June 2008
The New York City Waterfalls →
An installation art project debuted in late June that has turned New York City’s historical harbor into a waterfall attraction for tourists, as four giant waterfall cascades…
Forget Blogging - It's Social Media That Will... →
Back in April 2006, Tim & I helped organize a a day-long
seminar on podcasts, wikis and blogs at NJIT. It was designed for non-technical business professionals to learn
about these new tools…
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A Poets Online For Kids →
Recently, I reconnected with Laura Shovan who had been teaching and writing poetry in New Jersey and was an early contributor to Poets Online.
She moved to Maryland some years ago and…
The Myth of the Google Generation →
From Jane in the UK comes an email about my comment about students
not being as tech-literate as people sometimes assume with a link to The British Library which is reacting to a…
Do Some Good (and it won't cost you anything) →
Do something good for the world while you are online today… Click on the links below- There’s no obligation, no login, no cost to you, other than a few moments of your online time. Suspicious?…
Is This Course Useable? →
I was
working on updates for the graduate visual design course I teach at NJIT last night. As I was looking at some files on web usability, I was struck
with an unexpected similarity….
Literacy? Which One? →
I sat down with some of the PCCC library folks yesterday to talk about them supporting the
fall 08 faculty teaching writing-intensive courses for the first time. One of the aspects of our…
Throw Away That Presentation Software →
Well, don’t throw it away if you already bought it, but you might want to reconsider purchasing the next version of
presentation software like PowerPoint or Keynote as yet another web application…
Poetry at the Library of Congress →
Most people probably think of the Library of Congress as, well, a library. Fans of poetry may also think of the Library of Congress as the home of our Poet Laureate. Connected to that is a…
Well, Is Google Making Us Stupid? →
Nicholas Carr wrote a piece in The
Atlantic new July issue called “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” I had read a blog that mentioned it and so I
walked right outside my office to the library…
The Last Thursday Poetry Readings →
Hopefully, this series will be of special interest to New Jersey area poetry fans and longtime readers of Poets Online. The Last Thursday Poetry Readings series runs on the last Thursday of…
Independent Films on YouTube →
Just read about this in the LA Times The “Screening Room” is a new feature on YouTube and it is yet another reason that we need to consider
that site as a source of good free media.
They…
Last Thursday Poetry Series 2008 →
poetry reading series in Middletown, NJ
AP » $12.50 for Five Words →
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Creating Google Sites →
A few months ago Google launched Google Sites as part of Google Apps. It seems to be designed for companies and
organizations that want to use the service on their own domains, but it’s open to…
AP Versus Bloggers →
Earlier this week I was reading a disturbing post about the Associated Press
making a claim that the very popular Drudge Retort and its users linking to AP stories are violating…
The Wikipedia School of Education →
When I started in
instructional technology at NJIT in 2000, one of my fears was that I would be dealing with professors who were
focused on research and had little interest in pedagogy….
Disneyworld Plus Google Earth →
3D view in Google
Earth
This even made the mainstream news this past week - you can now explore all of Walt Disney World Resort in 3D in Disney’s
Google Earth tour. (The link will…
Today is Firefox 3 Download Day →
What is Download Day? It’s today and it’s the day that version 3 of the Firefox
browser becomes available. It’s also an attempt by the Mozilla folks to set a world record for…
Rubrication →
We spent a good amount of time last week during the Summer Institute on rubrics. Part of our goals for
the Writing Initiative
at PCCC is to develop a standard writing rubric that will be…
Parenting: Dark and Warm →
After our May prompt mixing the mundane and erotic in a prose poem scared the poetry world into silence, we decided to normalize for June. With Mother’s Day and Father’s Day past, the…
Wikifying Encyclopaedia Britannica →
When I read a post on the Wired Campus Blog called “Encyclopaedia Britannica Goes — Gasp — Wiki!” I thought, “Well, it’s about
time.”
If you have followed the Wikipedia controversy and its…
Just a Note →
We are having some admin issues with Serendipity35, so there’s a temporary hold on new posts. Hopefully Brother Tim will
solve the database problems soon.
Is it Critical Thinking, Creative Thinking or... →
From day 2 at the PCCC Writing
Initiative Summer Institute
I was reading Dr. Edward de Bono’s book, Six Thinking Hats, a few weeks ago in
preparation for two sessions today that I’m…
LibGuides: Making Library 2.0 Collaboration Easier →
Part of today’s content at the PCCC Writing Initiative Summer Institute will be a hands-on session creating a LibGuide for
our faculty involved in redesigning their courses as “Writing…
List of Public iTunes Sites →
Update: Version 5 view earlier versions Apple
has now added universities in the United Kingdom, Ireland, New Zealand, and Australia to the iTunes U list of schools
now offering…
Print Is The New Web →
The website for the magazine Fast
Company asks its readers: Will successful websites start spinning out print magazines of curated web-first
content?Considering how many techfolks are asking…
On The Back of My Napkin →
I didn’t even get to read
Brain Rules and my wife has already bought The Back of the Napkin by Dan Roam
which is being buzzed about as one of the growing number of business books…
Do It Yourself Education, Edupunk Style →
Cathy Kelley posted on the blog CTLT
Dialogues about a Wired Campus post on “Edupunk.” It’s supposed to
be punk-style rebellion for do-it-yourself and 2.0 approaches to education as…
Timelines: Getting Synchronoptical →
Synchronoptical means seeing at the same time or more accurately parallel views. It is is a graphic display of a number
of entities as they proceed through time. This type of view is most likely to…
