September 2008
The Learning Gap →
After a Spring Semester study of James Joyce’s Ulysses, my final senior English project was Finnegans wake. Like nearly everyone who had been in
similar shoes, I read and…
Self-Publishing: Blurb →
Blurb is a company (and community) that shares your joy of books. That includes reading them, making them, sharing them, and selling them. There is something magic about holding a book of…
Northeast Connect Conference →
I put in my registration for the Northeast Connect Fourth Annual Conference: Leading and Inspiring Change for
Successful Learning Friday, on November 14, 2008, at Montclair State…
New Digs →
At long last we’ve been moved.
Not that some posts and many comments haven’t moved us in the spiritual sense, but we’ve finally moved into our
new physical-virtual-cyber domicile.
After…
Anathem - Neal Stephenson →
Neal Stephenson was born in 1959 in Fort Meade, Maryland. His father taught electrical engineering, his grandfather taught physics and his mother was a biochemistry researcher. He…
Poetry and Paradise →
Waterloo Village
The Geraldine R.
Dodge Poetry Festival starts today. It is held at Waterloo
Village in Stanhope, New Jersey and runs through Sunday, September 28. This is the…
Are Admissions Officers Checking Applicants On... →
According to a survey done by Kaplan of 320 admissions officers from some “top
colleges and universities”, one out of ten admissions officers has visited an applicant’s social networking…
Face-to-Face, Online and Especially Hybrid Courses →
I came across the Chronicle headline “Study Finds Hybrid Courses Just as Effective as
Traditional Ones” and had to read the article.
Many colleges these days are trying hybrid or
blended models…
Oh, They Are Coming →
This future edupunker will
be in your classroom in just a few years.
TGIF…
Edupunk →
1980 in good old punky New Jersey
Do you
embrace edupunk?
What? You never even heard of it?
Edupunk is an approach to teaching and learning.
(I’m guessing most edupunkers might want…
2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl →
In 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl by Daniel Pinchbeck (described by Publishers Weekly as a “journalist and author of the drug-riddled psychonaut investigation Breaking Open…
Are Researchers Posting On Your Wall Yet? →
I am reading that more and more scholars are using Facebook for professional networking. So far, they are not writing on my wall,
sending me any Karma, or challenging me to any movie…
The 12th Dodge Poetry Festival →
One week to go… My 11th time attending. Wordstock. Poetry Heaven. A gathering of the tribe in New Jersey. dodgepoetry.org Audiences of up to 20,000 expected for the 12th biennial…
What's next - an interview →
Tim and I were contacted to do
an interview with Diana Drake from NJBIZ, New Jersey’s
statewide business weekly. Tim had earlier worked on their NJ Next Stop web site. That site…
Why Share? →
Julie Smith at ShareThis sent me a link (well,
she shared it via Facebook) for a study they commissioned from Forrester Consulting to discover the differences in how
and why adults and young…
Science and the Reading Brain →
Here’s a book recommendation from Bruce Schauble that I want to pick up… “I’ve spent the last four days reading one of the best books about education that I’ve ever gotten my hands around. It…
And there are LONGER versions →
4 and a half minutes of it - who knew Microsoft plans to hire 155 “gurus” by the end of the year to work in Circuit City, Best Buy and other retailers to help customers pick out PCs, said Eric…
Brain as Browser →
It sounds like a sci-fi scenario, but imagine your brain could access the Internet just by thinking about it, and
use it for things like getting directions or communicating in any language by…
Blog Action →
One month until Blog Action Day on October 15th. Last year, they got more than 20,000 bloggers with an estimated combined audience of over 15 million viewers, to post about their slant on the…
Coral Bracho: Firefly Under the Tongue →
I first heard Coral Bracho interviewed on the excellent program Bookworm from KCRW (also available in iTunes). Her poem, “Firefly Under the Tongue,” that is this month’s model…
Open Mesh →
Recently, I started reading a blog by Marc Canter - particularly posts on the idea of building an “open mesh.”
