November 2007
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Maura
October 2007
Bytes in Space →
DaliAnalysis - Dali Analysis Analyzing Some of... →
Orna
Geocaching in NJ - →
Catherine
revathi.edu - Web Usability →
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Stephanie
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Teaching and Learning with New Media →
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That's Fair Use. I think. Probably.
I found a post on the Digital Digs blog that pointed me to a report from the American
University’s Center for Social Media
called “The Cost of Copyright Confusion for Media Literacy.” The Center based its report on interviews with 63
educators. Here’s an issue that cerainly bridges the two education worlds that we call K-20. And the results
aren’t good. Educators at the...
Terrance Hayes: Two Poems in The Same City
This blog post allows me a little room to expand on the prompt for November that uses Terrance Hayes’ poem. I have to admit that I did not first read this poem. I had it read to me, which happens more and more these days. No, I didn’t go to a reading (though I did hear him read at the 2006 Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival) I heard him read it on a podcast from the Poetry...
Is your campus converging?
Does your institution’s convergence plan look like Jackson Pollock’s painting
“Convergence”? One thing I always talk about whenever I do presentations on podcasting and
iTunes U is using it as an entry into mobile computing. However, anyone who knows the live version of me knows that I
don’t get real excited about cell phones. The launch of the Apple iPhone was...
Grad Student eCenter for NJIT MS PTC Students →
a collection of important links for students in the MS PTC program at NJIT
Podcasting Made Easier
If your school has been considering entering
the world of educational podcasting and you’re searching for answers and guidance, I have to recommend a 3 webinar series from Higher Ed Experts that will be offered next week. Full disclosure: I’m doing one
of the three webinars, so, yes, 1/3 self-promotion. The series kicks off on November 6 from 1PM-2PM ET
with “Podcasting...
E-Learning Pick of the Day
It’s good that others are keeping up on things because I am falling behind. I haven’t posted much lately about
e-learning, but Jane Hart of the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies posts her E-Learning Pick of the Day - a daily
item of e-learning interest. She was smart to narrow her blog’s focus. With all the categories I have here, there are
still things that I...
An Emotion Machine Perhaps As Smart AS A Child
I’m watching (well, more like listening) to a video from MIT of Marvin Minsky talking about his book, Emotion Machine: Commonsense Thinking,
Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of the Human Mind. He is one of the founders of the field of artificial
intelligence, and helped establish in 1959 what would become the MIT AI Lab. Marvin Minsky is here critical of many current
researchers...
From The Latin Educare
Another post inspired by a podcast (but not about podcasting). People who see me walking around with my iPod never
really believe me that my little Shuffle never has any music on it. It’s my podcast device. Pure audio. Really, I’m
working. I was catching up with some conference podcasts in
iTunes from last summer’s Building Learning Communities 2007 Conference. The one...
BLC podcast notes
Another post inspired by a podcast (but not about podcasting). People who see me walking around with my iPod never
really believe me that my little Shuffle never has any music on it. It’s my podcast device. Pure audio. Really, I’m
working. I was catching up with some conference podcasts in iTunes from last summer’s Building Learning Communities 2007 Conference.
The one...
6 Possible Things Before Breakfast
“Alice laughed: “There’s no use trying,” she said; “one can’t believe impossible things.” “I daresay you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was younger, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” Alice in Wonderland Woke up a...
No One Reads That Stuff
I’ve seen a few posts the past month by edtech bloggers asking if
people have actually read the Facebook terms
of service. The part that scares these folks is the section on “User Content Posted on the Site”
which states: “When you post User Content to the Site, you
authorize and direct us to make such copies thereof as we deem necessary in order to facilitate the...
Human Networking at the NJEDge.net Conference
This year’s NJEDge.Net Annual Conference is October 31 -
November 2. I’ll be presenting along with Jahanzeb Jabbar on that Thursday. Both of us are NJIT employees who
are based day-to-day at Science Park High School here in Newark this year. My role is as manager of intructional
technology, which means I deal mostly with faculty to increase the use of technology in their classes....
Radiohead Meets The Bursar
CD version, vinyl record version, enhanced CD,
artwork, lyrics in hardback book & slipcase; they have it all online.I wouldn’t usually point to
recording artists like Prince, Madonna, Nine Inch Nails and Radiohead as indicators of any trend in education, but bear
with me. These artists are moving away from the conventional music sales model. This month the British band Radiohead...
