.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Border Crossings Slide39 , originally uploaded by bgblogging . It's a real thrill to have Barbara Ganley here in Vancouver this week. I've long been blown away by her ability to go deeper when the the rest of us get caught up in going faster. And how richly she has conceptualized and articulated the potential for learning that can happen out on the open web -- perhaps most infamously with the frame of " slow blogging "... She was also a shaker in what I honestly think was the most compelling and effective conference session I have been at in recent years. So obviously I'm eager to experience what she lays down this Wednesday : Both Sides Now: In Person and on the Web; Slow Learning Communities for Fast Times The tensions between traditional and emerging forms of learning should be energizing, not paralyzing higher education. Harried and fearful of Nabokov's reminder that "Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form," we overlook the rich potential of positive deviance and failure; we forget that learning should be disruptive. In this discussion/workshop we will explore how creative dissonance, experienced through the vibrant interplay between face-to-face and online spaces, the rich borderland between old and new, leads us right now, right here to extraordinar ...