Fleep’s Deep Thoughts

I’ve been playing with a new website design and have been intending to move everything over to the http://fleeptuque.com domain for some time, but I was worried about losing traffic and subscribers and yadda yadda.. sometimes I guess you just have to take the plunge.

If you read my blog through an RSS subscription, the new [...]

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The folks at WVXU posted the audio archive of the Impact Cincinnati show last week, but I forgot to post about it here!

In the WVXU studios with Chris Brewer of Northern Kentucky University
I’m a huge fan of WVXU, the local public radio and NPR station, so it was a real treat to go downtown, see [...]

Sign Up for Connectivism & Connective Knowledge 2009!
Faithful readers may remember a series of posts last year about a Massively Open Online Course (MOOC) I took called Connectivism & Connective Knowledge, taught by George Siemens and Stephen Downes through the University of Manitoba’s Extended Education program.
George and Stephen are offering the course again this year, [...]

Dad’s Army picture, 1951
Just a brief update to apologize for the several months of silence on the blog. As many of you know, Dad passed away a couple weeks ago and the last few weeks have been spent trying to catch up on all the things that got left by the wayside while we [...]

Feminism is a topic that I don’t talk much about these days, but in the last 24 hours it’s popped up on my radar twice and it’s made me think about why the word, the label itself, doesn’t seem to be part of my current vocabulary. 15 years ago, “feminist” would have appeared in [...]

Fleep on a previous episode of Metanomics
This coming Monday, January 26th, the weekly Metanomics show will feature a topic of interest to educators.
Kids Building Digital Bridges
Metanomics, Monday, January 26, Noon to 1 Pacific Time
Virtual worlds transport young people outside their neighborhoods and offer them chances for creative collaboration across physical, generational and cultural boundaries. Metanomics [...]

I started writing this post in 2008 but didn’t get it finished before the year ended, even with the extra second. In light of the subject, perhaps that is quite apropos.
Like most of you, I’ve been reading all of the end-of-year retrospectives and predictions posts, and scrolling through the “year in photos” or video [...]

50 kids happy to get a Nintendo Wii for Christmas - watch more gamer videos

It’s funny, my first reaction to this video was to turn down the volume (man these kids have a set of pipes!) and then to laugh at the sheer joy of it. I remember when Christmas felt like that! [...]

Wishing everyone a happy holiday season and a restful, relaxing time with family. (And with all apologies to my Second Life friends, the card wasn’t supposed to spew snow, really!) =)
Merry Winter Holiday Hanukka Christmas Solstice And Everything In Between!