World War 2.0
I’m a bit tired of the current trend to call any new version of something tech as “something 2.0.” Example:
today I read a piece called “Digital Divide 2.0” on the Education Week site that takes the issue of the digital
divide and shows how new technologies just widen that gap. But I’ll admit to being interested in a story I
found on the new Wired...
Haiku For Blog Action Day
Today is Blog Action Day. The theme this year is the environment and anyone with a a blog can join in by posting something today related to the environment. Maybe it’s a local environmental issue, or the beach cleanup nearby, or a poem or story with an environmental theme. Podblogs, videoblogs, and photoblogs count too! The purpose is to have a massive hit on public awareness by sharing as...
Endangered New Jersey
Today is Blog Action Day and the theme is the environment, so I’m blogging day about my
experiences with the web and the environment. My first experience with the environment on the web was with a
website contest called Thinkquest. The purpose of the competition is to have students create educational websites. The
kids learn web skills and focus on a topic of interest (it’s actually a...
4th Annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival
Miles Coon, Founder and Director of the Palm Beach Poetry Festival, wrote to ask me if I would let you all know about their upcoming event. I’ve taken workshops with several of these poets (Thomas Lux at Provincetown was poetlife changing) and heard almost all of them read, and it sounds like a great event. The 4th Annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival - January 21-26, 2008 The 2008 lineup...
NJIT Video
A new video about NJIT that we uploaded to our YouTube space at highlandertech.
(via Serendipity35)
Blog Action Day
Next Monday, October 15, is Blog Action Day. The theme this year is the environment. Anyone with a a
blog can join in by posting something on that day related to the environment. Maybe it’s a local environmental
issue, or the beach cleanup nearby, even a poem or story with
an environmental theme. Podblogs, videoblogs, and photoblogs count too! The purpose is to have a massive hit...
Open Student Television Network
Our Internet2 regional network gigaPoP, MAGPI , recently formed a partnership with the
OSTN (Open Student Television
Network). OSTN provides educational, foreign language, news and entertainment IPTV content and services. Internet
Protocol Television IPTV is content that, instead of being delivered through traditional broadcast and cable formats,
is received by the viewer through the...
Watch Out for Web 2.0
Hey, I
didn’t say it. Take a look at the “GTISC Emerging Cyber
Threats Report for 2008” from Georgia Tech’s Information Security Center. The report was released at the
GTISC Security Summit on Emerging Cyber Security Threats and Countermeasures last week. The report identifies the key
data security threats to watch in the coming year and ”Web 2.0” is on their...
Visual Literacy
I was reading a piece online by Martin Scorcese on Teaching Visual Literacy
and I have to admit I started it a bit reluctantly thinking that visual literacy was going to be just a fancy
way of saying watching movies in class. Foolish me. I should trust Marty. Not that I’m opposed to movies
in class. I got a M.A. in media and I taught film and video courses for a good number of...
Second Life as Filmmaking
I suppose it was only a matter of time before this would
happen in Second Life. Then again, I’m not so sure what actually happened. In January 2007, a man named Molotov
Alva, disappeared from his Californian home. Recently, a filmmaker named Douglas Gayeton came across a series of
video dispatches by someone of the same name in Second Life. Gayeton put them together into a...
K12 Online Conference 2007
The -12 Online Conference is back next eek. It’s the conference where you don’t book a hotel room or transportation or pay aregistration fee. They nvite participation from educators around the world interested in innovative ways Web 2.0 tools and technologies can be used to improve learning. It’s a freebie run by volunteers and open to everyone. This year’s theme is...
The Roles of Bloggers part 2
In part one of
this post about the roles bloggers take on, I looked at some other bloggers who have considered online the jobs they
take on in doing their work. This variety of roles is one reason why I think blogging is such a good activity
for students. Blogging allows, perhaps requires, you to try a variety of tasks. I know of several bloggers who knew
nothing about web design and so...
Did the UK Buy YouTube?
Did I miss something while I was away last week? I went to my YouTube site that I created to use with my
course and noticed that when I put in the URL I have always used http://youtube.com/user/MSPTC it now goes to http://uk.youtube.com/user/MSPTC. Did someone in the UK buy out YouTube or Google?
Did they move all their servers over there to save money? (I know the American dollar is not...
