Hapgood

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

  • The answer to the legal objections

    The hardest thing to answer when you’re trying to start an institutional blogging community is what the legal ramifications of it are. It’s not only hard to answer — it’s impossible. It’s a legal question. You’re not supposed to answer it. The problem is that it’s hard with this sort of thing to start from… Continue reading

  • Fantasy Congress and the usefulness of wrong models

    So, deciding I had not reached my full geek potential, last night I started a league in Fantasy Congress. Fantasy Congress is like Fantasy Football — you pick a team out of all available members of Congress and the Senate, and during a specified season your team competes — if my Senators “stats” (for legislation… Continue reading

  • Our responsibility

    So, like the WordPress junkie I am, I’ve been trying to recruit other Keene Staters here into my fold. Trying to get me some co-bloggers. And so it was I broke the will of one Jenny Darrow, who leads and implements much of the Academic IT initiatives over here. Her first posts are up and… Continue reading

  • This is your Italian course. This is your Italian course on WordPress.

    Some day I’ll get tired of admitting how far ahead of the pack UMW is. Today is not that day. So to paraphrase that guy with the egg… This is your Italian course: And this is your Italian course on WordPress: Click the above image to check out a module a UMW Italian professor put… Continue reading

  • A meager start

    OK, we’re not godlike. We ain’t Jim Groom. But we are launching our own WordPress MU intitiative: KeeneWeb. Our particular angle is going to be less academic, and more creating community on campus, community outreach, and (hopefully) getting some tradmed attention. We have some really talented people on our campus, it’s just hard for the… Continue reading

  • The Parable of the Thingamajig

    We are reaching the end of our evaluation process here on my eportfolio committee. So in a month of impassioned pleas, I hope y’all forgive me one more. This is the last push. But I want to do it this time by telling a story. I want us to pretend it is 1985, and we… Continue reading

  • Announcing the Learning 2.0 Pecha Kucha Contest

    Heard of Pecha-Kucha? It’s poetry slam for the design crowd. Haiku for the business world. It’s the solution to Death by Powerpoint. Here’s the rules: Each pecha-kucha participant delivers a PowerPoint presentation Each presentation must comprise of 20 slides, no more, no less Each slide must be displayed for exactly 20 seconds Consequently, each presentation… Continue reading

  • The SmallWonder arrives

    We want to go guerrilla video over here, and inspired by the Stanford ePortfolio crowd, we got a couple of SmallWonder cameras from TigerDirect. The idea is that they are less intrusive than a traditional camera, more portable, and easier to use, and that sets the video threshold to a level where people are more… Continue reading

  • The college as student/project matchmaker

    What would happen if instead of encouraging students to build yet another fake bookstore project we had encouraged them to write wikiscanner? They’d have changed the world, that’s what. What if instead of having statistics students take multiple choice tests on data analysis we had them examine earmarks or deficit spending using ManyEyes? They’d change… Continue reading

  • Giving your students a toolbelt

    UMW has put together a tools section for incoming freshmen and new faculty. The idea is to present to them six free low-threshold tools which will be their tools of the trade for the years to come. The tools are: Firefox, WordPress, del.icio.us, Google Docs, Google Reader, and Flickr. As much as I like to… Continue reading