If you deliberately made your way here, thanks! I'm a technologist by trade, sometimes a teacher, and, most often, a learner. Using the Web as a classroom, I'm able to connect with thousands of other learners in a deliberate collective effort to bring logic and rationality to this environment while significantly adding to the chaos. Such activity is at once mindful and mindless. It seems to satisfy an unending itch to understand how we learn and grow together as thinking individuals in this rapidly changing culture that we are now creating.

writing:

• "The Cyborg and the Noble Savage: Ethics in the war on information poverty", in Handbook of Research in Technoethics Edited by Rocci Luppicini (the Idea Group, 2007-08).
• Four short articles in the Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics, ed Carl Mitcham (Macmillan Reference, July 2005)
  • Semiotics: Language and Culture
  • The Digital Divide
  • The Polygraph
  • Scientism
  
  
• Spinning Webs of Significance: Considering anonymous communities in activity systems. This paper was delivered to the International Society for Cultural Research and Activity Theory (Aarhus, Denmark: June 7-11, 1998) translated by Solange Mostafa Puntel for 2002 publication in Contrapontos.
• Abductive Logic: Primary skill for a postmodern era abstract of a paper presented to the American Educational Research Association 1997 Annual Meeting Semiotics Special Interest Group
• Print vs. Online Scholarly Publishing: Notes and reflections on the peer review process. Panel contribution at the annual meeting of the Association for Educational Communications Technology, 1997 ERIC Document
• Production and Consumption of Meaning: The interplay between subject and object in open hypertext representation Delivered at the conference: Semiotics as a Bridge between the Humanities and the Sciences Victoria College University of Toronto November 2-5, 1995
• USENET: a constructivist learning environment Presented at the Association for Educational Communications Technology, (Anaheim, February, 1995)
• Augmentation of the Intellect: Network Instruments, Environments and Strategies for Learning my initial attempt of online writing about online writing. (May, 1994)

• From Center to Periphery: Shifting Agency in Complex Technical Learning Environments Presented at the meeting of the American Educational Research Association, March 27, 1997, Chicago.
• Affordances and Constraints of the Internet for Learning and Instruction Presented to a joint session of the Association for Educational Communications Technology •DLPE: Division of Learning and Performance Environments •Research and Theory Division Indianapolis, Feb. 14-18, 1996 ERIC Document
• Dynamic Learning Communities: an alternative to designed instructional systems Submitted to Educational Technology Research and Development (November 1996) ERIC Document
• Cultural Assimilation of the Internet: a case study In M. Simonson (Ed.), Proceedings of selected research and development presentations . Washington D. C.: Association for Educational Communications and Technology, in press.
• From Local to Virtual Learning Environments: Making the Connection Presented to the American Educational Research Association annual meeting in San Francisco, April, 1995
• Adoption of learning technologies in schools and universities With Brent Wilson, Lorraine Sherry, Jackie Dobrovolny, and Mike Batty (in Adelsberger, et. al. (eds) Handbook on Information Technologies for Education and Training

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September 06, 2008