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- @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 2006
Democracy & Independence conference
This June 29-July 1, there is a “conference and roundtable summit” at UMass entitled Democracy & Independence: Sharing News and Politics in a Connected World. It looks to be a great conference, and is right up my alley, in terms of interests. Unfortunately, it’s a bit spendy for me ($350), especially considering I’m a bit [...]
Students being watched
I’ve just finished going through nearly 300 blogs, and my eyes feel like they are about to fall out of my head. (Thanks go to the inestimable help of Brenda, who took on 100 of these.) I’ll write a bit more about this later. First, I was crazy to ask a 400 person class to [...]
Small, not flat
Froomkin has a very nice post on what it means to pay for college. As I watch another cadre of students enter the working world burdened by crushing student loans–even public university school loans are crushing–it strikes me that it is an unsupportable system for both students and academics. In my ideal school, students attend [...]
Chinese Bloggers
Regarding the increase in Chinese bloggers, I coincidentally ran into the translation of a survey reported as Why Blog? in the Dongfang Morning News (via Zona Europa): Here are some results of a survey of 2,020 Chinese bloggers; the sampling methodology is unspecified, so please hold that grain of salt. * 26.2% started between 6 [...]
Of grills and other implants
Strange story on CNN about an attempt to seize suspects’ “fancy teeth”. The FBI tried to whisk a couple of drug dealers off to a dentist to… get up in their grills, I guess. Their attorney put a stop to it. But it does raise some interesting issues. Do they go to jail with gems [...]
The Hyperlinked Society
Joseph Turow at the Annenberg School for Communication (U. Penn) is organizing a conference called The Hyperlinked Society. He’s managed to invite some really cool people to come and talk, and somehow I managed to get invited too. I grateful for the opportunity to get to talk with these folks. If you would like to [...]
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