re(Humanizing)
A Letter To A Friend – Healing the Future Self. This may not be the direction that you intended to head in. It may feel like a step backward into a trap you once successfully…
“Start where you are…”
can be found referred to in literary texts by authors writing from across different religious, cultural, and business contexts. When a friend introduced me to Pema Chodrin’s Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate…
Bespoke Learning, AI, & ‘On The Fly’ Design.
Personalized, Individualized, Bespoke, or good old fashion Custom all imply created by the hands of a human as opposed to factory machine manufactured. As an Instructional Designer, I am feeling like I am spending as…
Why ARE you learning?
Are your reasons intrinsic or extrinsic? What does that mean? As a child I was an adventurer and seeker of knowledge. My love of learning was almost DNA level innate, or intrinsic. As I grew…
P.Ecos Where the Water Is
According to New Mexico Magazine’s Carmella Padilla’s article, Ode to Pecos, “The name Pecos derives from a Towa Indian word meaning ‘place where there is water‘, a reference to a source in the fertile river…
M.Ecos Sustainability
Back in 1994, when an NLP (neurolinguistic programming) coach asked me, “Where do you see the future?”, he did not expect I would answer, “All around me”, with a shrug. We had met at a…
L.Ecos (re)Inventing Self
TechTrends published “Creating an Intentional Web Presence: Strategies for Every Educational Technology Professional”. It concluded with: “To be a successful, lifelong educational technology professional, you need to be digitally literate and model digital fluency in…
You had me at Raspberry Pi
I was first introduced to Raspberry Pi through searching for local San Diegans creating innovative education to be speakers at an upcoming TEDx event. I found the group that was creating the original KA Lite,…
Your Learning Journey Guide
This course will teach you how to develop a learning network ecosystem centered around your strengths, goals, and interests along your lifelong learning journey. This will adapt as you grow. An LNE is not a brick house. It is…
Learning networks, educators, & DAO – forming a Learning Network Ecosystem
When I first came up with the notion of educating people about the value of digital presence and personal/professional learning networks (PLNs) it was inspired by the popularity of the PLN within the…