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Making phones work

Carolyn Marvin quotes the following account in her (excellent) When Old Technologies Were New about a farmer’s encounter with the newfangled telephone (p. 20): He then rolled up the paper and tried to push it in the aperture in the transmitter. Failing in his attempt with his finger, he took his lead pencil and jammed […]
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So, the cyberporn class was going to be simple. You know: daily lectures and a bunch of bubble-tests. But now, I am weighing which tech elements to include, and there will probably be a lot. The trick is, what I learn by using these technologies will end up becoming how I teach in every class… […]
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Dead brain batteries

Boing boing has already covered this, but it turns out that if you connect a low amprage charge across the front of the scalp, you end up able to recall words more quickly. I see no reason to wait for any further testing. I’m going out and buying some digital watch batteries today! What’s the […]
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Realtime, really

Justin Hall is talking about realtime technologies in real world teaching environments. One of the experiments he has done with the grad students is setting up EtherPEG and broadcasting to the room what images are being viewed by people in the classroom. He suggests that he wants to do the same thing with AIM. That […]
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