Historical Archives
Here’s some links I’ve collected, but not written about. Educause’s attempt to keep the anti-piracy provisions out of the latest education bill. Sadly, they were unsuccessful. (via Gardner) Bryan links to his podcast on digital storytelling. He’s always worth listening to. Liz Losh writes about Wesch’s video and responses to it. Haven’t had a chance…
Yesterday, I read an article in the Chronicle by James Lang where he urges teachers to dispel the myth that freshmen will be transformed by their first year of college. Faculty tend to believe that students will have their minds opened and change their worldviews (usually in response to their own classes). He says this…
One thing we discussed as we prepared for our talk at ELI 2008 was that we should all confront our own personal fears and some of us did that. Barbara talked about fear as a faculty member using blogs to teach of being exposed, making a mistake, or generally looking stupid in front of her…
I left this really long comment on Alan’s blog and thought it deserved its own space. We all discussed this to some extent while at the conference and obviously, I had a lot of thoughts. Thanks Alan, for spurring them again. Here’s the comment: I have a love/hate relationship with conferences. On the one hand,…
Here’s the list of solutions to fear that was generated during our session. I’ll post our videos soon. How do you overcome fear? having the conversation pool your strengths accountability make mistakes new skills understand the problem how to get people to pay attention need a decision-making process make yourself aware of what’s out there…
I’m in San Antonio at the Educause Learning Institute annual conference. Highlights so far have been hanging out with some great and interesting people: Barbara G., Barbara S., Leslie, Martha, Brian Lamb, Alan Levine and more. I also saw Henry Jenkins and George Siemens give a couple of interesting talks. My impressions were that Jenkins…
For those of you not following the comments to yesterday’s post, one of the teachers from the show, Steve Maher, has not only commented, but has a good post about some of the issues pertaining to technology and education specifically in response to a review in the Philadelphia Inquirer online. Even if the show wasn’t…
Last night, I watched Frontline’s Growing Up Online. It made some attempt to be balanced by having researchers make some positive comments about the Internet, but it only showed negative examples–a boy who commits suicide, a girl who finds forums for anorexics, another who posts risque pictures of herself, etc. I had to pause the…
Apple has a new small computer You can rent movies via iTunes Microsoft products suck Scrabble makers want Scrabulous to be removed from Facebook Dragon Naturally Speaking comes out for the Mac Blackboard bought and emergency notification company YouTube is still huge I still can’t believe how much academics don’t know about technology Please consider…
After Christmas, I took a bookstore giftcard and purchased a cookbook and Wikinomics. I started reading it and got to chapter 3, which is a fairly interesting discussion of how IBM came to embrace Linux (among other topics). Then, the authors were writing about a successful female computer scientist/businesswoman, explaining her accomplishments and how much…
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