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Tweets
- @lrainie As it is, each time I start a class session with "Pack it up, pack it in, let me begin..." fewer and fewer recognize it. 2 days ago
- @lrainie It's hard for me to do anything menacingly, and I'd try it for a classroom entrance, but I suspect the reference would be lost... 2 days ago
- @lrainie That is my new goal! Channel Omar more often :). 2 days ago
- @lrainie Reducible in part to "who said it wasn't already all a game"? :) 2 days ago
- Word or two length predictions for social media game-changers over next decade? Me: Goggles, Badges, Social Sensors #gamechangers 2 days ago
- One more on the "higher ed is newspapers" meme. David Brooks: http://t.co/bUsz8sXA 2 days ago
- My students know I am not a fan of Flash. Rare exception: http://t.co/1ElX1Q8E 3 days ago
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Monthly Archives: April 2004
More on inverse surveillance
I promised some quick notes on the IWIS workshop earlier this week. I do have some note-like notes, especially from the early part of the workshop, but I will instead focus on some take-away reflections about interesting issues. I was pleasantly surprised at the focus on the social over (or, at least, with) the hardware. [...]
Collaborative web publishing in a democratic knowledge society
[This is part of a draft of the chapter I'm writing for the International Handbook of Virtual Learning Environments, forthcoming from Springer.] We have moved from the most practical and direct applications of collaborative web publishing technologies as replacements for existing educational artifacts to an idealized vision of the blogosphere as a continuous collaborative large-scale [...]
Cyberporn Class
Talked to my chair today about what I’ll be teaching next year. At the graduate level, I’ll be teaching the communication theory course as a year-long course for new students. I’m slightly disappointed that I won’t get the chance to do an Introduction to Internet Studies, or something. It’s not locked in yet, so that [...]
Some practical implementation issues
[This is part of a draft of the chapter I'm writing for the International Handbook of Virtual Learning Environments, forthcoming from Springer.] I have been using weblogs and wikis in my courses since early in 1999. Over the last five years, I have used weblogs, in various configurations, for undergraduate and graduate courses of a [...]
Stupid presidents
Michael Froomkin writes about how we might rank George Bush in terms of competency to run the US. He looks at Brad DeLong’s pegging him at not among the top 25 million, and notes that in the worst case, this places him in the 83rd percentile of all potential presidents. Now, I have on occasion [...]
Yeah, I’m cool
So, the poor old Jetta is feeling its way to 100K miles and we’ve had to spend a lot of money recently to keep it on the road. Today, we blew a hole through one of the exhaust pipes. They’re fixing it tomorrow, but today I got to pretend that it was meant to sound [...]
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