May 2008
NJVid: Statewide Video On Demand →
William Paterson University, Rutgers University and NJEDge.net received a three-year IMLS National Leadership Grant to support the launch of NJVid - a New Jersey Video Portal. The grant…
May 30th
The Internet As Your Classroom TV Set →
More shift happens. Viewers, especially younger ones, are turning more and more away from watching TV on a TV. Are big screens and high definition pictures going to hold viewers? Doubtful. …
May 28th
Heading Cross Country to Write Across the... →
Tomorrow, three of us from the Writing Initiative group at PCCC are headed to the University of Texas at Austin for the 2008 International Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC)…
May 27th
Veterans History Project →
The Veterans History Project relies on volunteers to collect and preserve stories of wartime service. It is a project of the Library of Congress aimed at collecting oral history interviews,…
May 26th
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Blackboard In Bollywood →
Since I follow the story of Blackboard and its patent controversy, and open source LMS options, it was inevitable that someone (Thanks, Alex!) would send me a link to these videos. It’s a series…
May 23rd
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May 23rd
Why Students Cheat: A Student View →
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Cheating.JPG I was emptying some boxes of files from my NJIT days (it has been 5 months so…) and I came across a large set of folders from my…
May 22nd
Why Teachers Are Reluctant To Report Cheating and... →
This post is meant to be read with my companion post today titled “Why Students Cheat: A Student View.” As I said there, this is based on some formal & informal surveys and opinions communicated…
May 22nd
The 2008 Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival →
information on the biggest poetry event in North America - the “Wordstock” of the poetry world
May 21st
The 2008 Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival →
At the Festival: left to right, Coleman Barks, Taha Muhammad Ali, Linda Pastan, Mark Doty, and Lucille Clifton The Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival returns to Waterloo Village in…
May 21st
Reinventing Assessment  →
What would assessment look like, if you could reinvent it using 21st-century tools? Back in January at FETC 2008, Chris Dede asked his audience that question as his presentation intro. (…
May 21st
America's Digital Schools →
The 2008 America’s Digital Schools report asked superintendents, curriculum directors, and technology directors what they thought would be the important areas in the future of ed tech as a…
May 20th
A Retrial for the RIAA's Only Successful Suit →
May 20th
Straightening Out The Curve of Forgetting →
+ Here’s a video from Wired.com to accompany my post about the curve of forgetting. Their reporter Alexis Madrigal learns how to memorize using his body in a lesson from U.S….
May 19th
The Curve of Forgetting →
In the late 1800s, a German scientist named Ebbinghaus experimented with memory by creating lists of nonsense syllables (huf jeik mek meun pon…) and measuring how long it took to forget and then…
May 19th
Ken Ronkowitz - a directory of myself →
just trying to keep track of myself online
May 18th
One in four data breaches involves schools →
“You’re losing the cyber security battle,” experts warn during a higher-education computer-security conference near Washington, D.C. Cyber criminals are becoming bolder and more sophisticated in…
May 17th
Civil Rights Award Given to Soledad O'Brien →
Each year, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights presents the prestigious Hubert H. Humphrey Civil Rights Award, celebrating the legacy of the former vice president, senator and civil rights…
May 17th
Gary Snyder Wins Poetry Prize →
Gary Snyder has won the 2008 Ruth Lilly Prize for his body of work.
