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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 2007
Access2Knowledge
I have known for some time about the A2K conference, being held at Yale from April 21 to 23, and was hoping to drop in on it. I had even considered sending my Media Law students. But at $250 a pop, that’s pretty unlikely. (Besides, I’m going to a play–several, actually–that Saturday.) Conferences cost money–there’s [...]
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News knowledge
Pew has another report out suggesting that Daily Show viewers are the most knowledgeable about current affairs. Viewers of the show tend (54%) to be in the “high knowledge” group, whereas only 35% of the general public are. I’m a little surprised at how low the numbers are across the board. I took the quiz [...]
Democratization and the Networked Public Sphere
Hey, speaking of things happening in the city I want to go to, Trebor just let me know about a panel at New School next Friday that looks really promising. The three panelists are each interesting and original thinkers in their own right, with enough convergence/divergence to provide for an interesting discussion, I think. Hope [...]
Righting a Class
Courses are not going as well as I would like this semester, and one course in particular. I haven’t written about it until now, since this blog is normally filled with happy thoughts. Besides, I figured I would wait until after the class was over and do a post-mortem. But then I realized that I [...]
PodCamp & Virtual Hermits
The whole idea of living in Manhattan was that, unlike Buffalo, I would be at the center of universe, and could go and do everything. And yet, I hardly have time to blog this semester (yes, I’m still alive), let alone go a mile downtown to do cool things. What cool things? Well, I managed [...]
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