The alternative title for this post is ‘When Amber met Stephen … at Kogarah‘.
I am in Kogarah at the moment and have some time to read and contemplate.
Amber is Amber Thomas. I met her work whilst looking for analyses of open source bike data. Amber has a delightful, detailed discussion about Seattle bike data.
By accident, I noticed Amber’s post about making a website using GitHub pages. This is where the blue sky came into my thinking. I was fascinated by her combination of Blogdown (an RStudio package) that runs using “Hugo” on the GitHub platform.
This is the site she created.
As I was exploring Amber’s creative journey, I received an alert to Stephen Downes’ keynote at SUNY on 9 March. Stephen shared his presentation on Open Learning, Open Networks and I found my way to slide 13. This has a link to a presentation he made last year, Disruptive Innovations in Learning.
Slide 39 in the appropriately named ‘Disruptive’ presentation is where Stephen met Amber at Kogarah. This is the slide freshly clipped:
Today, I have spent much of the day connecting Stephen and Amber’s ideas in GitHub. My aim is to share, contribute and co-create.
What started as a blue sky day, has felt in some very powerful learning moments like this:
There is some calm in the ocean pool at Coogee (not far from Kogarah) but there are some big waves out in the ocean.
I have five repositories in GitHub. The focus of my attention today has been my Portfolio repository. I am hopeful this will become my place to share my digital presence.
It is a very long way from Amber’s creativity. It is also an unsuccessful attempt to use Dean Attali’s insights too.
As ever, I am hopeful that my learning journey becomes a resource for others should they (you) choose to share, contribute and co-create.
It has been that kind of day at Kogarah.
Photo Credits
Sky and Sea (Keith Lyons, CC BY 4.0)
Slide 39 Disruptive Innovations in Learning (Stephen Downes, CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License)
Oh Keith! Yet again our thought paths intersect. I sat through a presentation today on disruptive innovation in technology – I am working in the innovation hub at Defence. At lunch afterwards I was talking with another triathlon coach who mentioned he and some friends sometime back created a device that can track drafting infringements in long course triathlon (to assist the officials with their job). We sponsor disruptive technology and he and I are two of the project managers overseeing prototype designs and builds and there are loads of things we see that would be applicable to sport if successful. Would love a coffee with you when we are both back in Canberra (enroute to Moo Tri to manage the penalty box for the pro race!).
Fi
That would be delightful, Fi.
Thank you for finding the post.
Safe travels,
Keith