Zach just pointed me to a recent boingboing article about a game programmer who took time off to be with her child and, as a diversion, create an ecosystem in Second Life!
Archive for May, 2006
Gardner Campbell just tipped me off on a veritable gold-mine of old postcard images of Fredericksburg, VA offered through the Central Rappahannock Library. Why might this be of interest to a native New Yorker and Yankee through and through, you ask? Well, because my middle name is “Stonewall”! Well, actually, it’s not [...]
A screenshot of me getting ready to ride through the Haunted House for the Second time in Second Life. I can’t even begin to describe how cool this place is, but I will say this much, a friend of mine just bought a 1932 Indian motorcycle for $1.06, and it is in mint condition. [...]
Cac.ophony: or, the mellifluous sounds of inter-campus collaboration
Published by May 26th, 2006 in Uncategorized. 5 CommentsMikhail Gershovich, the director of the Bernard L. Shwartz Communication Institute at Baruch College (CUNY), has been engaging many of the questions about technology and learning that we are dealing with here at UMW. Like us, he has been integrating an external web-hosting service into the exploration of enterprise wide tools such [...]
Well, I am back in the teaching saddle and it feels good, but I do feel sorry for the students in my class who have become subject to a whole lot of technologies. And while I think they’re enjoying it, I am also realizing that blogs and a wiki can really change [...]
Coming late to the UMW Faculty Academy experience, I have heard on several occasions during this year’s event that I was spoiled. Why, you ask? I am sure there are many reasons, but one certainty is that this year’s conference did an exceptional job of framing the space where scholarship, technology and camaraderie [...]
“Well, Lloyd, I’ve been away but now I’m back. So, you line ‘em up and I’ll knock ‘em back, one by one.”
That’s right the best damn ITS from Timbuktu to Portland, Maine (or Portland, Oregon for that matter) is back in the blogosphere. It has been one of those months, as they say, where I [...]
Multimedia and the incoming freshmen over the next ten years …
Published by May 6th, 2006 in Uncategorized. 1 CommentI have been thinking a lot about the space of multimedia authoring in higher education lately, and it just seems to me that most universities I have been at are grossly under-prepared for the challenges that freshmen over the next ten years are going to represent in terms of “non-traditional” authoring. In fact, Gardner’s [...]
That is how I would describe the student readings of Donne being published on Gardner Campbell’s blog. Where was this guy when I was an undergraduate in English literature?
Wow! The sound quality is impeccable, but, more importantly, the interpretive and analytical nuances of such a student generated project are truly amazing. This [...]
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