The following article on Slashdot is from an IT person (I assume) at an Art College who is asking for advice about dealing with his colleges pending move to an entirely laptop campus … interesting concept!
Archive for February, 2006
If you build it, they will come …
Published by February 26th, 2006 in insructional technology. 1 CommentWhile I hated the film Field of Dreams (almost as much as I hate the acting persona of Kevin Costner), I will shamelessly utilize an oft abused quote from that film. After speaking with Amanda McCuskey (a sophomore at UMW, and one of the University’s finest), I was made aware of some online communities [...]
The Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) in San Francisco has one of the most elegant and important exhibits I have yet to see online. The “Photographs from the African Diaspora” virtual exhibit is truly visionary, be sure to take a look.
Preserving the Past with Futuristic Tools
Published by February 25th, 2006 in Uncategorized. 2 CommentsOne of the projects that I have been working on this semester has been the development of an online exhibit with the museum lab class in the Historic Preservation department. As this project builds momentum, I am starting to get really excited about the work already done as well as the herculean tasks that [...]
Gardner has been on a bloggin’ tear as of late and, as usual, providing me with something fun to do online. Like, for example, the simpsomaker self-portrait machine featured below:
He has also invoked Martin Luther on the iTunes U question and, quite frankly, I have seen way too much of Apple’s insidious posturing recently to [...]
The Houston chief of police, Harold Hurtt, recently proposed placing surveillance cameras in streets, apartments, shopping malls and even private homes to fight crime. His response to reporters questions about privacy was the following quotable:
I know a lot of people are concerned about Big Brother, but my response to that is, if you are not [...]
Tim O’Donnell, a speech professor here at UMW, has designed (with Ross Smith at Wake Forst University) a really cool tool that enables each of their classes to interact (more precisely, debate) online. The class site is called arguendo.com, and is powered by Scoop software – when going to Scoop’s site I found the following [...]
Philip K. Dick Robot Missing!!! Boing Boing reports here. Isn’t this image really creepy.
After today’s seminar with my colleagues a lot of ideas were rushing around my head -as they always are after these stimulating discussions- about “what is,” “what was,” and “what may be” for teaching, learning and technologies at UMW. This morning we were dealing with the specifics of managing and updating our webspace on [...]
The D&D online game is now accepting pre-orders. And if you do pre-order the game you get the added value of becoming a beta-tester. Wow, there goes all my new-found hopes for the dissertation …
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