Some have described it as a unified field theory for the Web. I am always…
Save Our Wild Horses
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has announced plans to kill America’s wild horses rather than effectively manage our wild natural heritage. BLM claims it can no longer afford to round up wild horses and confine them until it finds people to adopt them, and the agency wants to euthanize these majestic wild beauties or sell them to the highest bidder “without limitation” -...
Facebook Schools: Some Clarification →
Last
week I wrote
about the “creepy treehouse” and included a brief reference to a course management system in Facebook.
That generated a comment from Michael Staton (listed on LinkedIn…
Bookmarks →
I picked up the magazine BOOKMARKS while killing some time in a Barnes & Noble cafe over coffee. The Edward Hopper illustration on the cover caught my eye. (Does B&N realize that people…
A Look at the Election Online →
It’s back-to-school and political party convention time all rolled into one. So it’s a good time to think about what
teachers might talk about in their classrooms about politics, the election and…
Do Kids Have the Right Internet Skills? →
flickr.com/photos/lecates
Do kids have the right Internet skills? That’s the question asked in a
piece by Mary E. Shacklett on Internet Evolution. My quick
answer is No, they…
Slacker Uprising →
Love him or hate him, Michael Moore gets attention like few other documentary filmmakers. Slacker Uprising is a new film by him that he is making available for a free download at …
Hot, Flat and Crowded →
Thomas L.
Friedman has a new book out this week called book, Hot, Flat, and Crowded. After publishing The World Is Flat, Friedman is pretty
much required to have interactive elements…
American Sentences →
American Sentences as a poetic form was Allen Ginsberg’s effort to make American the haiku. If haiku is seventeen syllables going down in Japanese text, he would make American Sentences seventeen…
Seinfeld and Gates and Shoe Circus and What The →
I loved SEINFELD. I’m OK with Windows. (I’m OK with a Mac too.) But what is this commercial all about? Jerry got $10 million for this? Then, he IS a genius. Read and post…
Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From... →
Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder by Richard Louv Richard Louv is a child advocacy expert and this book is an expression of his fears that our…
Big Questions →
Big Questions was the theme TED2008. So having Professor Stephen Hawking asks and try to answer some Big Questions about our universe, like about the Big Bang makes good sense. How did the universe…
Junot Diaz at Rutgers - September 8 →
“Rutgers, honestly, it was like a wonderland for me, like going from the black and white of Kansas to the Technicolor of Oz. I had never been around the density of so many smart, beautiful…
7 Film Festival →
Hulu has some really good films available for free. Yeah, it’s legal. (Though only available to viewers in the U.S. for now.)
Here are 7 good films to get you started on your own festival.
The Creepy Treehouse in the Uncanny Valley →
Whether or
not you feel that social networking and Web 2.0 applications like Facebook and Twitter have any educational legitimacy
or not, teachers are experimenting with using them in their…
Visting Authors Series at Warren County Community... →
Fall 2008 Visiting Authors Series at Warren County Community College (NJ) Wednesday, September 17: Baron Wormser, former Poet Laureate of Maine and author of the just-released Scattered Chapters:…
Why I Should Use Twitter and Why I Don't →
Twitter keeps people in touch with
all their friends (and by that I mean friend in the social network way, as in “Ken has 1027 friends.”)
no matter where they are or what they are doing….
The Chrome Browser →
Yesterday, Google finally ended
the rumors and announced the release of the beta version
of their new open-source browser called Google
Chrome. Like probably every new browser or…
Little Brother →
You can now download a free copy of Little Brother, the newest novel by Cory Doctorow. Cory is co-editor and writes for the popular blog BoingBoing, but is probably best known as a…
Vote Ghosthorse →
Now, here is an election candidate I can get behind… My lifelong friend, Dan Grigsby, has been doing music forever - from our basement bands and acoustic pairings, to his…
Back to School Apps for Students →
Via the Read
Write Web site, comes 10 Great Web Apps for College Students.
I have blogged half of these before, but it’s a good list to point to at the start of the new academic year….
