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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: January 2008
Professors strike back
I got a kick out of some of these responses of faculty to their RateMyProfessor comments. Some are pretty amusing. They share what seems like the prevailing view: don’t trust what you see on RMP because it is clearly biased, and if you have a complaint, come talk to your instructor, and you might actually [...]
I wouldn’t steal
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The New Media Professional
The other course I’m teaching this semester–also distance–is formally titled “Communication, Media, and Society.” Is it only because I am in the field that I think that title might as well be shortened to “Stuff.” It’s hard to think what it doesn’t cover. In past incarnations, I’ve left it to the students to brainstorm a [...]
MTV c. 1983
My partner and I have, at times, discussed the reconstruction of music from the 1980s. She knows a lot of music that just never made my radar, and vice-versa. And neither of our understandings of what constitutes “80s music” corresponds directly with what is now considered “oldies” collections. (I still get a kick out of [...]
Interactive Communication – The online version
You may have noticed I have abandoned the idea of going all audio here. I’ve also decided not to echo every post from my grad courses here, but instead to do more periodic posts. And the periodicity will be rather long, since this semester’s classes are set up on a two-week cycle, in order to [...]
Going Solo
No, no, not me. Or at least not except during the summers and weekends. But there is a fun-looking one-day conference on May 16th called Going Solo, all about the process of becoming a successful freelancer in a world that seems to be moving us all in that direction. They have some well-known speakers lined [...]
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