Author: kfasimpaur

  • A story of public places, food, and extending outward

    A story of public places, food, and extending outward

    In the extremely rural place where I live, there is lots of space, but not a lot of public spaces in the conventional sense. No coffee houses, malls, or parklets. We do have large open pieces of public land and an amazing library. A couple years ago, I wanted to start a seed library, and…

  • Can we find a middle ground for conversation?

    Can we find a middle ground for conversation?

    Yesterday, I saw this quote on Twitter posted by @dogtrax from Advice to Writers.     I read this and immediately identified with it. Then throughout the day, it kept coming back into my mind with some nagging wonderings. In particular, I thought of a book I recently read, very passionate and clearly designed to…

  • Unmaking an Introduction – CLMOOC week 1 make

    Unmaking an Introduction – CLMOOC week 1 make

    The time has arrived — CLMOOC 2015 has begun. Everyone is invited to join in (or step out) anytime. It’s a highly flexible connected learning experience. The week 1 “make” is “Unmake an Introduction.” This is a twist on the usual “introduce yourself” activity that invites us to consider our identity in different contexts, to…

  • Thinking about open practice

    Thinking about open practice

    (cross-posted from K12 Open Ed) I’ve been thinking a lot lately about open learning and with Open Education Week coming up, thought it would be a good time to explore this in more detail. To be clear, I am not talking about open educational resources (OER), but rather open learning practices. (Is there a common…

  • Passion-driven learning

    Passion-driven learning

    I am very excited to be convening the Passion-Driven Learning strand of the K12 Online Conference this year. This is an approach I believe deeply in. We have an all-star line up covering vital topics such as genius hour, connected learning, and more. Several of these projects are ones I’ve been proud to be associated…

  • Mining the Riches

    Mining the Riches

    Have you ever found some completely amazing resource on the web and then seeing that it was a couple years old thought, “Wow! Where have I been? How did I miss this?” The truth is that there are vast treasures out there if only we can find them at the moments we can use them.…

  • Happy Connected Educator Month!

    Happy Connected Educator Month!

    As you probably know, October is Connected Educator Month (CEM). This is a month full of activities to establish or strengthen our online connections with others. Many of us have found that being “connected” has deepened our teaching and learning practices and made them more rewarding, and that’s what this month is all about.

  • Kids Maker Day 2014

    Kids Maker Day 2014

    (cross-posted from K12 Open Ed blog) For the last few year’s, I’ve been helping put together a local kids maker day. This year’s event, influenced in part by CLMOOC,  was last weekend. It was a great success. The planned program is shown here. When we hold this annual local event, we never know how many…

  • What is a “story?”

    What is a “story?”

    Last night, during our #clmooc twitter chat, we had a very interesting discuss about what makes something a story.  Can a picture or a recipe or a light sculpture be a “story?” See the actual discussion below for more. We thought this conversation was so fascinating (and so hard to navigate in 140 character tweets)…

  • Genius Hour as MOOC – What’s the purpose?

    Genius Hour as MOOC – What’s the purpose?

    Last week on TTT, a group of us got together to talk about intergenerational MOOC participation and what might happen if there were a cMOOC focused on the idea of Genius Hour. Here’s the video: