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Reunification

Posted on December 14, 2025 by actualham

Our family survived a mass shooting yesterday. Continue reading →

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The Library is Open: Keynote for the 2018 Pennsylvania Library Association Conference

Posted on October 16, 2018 by actualham

Good afternoon! A note about accessibility before I begin. If you would like to follow along with the written version of this talk, you can visit http://bit.ly/palakeynote. That link will also have the images on the slide deck with embedded … Continue reading →

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Facebook: Delete and Stay

Posted on October 12, 2018 by actualham

So I deactivated my Facebook a few months ago to enjoy a more distraction-free sabbatical, and there wasn’t really a minute where I missed it. I considered deleting it this week for a few reasons. The company’s ethics are crap, … Continue reading →

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Open Pedagogy at the Program Level: The #PlymouthIDS Case Study

Posted on November 26, 2017 by actualham

For the last several months, I’ve wanted to write something to document the remarkable experience I have had being a part of the Interdisciplinary Studies program here at Plymouth State University. I keep waiting to have the time to do … Continue reading →

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Open Pedagogy: Quick Reflection for #YearOfOpen

Posted on April 24, 2017 by actualham

Open Pedagogy. I’m taking a 15-minute break in a busy afternoon to sketch out some thoughts ahead of the #YearOfOpen hangout happening in a few minutes. Access. If we care about book costs, it’s because we understand that the real … Continue reading →

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“Open” for the Public: Using Open Education to Build a Case for Public Higher Ed

Posted on October 16, 2016 by actualham

In October 2016, I was invited to give an Ignite Talk at the Digital Media and Learning conference at UC-Irvine.  Ignite Talks are exactly five minutes long, with twenty slides that auto-advance every fifteen seconds. For those who prefer a … Continue reading →

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My Open Textbook: Pedagogy and Practice

Posted on May 18, 2016 by actualham

I’ve spent some time talking about open pedagogy at several universities this Spring, and in each of those presentations and workshops, I have usually mentioned The Open Anthology of Earlier American Literature, an OER anthology that my students and I … Continue reading →

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Our Changing University: Interdisciplinary Students Share Ideas

Posted on April 26, 2016 by actualham

This is a guest post by the following writers, all of whom are undergraduate students enrolled in “Introduction to Interdisciplinary Studies” at Plymouth State University. The university is currently restructuring itself around interdisciplinary clusters, so I asked these students to … Continue reading →

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Open Textbooks? UGH.

Posted on November 20, 2015 by actualham

I am writing this from OpenEd15 in Vancouver.  And this is a call to my like-minded compatriots spread across our conference rooms here, but also to the tweeps and digitalactivists I’ve worked with online over the last two years.  After … Continue reading →

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The University of New Hampshire Open Educational Resources Ambassador Pilot

Posted on June 29, 2015 by actualham

I am happy to be serving as a consultant for the University of New Hampshire on their exciting Open Educational Resources pilot.  I will use this space to curate blog posts and other materials that I create for the pilot.  … Continue reading →

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