Author Archives: alex
The Privacy Trade Myth
Cory Doctorow has a new essay in Technology Review entitled “The Curious Case of Internet Privacy”. He begins by outlining the idea of “the trade” an idea he rightly suggests has risen to the level of myth. “The trade” is simply that you are permitted to use a system like Facebook for free, and in […]
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ELD12 Presentation: More on Badges
I promise to stop going on and on about badges shortly. But I’m presenting tomorrow morning at the Emerging Learning Design conference. Figured I would share my slides, though I have not figured out quite how to cut five minutes from this yet. ELD12: Badge Design View another webinar from halavais Edit: Hmmm. Slideshare is […]
Badgepost Failures
I just realized I told some folks on a phone call that the recent post indicated some of my failures in using badges, but it didn’t really. I would deem it generally a very high success, and will continue to use badges in all my classes. With rare exceptions, students have been pretty enthusiastic (with […]
On teaching at Quinnipiac