WTF is Social Media?
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 [...]
paying attention!
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 [...]
Sarah
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
Dali & Disney
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 [...]
addicted?
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 [...]
a new blogging routine, take 2
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 [...]
the relationship between tweet and blog
As an early adopter of both blogging and Twitter, I feel that these two mediums complement each other quite well, especially in terms of self-promotion, although it’s been clear that my tweeting has often led to a complete disregard and neglect of my blog. See “Is Twitter a Blog Breaker or a Blog Builder” for [...]
light as air
As I type this I’m waiting for the Fed Ex truck to arrive with my new lil mac. Unfortunately, I won’t be opening the box and getting straight to work/play. Yesterday’s Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference announced many changes and upgrades as well as reduced prices. I immediately turned to my Twitter network and asked: “so [...]
love Federer
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 [...]
musical heroes
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 [...]
more teaching with Twitter
A supplement to my post from earlier this week, with the full write up available here. This is great to have now b/c my summer ENG 101 course starts on Monday and after watching this video students will be able to see how, while it can get “messy”, using Twitter during our short semester will [...]
Twitter in Time
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 [...]
Carolyn Ellis + autoethnography
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 [...]
Twittering profs
Keeping up with this “hero” theme is going to be difficult on days when I want to talk about social media best practices, but oh well… Check out the following links for some uses of Twitter in and out the classroom, from USNews&World Report [with the teacher's reflections posted here], the Bedford Bits blog, and [...]
FY,YFF
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 [...]
NaBloPoMo
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 [...]
My 15 tweets of fame
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.
we live in public
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 [...]
online influence
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.”
CCCC09 link roundup & SIG promotion
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 [...]
a focus on Twitter
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 [...]
Using Twitter
This week I was officially awarded a Professional Development Grant, which will make my travel to San Fran for 4Cs much easier on the wallet. I’m also 1 week away from receiving final exam essays from the students I asked to start Twitter accounts. Their responses will be the basis of my presentation, and I [...]
interfere with the interface
no mo' NaBloPoMo :(
Haven’t been feeling 100% and as a result, I forgot to blog last week. Will have to try NaBloPoMo again in December! I’ve got the rest of the semester all planned out, but I think my body is telling me that I need Thanksgiving break NOW! Must catch up on grading and prepare for all [...]
The Tsunami & Social Media
Yet again a TED talk that justifies and re-inspires my work with Katrina bloggers. According to James Surowiecki, the blogophere came of age with the Tsunami, with blogs offering “a more complete and powerful picture of what happened.”