I’m an independent\u00a0 (aka not fully employed) web developer \/ consultant \/ teacher \/ digital media maker \/ storyteller \/ photographer \/ whatever people will pay me for. I’ve been in edtech since long before it was kind of a dirty word, back to the early 1990s. Check out my calling card<\/a> (a WordPress theme<\/a> I made) and my good old blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n I made the theme for this site<\/a> too, it’s a weird thing called a SPLOT<\/a> (and am responsible for things that don’t work).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Dogs are best! I love ’em (okay cats are sort of nice too).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The outpouring of sharing, collaboration, that we are all dealing with the same situation. Also seeing so much creativity and quick thinking, plus deep concern for students.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I’m enjoying expanding the network connections by following and reading new voices those in my current network recommend. It’s a good time to bust our bubbles. I am learning much from my colleagues in Virtually Connecting and from the stories of my students.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n We need to make sure we are taking care of ourselves, our families. I worry much about how we can maintain care over a longer stretch that lies ahead of us. It’s just the beginning now.<\/p>\n As always, hope, inspiration, a wee bit of joy.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 1) Who are you? I’m Alan. That was a tough question.\u00a0I\u00a0 live in Saskatchewan, Canada and have been working remotely\/online since 2006 (pivoted long ago). I’m an independent\u00a0…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":671,"featured_media":308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,6],"tags":[60,73,78,112,133,387,465],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/oer20.oerconf.org\/socialbingo\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/31\/files\/sites\/35\/2020\/03\/alan-by-cori.jpg","splot_meta":{"author":"@cogdog","license":"","source":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oer20.oerconf.org\/socialbingo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oer20.oerconf.org\/socialbingo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oer20.oerconf.org\/socialbingo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oer20.oerconf.org\/socialbingo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/671"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oer20.oerconf.org\/socialbingo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oer20.oerconf.org\/socialbingo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oer20.oerconf.org\/socialbingo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oer20.oerconf.org\/socialbingo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oer20.oerconf.org\/socialbingo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oer20.oerconf.org\/socialbingo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}2) What is your vibe? Share it in a meme or quote\u2026<\/h2>\n
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<\/p>\n3) What gives you hope these days?<\/h2>\n
4) Who are you learning from lately?<\/h2>\n
5) In your opinion, what should we all be caring about? Why?<\/h2>\n
6) What do you hope to take away from OER20?<\/h2>\n