Audrey Watters

Travel I didn’t leave Hermosa this week. But Kin did – he’s up in San Francisco, and I miss him fiercely. It’s rare that our schedules have us going in different directions, and I’m miserable when it does. Next week (for me): Bolton (just outside of Manchester, UK) Reading No...

Travel Kin and I flew home from Barcelona on Monday. And other than that, this week has been travel-free. We don’t have a car, so everywhere we went this week was within walking distance of home. Fortunately for us, that includes the beach and a great club, Saint Rocke. Next...

I’m stealing a page from my friend Doug Belshaw's playbook. He does a great job cataloging what he’s done and what he’s read and what he’s learned each week. To that end, he sends out a weekly newsletter (ed-tech folks should subscribe as Doug's work at Mozilla means there are...

And we're off. Next week begins the whirlwind of speaking and traveling for Kin and me. Here's a look at our calendar: January 24: Philadelphia "The Hype and Hope of MOOCs" - I'm speaking on a panel with Bryan Alexander, Anya Kamenetz, and Ray Schroeder. This event is part of...

I spent much of this, the first day of 2014, updating all my passwords. I should probably perform this task more than once a year, I realize. But I bet I still do this far more regularly than most other folks do. Even so, I’ve often still violated one of...

Last week, I made a couple of updates to Hack Education: I refreshed some of the content on the Hack Education Ed-Tech Guide. I added a section with some details, including a partial bibliography and a chapter outline, about my forthcoming book Teaching Machines. Both of these sections exist as...

Just a short update on some big changes: I’m incredibly proud of my boyfriend Kin Lane, who’s been named a Presidential Innovation Fellow. The year-long appointment – he’ll be working for the VA – will involve our moving to Washington DC in August. It’s all been a bit of a...

I cancelled my Flickr Pro account yesterday, and following a nudge from David Wiley, moved my digital photographs to Trovebox, an open source photo management tool. I’ve been a member of Flickr since June 2005. I started the account to host and display photos of Anthony’s artwork which I’d often...

I write for a living. I’ve freelanced here and there, but I’ve made the decision in recent years to focus my efforts on developing my own websites, particularly Hack Education, rather than write for someone else elsewhere. As such I’ve modeled much of what I do here on successful “indie”...

I wept yesterday. I wept over the loss of a young man I never knew. I wept for his friends and his family. I wept for Quinn. For Larry. For Cory. I wept for the open Web — for the work done and left undone. I wept for all of...