On March, 10, I led a workshop at Rowan entitled 6 7 Recommendations for Using Flip (and other) Video Cameras in the (non-video) Classroom. The workshop was offered as part of the terms of a grant I received to be able to purchase 20 Flip Video cameras for my spring 2009 section of Writing, [...]
My Recent Tweets with MUST READ Links
- This ain't good. (And if this storm had been snow, it would have brought almost 5 FEET.) http://twitpic.com/18fvrl March 13, 2010
- RT @barbarahui: RT @THATCampSoCal: Occidental is looking for a few digital scholarship postdocs http://bit.ly/d0q64b /via @ddchamberlain March 13, 2010
- RT @johnmjones: Allfie Kohn on educational standards: http://bit.ly/bg9exJ via @catinstack <-- Alfie Kohn is great and is right about this March 12, 2010
September 11, 2009
As readers know, I am quite interested in Wordles and how they challenge out understanding of texts. I thought it would be interesting to create a Wordle of the tweets posted with the #0n911 hashtag. To gather the tweets, I tried to use Yahoo Pipes so I could filter out common operation words that Twitter [...]
Continue reading "wordles of the #on911 hashtag: a brief analysis."September 11, 2009
Many TV and radio pundits have mentioned that this is the first 9/11 anniversary for President Obama and are scrutinizing his every statement, bowed head, and solemn look. But this 8th anniversary of 9/11 also marks the first anniversary of the event on Twitter. Or, more correctly, it marks the first time when Twitter has [...]
Continue reading "what the web looked like on 9/11."August 14, 2009
Those who follow my Twitter stream know that I have been working on a play. I started on it toward the end of August, 2008, writing a variety of scenes in no particular order or overall understanding of just what the play was going to be about. I had lots of ideas, so I tried [...]
Continue reading "shingles, act 1, open for comments."July 27, 2009
This semester in Writing for Electronic Communities I would like to try a collaborative writing assignment that uses a wiki or GoogleDocs. I’ve never done a collaborative writing assignment before. The assignment would have the following goals: introduce students to wikis and/or Google Docs as a collaborative writing space as distinguished from blogging and micro-blogging challenge students’ [...]
Continue reading "possible collaborative writing assignment for grad class."
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