just above an Empire can be solid things, forever."
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I can only speak to meeting one of your children, but can say I found the experience delightful

If I'm saying that I want students to find their own resources on the web, in an effort to teach them good practices for their future needs, I'm making the course harder and requiring more literacies for them to get through the process.

I'm ok with that. But I'm trying to model it.

I'm starting to think about how I can talk about Open Learning/Education at my new job. I definitely think that one half of that is "widening participation". Things like PLAR, ZTCs lowered barriers for entry.

the other half, open practices?Some of those practices work against widening participation

I'm holding onto it with my fingertips.

Four weeks in, still inbox zero(ish). First time in my life I've ever made it this far. Thanks to all of your who have encouraged it over the years.

This really beautiful and thoughtful review of my book came out yesterday. It’s by @brennacgray.bsky.social who works at TRU. Not with me, but still. A week in, feeling good about this place. And thanks to Brenna…a year on, feeling good about the book. journals.sfu.ca/cjhe/index.p...

Picture of TRU. Some buildings in the foreground. Snow covered hills in the background. Just before dawn

A new adventure begins. First day on site at TRU. Bags got lost en route, but my enthusiasm has not. Wish me luck :)

Looking forward to @davecormier.bsky.social coming to work at TRU. @pwmartin.bsky.social is leaving some big shoes to fill, but Dave is amazing and is going to do great work.