Category Archives: Technology

Another non-course

By alex | Published: 12/2/2010
Chatting with the program director tonight over dinner, I discovered that my “Locative and Mobile” course is unlikely to “make”–just not enough student interest. This despite efforts to poll the students and move toward something they wanted. Really disappointing, since this was the course I was most looking forward to working on next semester. Luckily, [...]
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What makes up a badge?

By alex | Published: 12/2/2010
One of the discussions I was particularly excited about at the Barcelona Drumbeat Festival was using badges to indicate certain skills, abilities, capacities, traits, or accomplishments. The idea here is what you might find in Boy Scout merit badges, or Foursquare badges, or Stack Overflow badges: a quick way to see what a person knows, [...]
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Mozilla Drumbeat: Enter the Lizard

By alex | Published: 11/16/2010
Who knew so much could be packed into so few hours. I’ve spent the last week burrowing out from things that piled up while I was in Barcelona at the Mozilla Drumbeat festival, an event dedicated to creating a learning web. Over this period, some things have marinated a bit, and so this is not [...]
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Maker Faire 2010

By alex | Published: 9/28/2010
Maker Faire was anything but a let-down. I think it would be fair to say it felt like going to Disneyland for geeks. (Presuming, for the moment, that Disneyland isn’t Disneyland for geeks.) I shot the short video above for one of my classes. Since I didn’t really do credits, here’s some linkage to some [...]
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Participatory black boxes

By alex | Published: 9/9/2010
Every time I see the mention of digital natives or the assumed proficiency of those who have grown up with digital technologies, it irks me a little. It’s not that I disagree–not exactly. This came up in a discussion we’re having in my seminar on participatory learning, and I found myself having to try to [...]
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In whose name?

By alex | Published: 7/22/2010
Each semester, I ask students to blog publicly. There are many who argue that this is the only way to blog, and although I am not that extreme, I do think it has particular advantages. That said, there are good reasons for and against blogging in your own name. For students who are unsure, I [...]
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Video Annotating Socially

By alex | Published: 7/9/2010
You may not have heard about the Video Annotation Socially (VAS) system yet* and so I figured I would try to provide a quick overview. VAS is basically a way to make comments on a video. If you’ve used the commenting feature on Viddler or on YouTube, you get the general idea, and VAS can [...]
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