I had pretty much made my peace with being an ex-blogger. It’s been a year since the last time I posted to this blog, and, even that last post was just a speculation about the wisdom of amateurs running their own servers. For the previous four years, the blog had been center of my…
Category: Blogs and Wikis
Words You’d Rather Not Hear
All of us have certain words we’d rather not hear: “Hi Dad, I’m using my one phone call…” “I think it’s important that you get to the cardiologist’s office this afternoon…” “Um, about that money you invested with Bernie Madoff….” I’ve added the following: “I gave him the url to your blog….” I still believe…
Expanding Research Through Open Notebook Science
IT Conversations | Jon Udell’s Interviews with Innovators | Jean-Claude Bradley He believes that scientific research happens better and faster when the entire process is transparently narrated online. New social tools can have a tremendous impact on teaching, learning and research. The emergence of Open Notebook Science has the potential of speeding up the diffusion…
Writing Strategically (Part Two)
This is a quick follow-up to my last post about choosing a writing strategy for your for your blog. In the last post, I talked about treating your blog as an a forum to explore all the interesting things that you learn about through the web, reading, conversations, and all the other sources of information…
Tying Up the Loose Ends of Your Digital Identity
re.web – The William & Mary Web Redesign Andy DeSoto, a junior psychology major at William and Mary, has written a guide for students (and faculty) on how to use the new Tribe Voices tool to manage their presence on the web. He argues that a small investment of time can yield big benefits in…
Open Notebook Science
Science 2.0: Great New Tool, or Great Risk?: Scientific American M. Mitchell Waldrop’s excellent introduction to “open notebook” science in Scientific American fits nicely with some of the work we’re doing to support the Charles Center’s initiative on expanding undergraduate research at the College. My class last semester helped plan a web site that will…
Welcome to the New Semester
Gardner Writes >> My New Year’s Blogging Resolutions I love to walk around the campus on the first day of the new semester. From the snippets of conversation it’s obvious that many students have a genuine sense of excitement about the new things they’ll learn, the books they’ll be reading and the people that they’ll…
You Are Who the Search Engines Say You Are
I’ve been looking for an reason to get back to blogging, and spending some time with Jon Udell at the Educause Seminars for Academic Computing helped provide the motivation to stop looking and start posting. In a presentation on disruptive technologies, Jon made the point that, for all practical purposes, you are who Google says…
Wikipedia Coverage of the Virginia Tech Tragedy
The Latest on Virginia Tech, From Wikipedia – New York Times: “” According to a recent article in the New York Times, the Wikipedia served as “an essential news source for hundreds of thousands of people on the Internet trying to understand the shootings at Virginia Tech University. The Times reports that at least 2074…
Wikipedia Article Challenges Blackboard Patent Claims
History of virtual learning environments – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Word that I have stopped blogging because I’ve been curled up in the fetal position in response to Ted Stevens tubes speech and the moronic decision by the US Patent office to give BlackBoard a patent on virtual learning environments is not quite true. I’ve…
