Monthly Archives: April 2005

On Wikinews

I have to admit, I haven’t really been tracking on Wikinews since it went live. I visited recently, and I remain ambivalent. In many ways, by surviving as long as it has, it may have made it through the shakiest part of its gestation. But it still doesn’t stand well on its own. The Wired [...]
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Teacher’s aid

Chheng-Hong has decided to turn the multiple choice exam on its head. I am probably one of the teachers he’s looking toward there, since I recall not making as many comments on student work last semester as might have liked. In any case, it’s symptomatic of the difficulties of teaching at a research school. When [...]
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Audio blogging about edublogging

I’m not sure if this is strictly public, but Google thinks it is, so… Trebor Sholz asked me to talk a little about blogs and education as part of the Share, Share Widely conference I blogged about earlier. Looks like some interesting people are going, I’m really sorry I can’t attend. As if I weren’t [...]
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Coding Ships

Though as a Democrat (yes, I got fed up with the local Greens and besides, I was hoping I could have an impact on the primary process), I should be scandalized by this, my inner Neal Stephenson and my inner Monty Python are both loving the idea of a H1B cruise ship, hovering (possibly) in [...]
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Share Widely

For those of you in New York City this Friday, you might be interested in attending the Share, Share Widely workshop and after-party, organized by my colleague here at UB, Trebor Sholz: Join us for an intensive one day conference about new media education. Connect with new media researchers and educators, present and discuss, and [...]
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Tending our garden

This is the concluding bit from a short essay I just wrote. I’m demoralized lately about academia in general, but I hope it doesn’t show here… If social informatics is a gathering storm, if there are a large number of people who do work within the area and are willing to build the field, we [...]
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Grads Blogging

Derek Mueller has a podcast up of a recent conference presentation on weblogs and emergence, in which he explains why graduate students should blog. And while we are on the subject, Kevin Lim has been blogging for a while now, but lately he has really kicked into overdrive, and with good effect. His is now [...]
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