I just had a chat with Karl Peterson, current month 12 student, he called to share that he’d met a professor, Jim Groom, at the University of Mary Washington who’s doing a course on Digital Storytelling as an open university course. According to Peterson, Groom has no formal ed tech training but is mirroring …
An open letter to my emdt co-workers, co-conspirators & creativity enablers, On one level or another I’ve been teaching communication and writing since I took my first teaching assignment 15-years ago. One thing that I learned right away was that it seemed to be a big function of the education system to take the eagerness …
One of my students recently read an article in the New York Times about how Twitter was killing the art of real conversation because twitter-ers were breaking the first rule of conversation by not really listening and only waiting for their opportunity to jump in. Then my student questioned how social media and Twitter might …
My favorite crazy photo of the past week is by French photographer Thierry Legault, who captured the space shuttle Endeavor docked to the International Space Station as the pair flew in orbit with the Sun in the background. Thanks to Wired Science for the heads-up via Twitter.For more of Mr. Legault’s photograph go to Astrophotography. …
See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor. r/2′d by Net@Night
Recently one of my students confessed: I’m really not a twitter fan, I get frustrated to see what people are posting and not being able to comment back. I’m trying to figure out what app I can get on my iPhone that will double post to twitter and facebook. I prefer facebook because I can …
A student sent the link to the following cartoon to me. It made me pause. With the world continuing to spin just a little out of control it can prompt one to entertain a gloomy disposition and express no surprise that we can’t seem to work out our grievances. Perhaps one of the differences today …
Argh. I only have so much screen space. I hate it when someone decides to do dozens of tweets in a row. Dude, do a blog post and then put the link in your twitterfeed. Unfollow! Even scoble has figured this out. We had a brief smackdown on this subject a year and a half …
Another day, another Fair Use issue in the headlines. After working with my graduate students over the past six months I’m left with the feeling that most of them approach the subject of copyright as something that the big media companies hold over their heads, preventing them from using the music that they want in …
Check out http://SilentKeynote.com to protest Apple’s decision 2 treat the apple community so poorly.