October 11, 2009 – 5:49 pm
Created by The Oatmeal I knew my score would go up once the semester and conferences began!
September 29, 2009 – 3:34 pm
These three videos have gotten the most discussion started in my 101 class which focuses solely on technology, literacy, and life on a laptop campus:
August 29, 2009 – 10:12 am
I’ve been sharing Katrina-related links on FB and Twitter all morning, but now can’t think of anything to say. I’ve become numb remembering all of this again, even with it as my dissertation topic and therefore something I think about ALL THE TIME. That writing, though, is focused on the positive, the uses of technology [...]
August 26, 2009 – 3:25 am
All I can say is that the posts have been few and far between b/c I’m writing in a much more important space, my dissertation document! Still, it’s weird that I write about blogs all day and night but haven’t blogged much at all since the loss of access to my USF blog. I think [...]
As we all know, technology advances very quickly and the uses of certain sites evolves even faster. What I like most about these 2 slideshows is that its topic has taken that speed and reach into consideration and made some intriguing updates. What The F**K is Social Media? View more documents from Marta Kagan. and [...]
I don’t have my notes nearby from when I read the amazing Cynthia Selfe’s Technology and Literacy in the Twenty-First Century: The Importance of Paying Attention but I do recall that book making a significant impact on how I approached teaching with technology, even way back in 2004 when I thought blogs were the biggest [...]
Thank you, Trina, for posting the links to all this Sarah coverage. The WWL video and NOLA.com story are not to miss; neither is this inspirational talk by Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor
I can’t believe this is online! Bet it won’t be for long…Being a frequent visitor to the Dali Museum in St. Pete, FL I know how strict they are with their collections. I almost didn’t get to view this film there because of their schedule but was with a pushy friend at the time who [...]
Created by The Oatmeal I will definitely take this quiz again once I’m back on campus daily and preaching the gospel of Twitter to my freshman. Having read last semester’s course evaluations, I think many students liked the community built by sharing random 140-character spurts, but a few didn’t like that 10% of their grade [...]
Let’s try this NaBloPoMo thing again! June ended up being a busy travel month even though I was only out of town for 7 days, and I also went down hard with allergies. It being my first summer in Wisconsin, I’m learning about all sorts of new climate changes, wind gusts, and pollens. But enough [...]
I’ve never picked up a racket, but somehow got in to watching tennis when I was young. I had the teenage crush on Andre Agassi and then fell for this young Swiss, Roger. I couldn’t be more happy for him as now he’s finally won the French Open and joins Pete Sampras on a record [...]
Somehow think I’m co-opting the term “hero” for what is actual fandom, but who cares! The Pet Shop Boys are heroes of mine because they continue to impress me with intellectual lyrics and catchy melodies. Their latest album, Yes, is the first once since Very that I HAVE to play over and over again, which [...]
Without these guys, I’d not have much to talk about these days. As someone I’m following on Twitter said today, “wow…Time magazine actually *gets* Twitter. how odd.” But they do get it, and this statement from Steven Johnson’s essay “How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live” says it all: “In short, the most fascinating [...]
A true hero of mine, and former prof, Carolyn Ellis, has been on my mind lately b/c I’m re-working the third chapter of my dissertation. This is going to be the longest one b/c of its defining of methods and then the data itself. I’ve been moving a lot of information around but I believe [...]
A blogging hero, Ashley Morris, became best known for this post written 3 months after Katrina. So many comments, so representative of the seemingly indescribable trauma Hurricane Katrina brought on to so many New Orleanians like myself. Read this Chris Rose column,“We’ll miss the blogger next door” [and the comments left under it] to learn [...]
Being that it’s June 1st and I’ve neglected my blog for too long, I’ve decided to attempt completing NaBloPoMo this month. The theme is “heroes,” which should tie in with my dissertation writing about Hurricane Katrina survivor bloggers, right? To get the ball rolling I thought I would share a story that’s got a few [...]
April 10, 2009 – 10:40 am
The brief story is here–you’d think my spoken word could’ve been edited for grammar & style, huh? Also, go here and here to read about other great uses of Twitter in the classroom.
April 10, 2009 – 10:02 am
We Live In Public TRAILER from We Live in Public on Vimeo. This film looks amazing, in that freaky kind of way. “The Truman Show for everyone” [and don't get me started on how great that Philip Glass PBS documentary was] describes We Live in Public as a “90-minute documentary about the Internet pioneer-turned performance [...]
March 29, 2009 – 11:48 am
Might these 2 be connected? and “Pupils to study Twitter and blogs in primary schools shake-up” which reveals that children in the UK are “to leave primary school familiar with blogging, podcasts, Wikipedia and Twitter as sources of information and forms of communication.”
March 29, 2009 – 11:31 am
I’m sure I will edit this post to include more links later, but I’ve had several tabs open for the past few weeks and then yesterday received an email from the Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives with the link to my video contribution. So here we go: Devon’s post on my CCCC Presentation: A(Re)mediating Social [...]
While I created this new site over a month ago, I’ve wasted some time trying to gain access to my former blog’s content, particularly the “social software” category. It looks like I may just recreate some of those posts here, as I’ve decided to make the primary focus of this space to track the use [...]
