I’ve visited Belize often enough now for work at MIT that I thought it might be best to post this list of practical tips on my website. (Last updated March 24, 2023) General Info Travel Info Take bug repellant. Drink bottled or purified water. U.S. State Department Travel Guidelines: Belize CDC: Belize You don’t need… Continue Reading Tips for Traveling to Belize
Every year, we submit a report that shares the highlights of our unit activities at MIT. For a number of years now I’ve been the primary author of this “record” of our collective work. Drawing nearly verbatim from this report, below is a list of the major activities I was involved with for the last… Continue Reading Recap of the Big Things I did at work in 2020-2021
Every year, we submit a report that shares the highlights of our unit activities at MIT. For a number of years now I’ve been the primary author of this “record” of our collective work. Drawing nearly verbatim from this report, below is a list of the major activities I was involved with for the last… Continue Reading Recap of the Big Things I did at work in 2019-2020
Every year, we submit a report that shares the highlights of our unit activities at MIT. For a number of years now I’ve been the primary author of this “record” of our collective work. Drawing nearly verbatim from this report, below is a list of the major activities I was involved with for the last… Continue Reading Recap of the Big Things I did at work in 2018-2019
Every year, we submit a report that shares the highlights of our unit activities at MIT. For a number of years now I’ve been the primary author of this “record” of our collective work. Drawing nearly verbatim from this report, below is a list of the major activities I was involved with for the last… Continue Reading Recap of the Big Things I did at work in 2017-2018
Every year, we submit a report that shares the highlights of our unit activities at MIT. For a number of years now I’ve been the primary author of this “record” of our collective work. Drawing nearly verbatim from this report, below is a list of the major activities I was involved with for the last… Continue Reading Recap of the Big Things I did at work in 2016-2017
The other way I’ve described this phenomenon is something like: software development on academic time. In academic time, there’s rarely a deadline, nor a reason to complete a project. This can drag out any project, and especially software development/educational technology projects indefinitely. I’ve worked hard over the last 15 years to keep from doing this,… Continue Reading Academic Time vs. Real Time
A lost post, likely from 2010-2012, publishing now as a historical artifact. Well, there’s my catchy title. This post has relatively little to do with that, but rather it leads to some things the folks at OEIT should be considering. OEIT is responsible for developing and transitioning promising educational and learning technologies from research to… Continue Reading Teens don’t twitter? What does this mean for Stellar?
A lost post, likely from circa 2010-2012, publishing now as a historical artifact. When I was researching OEIT in 2008, one of the things I found most interesting was its organizational strategy. If one looks at the cycle of innovation, OEIT wants to operate in the experiment and incubate quadrants, and work to transition incubated… Continue Reading Project Strategy at OEIT
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