Monthly Archives: July 2009

EPIC (fail) 2014

Leigh Blackall’s recent post is well worth a read, but a tangential matter in it struck me. It references the 2004 video EPIC 2014. It’s a video that has been floating around for four years or so, and is still … Continue reading

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Persona Creep

I’m back, and once again trying to figure out whether I need to centralize my online persona, which has spread rather thin across multiple projects. In any case, you might want to subscribe to one of the following tags in … Continue reading

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New Media Impact for Future Professors

It seems really impolite to disagree with someone on the source of their own fame, and more than a little presumptuous. Probably a bit foolish as well. But the recent story in the Chronicle can’t be allowed to go unanswered. … Continue reading

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Judge Bans Catcher in the Rye Sequel

Via NYT, last week: Mr. Colting’s lawyers argued, among other things, that the new novel, titled “60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye,” did not violate copyright laws because it amounted to a critical parody that had the effect of … Continue reading

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Have you got a 27B-stroke-6?

Edupunk vs. EduIT in a nutshell? I tend to see Jim Groom as Harry Tuttle. But YMMV. I’d probably trust Tony Hirst more with plumbing.

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Self-expression and Participation

I came across Nina Simon’s Self-Expression is Overrated: Better Constraints Make Better Participatory Experiences via @jonmott, and I have to say it is one of the better meditations on teaching in a participatory culture that I’ve read. The main premise … Continue reading

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