Tuesday, February 23, 2010
The New York Times has a story on Textbooks That Professors Can Rewrite Digitally. Macmillan, one of the five largest publishers of trade books and textbooks, is introducing software called DynamicBooks, which will allow college instructors to edit digital editions of textbooks and customize them for their individual classes. I’ve had many a textbook that [...]
Monday, February 22, 2010
Since I stopped posting the monthly summaries of what I have published at eHow, I’ve stopped showing you my occasional photo. Here’s a photo, apropos of nothing, that shows the mystical Sandia Mountains on a cloudy February morning. How to Hide Farmville (and such) on Facebook. OMG, this is the best thing I’ve learned in [...]
Leon Adkison (from WOW), Chris Mills, Stephanie Troeth, Aarron Walter. On Twitter: @waspinteract Here’s a summary of the announcement of the WaSP Interact Curriculum in tweet sized bits. I posted these tweets during the panel as @vdebolt. In case you miss the point, the URL where the curriculum lives is http://interact.webstandards.org/, #sxsw #sxswed WaSP Interact [...]
James Powderly is an open source evangalist. Virginia Heffernan works for the New York Times Magazine. Almost 15 minutes late getting started. Not a good sign. The room is full. Two youngish women next to me trying to learn how to use Twitter. Artists are visually interpreting today’s keynote. Two women artists. James showed clips [...]
Elisa Camahort Page. Co-founder of BlogHer. Grok is to deeply know and understand something so well it’s internalized. What’s going on in the blogosphere? Talked about BlogHer benchmark survey. Blogs are now mainstream, addictive, and trusted. 53% of U. S. online women are participating in the blogosphere either reading or writing or both. Blogging is [...]
I didn’t blog sessions today quite so much. There were several reasons for this. One, I watched one of the founders of BlogHer, Elisa Camahort Page (pictured above) be interviewed. Two, I spent over two hours involved in an education lunch with a gaggle of people interested in the way web design is taught. Three, [...]
Diana Kimball, Alex Leavitt, Kabren Levinson, Archana Ramachandran, Kelly Sutton. All students. They talked about social networks in education. All are working on something as students that relates to technology in education. Ramachandran. It is possible to reach masses of people through systems available now. It can connect both faculty and students. Not all people [...]
Jim Groom, Stephen Downs, Gardner Campbell, Barbara Ganley Edupunk an approach that results from a DIY attitude and brings the attitude of 70s punk rock bands to the classroom. Campbell. Tools to put course content online in the 90s we are problematic content delivery model. It’s become a business system rather than a relational driven [...]
Julia Angwin, Danah Boyd, Betty Sue Flowers, Heather Gold. The explosion of social media is entirely a feminist thing. Gold talked about how long the 3rd wave of feminism has taken and how it led to social media. Flowers: the personal is the political, everything is connected, gossip makes the world go round. Angwin: My [...]
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