A pioneer on the web since the early 1990s, Alan shares his ideas and discoveries at
CogDogBlog. Among his interests are
openness and sharing,
strategies for connected learning, building
tools for attribution, exploring new forms of web storytelling including
50+ Web 2.0 Ways To Tell a Story,
pechaflickr, teaching and building sites for courses and projects like
ds106,
Networked Narratives, and unleashing WordPress based tools under the vague name "
SPLOT".
As Director of Innovation and Community for Open Education Global, Alan facilities the open community space of OEG Connect, publishes the OEG Voices Podcast, and is currently running a series of live web casts as OEG Live.
He and his wife live on a 16 acre rural property outside of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, along with 2 cats, one dog, and a family of foxes.