Link to: NPR : Finding Happiness in a Harvard Classroom Interesting NPR piece on Harvard’s most popular course–Psychology 1504: Positive Psychology. Over 900 students take the course which is offered in a Harvard theater. While some question the “fluffiness” of the course, and its appropriateness as a full credit offering at Harvard, others see a…
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e-Literate: Video Literacy
Link to: e-Literate: Video Literacy I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how to use rich media in courses that traditionally have been print oriented. My own background in media–both audio and video–is pretty weak, so I don’t have much of the grammar and vocabulary to think as effectively about the possibilities as I might….
Blackboard Joins the Read/Write Web
I have to admit that I’ve become a bit of a BlackBoard slacker lately, even though a very large number of our faculty use it extensively. The open world of blogs, wikis and the read/write web has been much more intriguing to me than the black hole of BlackBoard. My slackerness will change pretty dramatically…
Another Glimpse into the Future?
Link To: Weblogg-ed – The Read/Write Web in the Classroom One of the themes I’ve been returning to often is that the K-12 teachers in the trenches are shaping the future for those of us in higher education to a far greater extent than most of us in the college and university arena realize. Here’s…
Example of Social Software in Action
CogDogBlog » Blog Archive » Social Software In Action (no real software required) I’ve often used the example of how quickly and effectively Larry Lessig’s book Free Culture was remixed into a dozen different forms. If I remember correctly, the audio version was available within a weekend after AKMA suggested splitting up the chapters and…
Can Blogging be Serious and Experimental?
Link to: Inside Higher Ed :: Serious Bloggers This piece by Wayne State assistant professor Jeff Rice, who blogs as Yellow Dog, highlights the chilling effect that articles like the Chronicle’s Bloggers Need Not Apply and the Business Week cover story Attack of the Blogs have had on academic bloggers. Even academics who are attracted…
The Ends of Education
There have been a number of thought provoking comments on one of Rachel‘s recent posts on a paper she’s working on that focuses on what it means for a New Media Center or other organization to “have an impact on campus.” Gardner commented on the original post asking: Hmmm. What *does* it mean to have…
A Little Wabi Sabi Please
Link To: Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: Wikipedia and open source As the debate on the accuracy of the Wikipedia goes on, I am reminded about the wiki:wabi sabi world view ( the appreciation of the beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete). Nicholas Carr, of IT should become boring, fame, continues to stir things…
Limitations of the Education Industry
Link to: CogDogBlog » Blog Archive » The Dissonance of “Blogs in Education” There’s lots to chew on in this post from the CogDogBlog. Seems like the whole crew at the Northern Voices conference got their juices flowing and there are more provocative ideas floating around than I can absorb. I think Alan’s discomfort with…
NPR : Blogging: A Blight or a Boon to Marriage?
Link to: NPR : Blogging: A Blight or a Boon to Marriage? Here’s an cute commentary on family blogging by Julie Zickefoose on All Things Considered. A naturalist, writer and commentator, she blogs at http://www.juliezickefoose.com/blog/index.php. Her use of images in her diary is pretty impressive. Thanks to Norman Elton, Network Engineer Outstandacus, for the link.
