Hapgood

Mike Caulfield's latest web incarnation. Networked Learning, Open Education, and Online Digital Literacy

July 2007

  • Twittergram Rock: Last Time You Were Here

    So, this was impromptu, but if twitter history is ever written I want credit for writing the first 40 second song explicitly for twittergram. http://tinyurl.com/2s8oee I’ll get better. It’s a new format for me. Continue reading

  • Inverted LMS Revisited: The various uses of containers

    Gardner Writes has a good critique of of my Inverted LMS post, which raises a number of important issues. So let’s say first I am both manifesto-prone and conversation-addicted, and those things generally equal out. This is conversation Mike speaking. The question Gardner poses is whether “student-centered” swings too far in the other direction: But Continue reading

  • ISA, HASA, and the Inverted LMS

    I’ve been out of linguistics for so long that I don’t know if this is still the case, but it used to be there was a distinction in some branches of cognitive linguistics between what programmers might recognize as ISA and HASA relations. The idea is this: a giraffe “isa” animal. The zoo “hasa” giraffe. Continue reading

  • Offline thinking

    I get a wave of nostalgia when I read a John LeCarre novel. Not for the simplicity of Cold War politics or for spy novels written with a real sense of literary style, but for the physicality of the world George Smiley inhabits. Trying to figure out a particular thorny problem, he grabs a notebook, Continue reading