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Austin — Forever Changing
Austin has always been all about change. Austin skyline, 2018 My earliest memories of Austin come from the early 60s when we would come up from Houston to attend UT football games. Often, we’d meet up...
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SXSWedu 2018 in the Rear View Mirror
Once again, the “hidden” portion of SXSW has come and gone. SXSWedu may draw educators, students, and educational technology companies from around the globe, but it rarely draws attention in Austin the...
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Doodling SXSW 2018 — Tuesday
Day 2 of SXSWedu 2018 started off with a call-and-response kick-off for the keynote speaker talking about reality-based education and how his college, a historical black college, became the first urban...
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Day 3 Doodles from SXSWedu 2018
Sure enough, I started to slow down by the third day of SXSWedu —you’ll notice there are fewer doodles for this day. What Hath We Wrought? Connectedness was supposed to help bring a more participatory...
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Final Daze of SXSWedu 2018
Yes, you read that right: “daze.” After even just 2 days of jam-packed days of session after session opening amazing doors to educational insights and practice, the cognitive overload of SXSWedu starts...
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Some Saturday Links — What is a “Good Death”?
My recent blog posts about “The Dirtiest Word I Know” and “Further Thoughts on Death & Dying, Good and Bad” both hint at the concept of a “good death.” That begs an obvious question I’ll start to...
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Indian Territory (Oklahoma) & Back Again, 1897
G.M.C. Massey (standing, middle left) with family, East Texas circa 1890s Once again, our guest blogger, G.M.C. Massey (my grandfather) shares a story about traveling to visit relatives in the Indian...
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Once Upon a House — Part 1
I started this as a simple list of the various houses and places I have lived. But with nearly every place, I found myself wanting to explore that memory a bit more…and more…and more…until the list...
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Once Upon a House (2)…College Daze
There was never any doubt I would go to college. There was never any real doubt where I would go to college: Austin. Once out of high school, I enrolled at the University of Texas and moved back to...
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