Tweets- halavais: RT @brainpicker: Trailer for Last Call, the first interactive horror movie where audience can interact with protagonist http://ow.ly/1gzPm
- halavais: Not cool enough for #sxsw this year. But *am* strategizing for chaperoning some grad students next year.
- halavais: These notes, taken by @TreborS when I was a guest in his classroom, should look familiar to former students: http://is.gd/aeoq1
- halavais: Quick chat makes people unhappy, while deep conversations make them happy. ∴ Twitter = Sad. http://is.gd/a9tgg
- halavais: RT @willrich45: Double wow...the #netp actually refers to students as "networked learners." I'm feeling faint.
- halavais: I am blue: http://splash.clubdevo.com/colorstudy/
- halavais: RT @tombarrett: The Pacific Northwest tree octopus (Octopus paxarbolis) can be found in temperate rainforests of the Olympic Peninsula h ...
- halavais: @laughingsquid I've always enjoyed Mattelart & Mattelart, as a brief supplemental overview.
- halavais: New post on the future of ebooks: http://alex.halavais.net/ipad-goes-back-to-the-future
- halavais: RT @mattthomas: Every time I’m confronted by the Chronicle of Higher Education’s paywall I am reminded of why I switched to reading Insi ...
Monthly Archives: November 2008
Hello, world
Jasper Lyle Campbell Halavais, welcome to the world.
(Lesson one, your dad sucks with a camera.)
A farewell to academia
There is a scathing elegiac on modern higher ed written by a departing mid-career professor that appears in Inside HigherEd.
After too many years at this job (I am in my mid-40s), I have grown to question higher education in ways that cannot be rectified by a new syllabus, or a sabbatical, or, heaven forbid, a [...]
Intro Cyberculture Syllabus (Rough!)
So, I somehow “volunteered” to create a new course at the undergraduate level, to be offered (mainly) as a service course–i.e., not to our majors, but as part of a humanities breadth requirement. I’ve appropriated the term “cyberculture,” though I probably mean cyberpunkish. This is a very rough draft–I’ve just shared it with my colleagues, [...]
Professor Wikipedi
A reasonably interesting send up of Wikipedia:
See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.
Home Hologram Setup
So, you know what the big news from this week is: the CNN holograms. “Help me Wolf Blitzer, you’re my only hope.” In class last night we talked a little about this, and how hard it would be to get one of these things to play with. Well, I contend, not as hard as it [...]
Search Engine Society Review