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Students in my Technologies and the Future of Writing module of Introduction to Writing Arts are designing their own information ecologies. These ecologies are comprised of: their own spaces on the Rowan University servers a collaborative blog hosted by Wordpress a netvibes.com ecosystem a social bookmarking site (delicious or diigo) The main question they will be considering is: How can [...]
Continue reading "composing ecologies."September 21, 2007
Today, as part of International Day of Peace activities, Rowan University’s College of Fine Arts hosted an exhibition of Pinwheels for Peace (1 of 4 such exhibitions in Glassboro, NJ) on the lawn between Science and Westby Halls. This non-political organization aims to provide an alternative to the violent images that bombard children via TV, video [...]
Continue reading "(re)composing landscapes."September 8, 2007
Several weeks ago I downloaded a screen and video capture tool called Jing after reading about it on Jeff VanDrimmelen’s Educause blog. I thought I would use it to create instructional videos for my students who were having trouble following the school’s online instructions for connecting to the school servers from home. This weekend I [...]
--> Continue reading "jing and screencast."August 29, 2007
Two years ago today and the days following my wife and I, as many did, watched with horror and rage as New Orleans flooded and thousands were left to try and survive. Several thousand residents took shelter in Austin, and Aimee and I did what we did to help: we went to Costco and bought [...]
Continue reading "remembering katrina."
September 21, 2007
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