Building on their prior release, which they called Coltrane, Wordpress 2.8 is named Baker after Jazz legend Chat Baker. I really enjoy how they are equating blogging and jazz. See video for the many cool updates.
Continue reading "wordpress releases version 2.8."June 10, 2009
In June 2008 I received a grant for 20 Flip Video Cameras (.pdf) to be used in one of the required courses in the Writing Arts undergraduate major at Rowan, “Writing, Research, and Technology.” The general goal of the course was to extend traditional conceptions of composition by applying it to the medium of video. [...]
Continue reading "6 recommendations for teaching with the flip video camera."June 10, 2009
There has been much discussion lately about how Twitter is being used in the undergraduate classroom. Daisy Pignetti describes how she used Twitter in 3 sections (2 online, 1 in person) of English 102 at the University of Wisconsin-Stout. Monica Rankin discusses how she implemented what she has described as the “Twitter Experiment” into a [...]
Continue reading "using twitter in the graduate classroom."June 4, 2009
Reading the speech Obama gave this morning in Cairo was like reading all of complex, elusive, and often conflicting ideas that I have had for quite a while about the relationships among Christians, Muslims, and Jews. How refreshing to hear them coming from a president of the United States and not only whispered by friends [...]
Continue reading "wordles of obama’s cairo speech."May 25, 2009
Over the last few months I have grown dissatisfied with my current layout, which is based off of the Wordpress Laila 2.0 theme. The primary reason is that I don’t think it reflects the dynamic nature of the work my students are doing, nor does it provide access to the multiple spaces that my students [...]
Continue reading "switching wordpress themes: the process begins."May 24, 2009
I just got some of the best and potentially most fun conference news I’ve had in a while. My abstract, “Of Queens and Candy Aisles: Desire, Decaying Society, and the Literary Tradition of ‘Queen of the Supermarket,’” has been one of 140 papers accepted for the 2009 conference: Glory Days: A Bruce Springsteen Symposium (Sept [...]
Continue reading "presenting at the bruce springsteen conference."May 20, 2009
Before the spring semester started this past January I was interviewed by Eileen Stutzbach for Rowan University’s Techcast—a video podcast that showcases what is happening technology-wise at Rowan. I was asked to talk about how I am using Web 2.0 applications in my writing courses. In the below except from the Spring 2009 show I [...]
Continue reading "using web 2.0 in the writing classroom."May 13, 2009
Ryancordell asked me to say a few words about teaching tagging to my students and I am very happy to do so. I have been trying to figure out how to teach tagging to my graduate and undergraduate students since I began using Diigo several years ago. Actually, after I finished presenting a paper at the [...]
Continue reading "teaching students how to create meaningful tags."March 17, 2009
This is the first time I’ve made a tournament bracket. I have no idea what I’m doing. I don’t really like basketball, but I do think the college game is better than the NBA. At least they play defense. So, here are my picks. I expect to be completely wrong, but it should be fun [...]
Continue reading "my 2009 ncaa tournament picks."March 5, 2009
We began Information Architecture this semester by looking at the construction of language through the use of metaphors. Earlier I posted about the metaphors we use during class discussion. Today on Twitter @DocMara pointed to an excellent documentary by Honda that investigates the idea of failure in the innovation process. It seems that Honda has [...]
Continue reading "honda’s metaphor: kicking out the ladder."February 26, 2009
One of the main goals of my courses is for students to reflect on what they are learning as they are going through the process of completing an assignment. That goal has in the past been fulfilled by Learning Record Observations, which are 3 – 5 sentence snapshots students write about the work students are [...]
Continue reading "what students learned completing the youtube project."February 25, 2009
This semester in my Writing, Research, and Technology course students are learning how to create idea-driven video compositions. The larger project is to create a video oral history on an important contemporary topic. To help students get familiar with the Flip Ultra video camera we’re using, as well as learn some of the basics of [...]
Continue reading "“what does youtube mean to you?”: my students’ videos."
June 11, 2009
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