May 16th
Graduate Writing Exam →
a LibGuide from Passaic County Community College to aid students in preparing for the college Graduate Writing Exam (GWE)
May 16th
What We See in Our Statistical Mirror Today →
I am happy to report that Poets Online cracked the top 100 Literature sites on Blog Flux ( a site that collects usage stats on blogs by categories). Of course, our numbers aren’t anything that the…
May 16th
Webby Awards →
Earlier this month the Webby Awards were announced. There are lots of categories, but I’ll just point you to a few blogs. The Huffington Post won best Political blog. PostSecret is…
May 16th
15 Productive Uses for a Wiki →
May 15th
Web Design Toolbox: 50+ Tools for Web Design →
May 15th
Open Clip Art Library →
May 15th
Steve Winwood →
I first encountered Winwood in 1966 when “Gimme Some Lovin’” was released by the Spencer Davis Group. Steve left the next year to form Traffic which was one of THE transforming rock groups of my…
May 15th
Reader 2.0: Reader As Collaborator →
I wrote about Clay Shirky’s newest book, Here Comes Everybody, in an earlier post. Later,I was reading on Shirky’s own blog that a reader was creating a webliography with links to sites…
May 15th
Chris Shamburg's Hidden Curriculum Revealed →
Christopher Shamburg is an Associate Professor in the graduate program in educational technology at NJCU. He’s also a former high school teacher, a Folger Shakespeare Library Educator. Chris…
May 14th
Ronkowitz's bookmarks on del.icio.us →
May 14th
Closing The Deal On Connections →
photo: Gaetan Lee The marketing people have been paying more attention to neuroscience than many educators. Neuromarketing studies the sensorimotor, cognitive, and affective…
May 13th
Podcasts About Cinema, Film or Movies →
As a high school student and undergrad, I was a cineaste and hoped to go to film school. That didn’t happen, but I read a lot about film, took film courses and watched a lot of movies…
May 12th
Edustyle - PCCC Style →
I wasn’t even aware until this week that my very own Passaic County Community College had been nominated in this year’s eduStyle Higher-ed Web Awards. It’s “people’s choice” voting and…
May 9th
Prose Poems: I Sing the Mundane Erotic →
“Which one of us, in his moments of ambition, has not dreamed of a miracle of poetic prose, musical without rhythm and without rhyme, supple enough and rugged enough to adapt itself to the lyrical…
May 9th
Opening Up More Learning →
The Open Learning Initiative at Carnegie Mellon University may look at quick glance as a version of the MIT OpenCourseware project. I think there are some significant differences. …
May 8th
The Writing Initiative at PCCC →
information on the 5-year writing initiative at Passaic County Community Collge, Paterson, NJ aimed at increasing achievement and program completion rates of Hispanic and other students by…
May 7th
Pruning the RSS Bush →
Every once and awhile I go to a site like YouTube and do a wildcard search. Enter an asterisk as the wild card in their search box and it looks for ALL videos. A few weeks ago it came up as…
May 7th
Experimental Xerox Paper Erases Itself →
The headline was “Experimental Xerox Paper Erases Itself, Results In Temporary Documents On Reusable Paper.” “Xerox Corporation scientists have invented a way to make prints whose…
May 6th
Busy →
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May 6th
Center for Digital Storytelling →
May 6th
Public iTunes U Sites V4 →
A year ago, Apple launched a new version of the iTunes Music Store which included an iTunes U link and 16 colleges whose podcasts can be accessed directly from the…
May 6th
Published Knowledge Is Old Knowledge →
Personification of knowledge (Greek, Episteme) Celsus Library, Ephesus, Turkey. photo by Radomil “Published knowledge is old knowledge.The art of intelligence in the 21st…
May 5th
Hit a Million Times and Still Smiling →
Reading Tim’s thorough dissection today of the blog getting a million hits in April is illuminating, but it doesn’t address what gives me the most pleasure from the numbers. Last year at this…
May 5th
The Million Milestone →
Blogging software generates statistics —loads and loads of statistics— and stuffs them into webserver, database and system logfiles. Over the past 12 months, Serendipity35 has been stuffing…
May 4th
100,000 Wikis in the Classroom →
I started experimenting with wikis in early 2006. Tim and I set up a wiki using Mediawiki software. That’s the open source software that powers Wikipedia and you’ll find lots of other wiki sites…
May 2nd
Celebrating NJ's Literary Journals - June 1 - Free... →
Diane Lockward has been organizing a poetry festival that is a “Celebration of New Jersey’s Literary Journals (and Some Neighbors)” since 2004. (Here’s a funny NY Times take on that first one.) …
May 1st
Discovering Connections →
Megite Discover is a crowdsourcing service for web browsing provided by Megite, a social news aggregator. The idea is that you put in a web address and it provides relevant links of…
May 1st