Posted in 3491, 3492, 3493, 3494, 3490, 3489, the, a, 3458, General on Aug 1st, 2008 Comments Off
Inspired (nudged, prompted) by a recent e-mail from Janet, I’m trying to catch up with that builder and curator of a cabinet of wonders who calls himself Michael Wesch. Watching him and his work is like watching a time-lapse photograph of the Empire State Building going up. Every morning a new story appears. Amazing.
So this […]
Posted in 3478, 2720, 3479, 3480, 3482, 3481, 3426, 3159, mind, the, and, a, 2731, 2861, General on Jul 23rd, 2008 Comments Off
Not quite the day-after report I’d hoped to make, but as we’ve discussed recently in the Milton seminar, time is a difficult dimension that consistently weighs on Milton’s mind and ours. So later and briefer than I’d like, here are my thoughts.
The evening was magical as ever. This surprised me a bit, truth to tell, […]
Posted in 3472, 3471, 3470, 3469, 3473, 3474, 3477, 3476, 3475, 3468, 3467, a, the, my, , 2722, 3466, 3465, 3464, General on Jul 6th, 2008 Comments Off
Final at UMW under my supervision, that is. It may happen again at my next post, and for all I know the Miltonist who succeeds me at the University of Mary Washington may be just ambitious, idealistic, and nutty enough to want to keep the tradition going. Time will tell. (Yes, I will blog about […]
Posted in 3450, 3451, 3449, 3448, 3447, 3452, 3453, 3457, 3458, 3456, 3455, 3454, 3446, 3445, marathon, a, conference, the, my, 2892, 3099, 3444, 3443, 3442, 3314, General on Jun 14th, 2008 Comments Off
Inspired by Alan’s post–and amazed he’s not in a coma after the high-energy marathon of the NMC annual conference just concluded–I offer my own Wordle del.icio.us tag cloud. Jonathan Feinberg has built a compelling visualization tool that can generate a tag cloud from del.icio.us or a word cloud from any text. (I just saw an […]
Posted in 3424, 3423, 3425, 3426, 3428, 3427, 3422, 3421, and, my, a, 2754, 3420, 3256, General on May 29th, 2008 Comments Off
Given my love of metaphor, juxtaposibility, and “mappingness” (to say nothing of my love of oddball neologisms), I have to report on a particularly intriguing juxtaposition I found for my talk at the 2008 CHEMA meeting in Louisville last week. As I was finishing my prep for the talk, I’d pretty much settled on beginning […]
Posted in 3415, 3414, 3413, 3416, 3417, means, 3419, 3418, 3412, 3411, a, the, Audio, 3406, 3407, 3410, 3409, 3408, General on May 19th, 2008 Comments Off
Promising new functionality from ITConversations: one can build a URL that will excerpt a portion of the recorded audio. I’m testing it here:
[audio clip]
The only hitch in the get-along is the requirement to specify a start time “after the intro.” As a former ITConversations post-production audio editor, I reckon this means after the show theme, […]
Posted in 3366, 3365, 3364, 3363, 3367, 3368, 3372, 3371, 3370, 3369, 3362, 3361, lives, the, post, article, today, and, a, 2757, an, General on Feb 24th, 2008 Comments Off
Today’s Washington Post features an unusually fine article from Joel Garreau (registration required) concerning the ways in which cellphones have changed, and continue to transform, our lives as a species on this planet. Twenty-five years of cellphone technology have brought us to the point that Google CEO Eric Schmidt can say, “Eventually there will be […]
Posted in 3235, 3082, 2993, 2735, 3354, 3355, 3358, 3357, 3356, 2966, 2962, reading, blog, posts, the, today, a, and, inspiring, General on Feb 21st, 2008 Comments Off
The Intro. to New Media Studies class today was pretty explosive. I had assigned excerpts in The New Media Reader from McLuhan’s Gutenberg Galaxy and The Medium is the Message. I was up this morning about 5, reading some insightful and tremendously inspiring blog posts from the class. A couple of the posts were especially […]
Posted in 3348, 3347, 3346, 3349, 3350, 3353, 3352, 3351, 3345, 3344, a, an, the, 2922, 3316, 3343, 3342, General on Feb 19th, 2008 Comments Off
So write Alan Kay and Adele Goldberg.
Corollaries:
An introduction to New Media Studies is a metacourse.
The third pitch we throw had better be a metapitch.
The metalevel is the most generative level, the most frustratingly inexact level, the most emergent level, the level where experts and beginners can have interesting meetings. It can be a wide-eyed level, […]
Posted in 3339, 3340, 3341, 3338, a, learning, post, the, General on Feb 18th, 2008 Comments Off
A too-brief follow-on to the previous post:
I would much rather see learning objects in a container like David Wiley’s course than in any CMS (I refuse to call them LMS’s–just my little gesture of protest) I’ve ever seen, for all the reasons everyone’s pointed out.
That said, I am still not enthusiastic about the “content” and […]