Use the “Add RSS Feed” field to the right to have your blog posts aggregated here. This is a test of Andre Malan’s Add to BDP RSS Plugin for WordPress.
cac.ophony.org » Status Anxiety
Yeah, I’m on the Facebook. I resisted for some time, but being able to play Scrabble (or, more accurately, “Scrabulous”) with friends ultimately got me. I’ve developed a bond with the husband of a college friend of my sister-in-law, forged initially through comments on the baby blogosphere, but secured ultimately through online word games played on Facebook. We’ve met only twice. The first time was before our online friendship blossomed. The second was at a party a few weeks ago. We were both a little nervous, but happy to see each other. I joked that we met on “Bromatch.com.” We ...
WPMu Ed » WPMu Sitewide Tags, Feeds, & Archives! Oh, My!
So….so so so so so so, it’s time for a little walk down WPMu history lane. Last year at this time I was desparately scrambling for a way to have sitewide tags for UMW Blogs. I found the solution in Dr. Mike’s hack shared on the WordPress forums here, but it was a kind of a mess even then. Yet, the concept was brilliant, a separate site that allows you to archive, search, and create a tag cloud for categories through a good ol’ spamming plugin. —DIY ingenuity at work given the limitations of WPMu at the time. The set ...
[Link]WPMu Ed » A List of Plugins Used on the Bava
I have been meaning to use David Benini’s Plugins List plugin (I love plugins about plugins–the meta-plugin!) which simply allows you to include a list of all the plugins you are using on your site. Simple, yet potentially very useful for others, and a way to give a shout out for all the hardworking folks out there who are truly responsible for making WordPress as great as it is (yep, I’m creeping back to the state of ecstatic fanboy!).
And while it won’t list the MultiUser plugins running on the bava, it will list all the standard plugins, and that may ...
[Link]WPMu Ed » Playing with WPMu 2.6 rc 1
I have upgraded bavatuesdays (and six other domains I tend on one WPMu install) to the beta release of WPMu 2.6 in anticipation of upgrading UMW Blogs come August 1st. In fact, the next few weeks are going to be an all out WPMu push. I will be working on updating all our documentation for the new admin interface—I’ll be borrowing liberally from Luke Waltzer’s awesome tutorials getting underway here—as well as making sure the upgrade of UMW Blogs from 1.3.3 to 2.6 is smooth (notice that WPMu has realigned the version numbers with the straight up WordPress). In short, ...
cac.ophony.org » Google Burn-out as Occupational Hazard
While imbibing Lorna Hutson’s introduction to Ben Jonson’s collected plays, I was intrigued by this passage about the thematic and stylistic differences between Shakespeare and Jonson:
“In fact, Jonson has a complex sense of human psychology, but his interest as a dramatist lies more in the psychology of habitual behavior than behavior in the transitional moments of life crisis for which Shakespeare’s plays are often metaphors. He is also interested in the way that human desires, anxieties and creative energies are affected by the material conditions of their communication.”
Jonson’s interest in these material conditions birthed some good stuff, like ...
[Link]Featured Blog » UMW Abroad
While Serena keeps the weekly installments of images capturing the “City of Light” coming, Stephanie —another of UMW’s faithful abroad—offers up her own vision of Paris.
And if you want to read some missives from the center of European culture, you can get regular updates from Italy on Jana’s blog coming live from the masterpiece that is Florence.
If anyone else has a space online (by no means limited to UMW Blogs) tracing their trips, adventures, and/or follies abroad that they would like to share, drop the URL in the comments. Au revoir.
[Link]WPMu Ed » Reading Capital, Part 3: Forums vs. Discourse
World Forum 1 image courtesy of Dunechaser.
This part of the Reading Capital discussion framework looks at the Reading Capital Forums (powered by bbPress) and a feature called Discourse which is the theme Prologue for WordPress blogs that offers a similar functionality as Twitter without the 140 character limitation. Despite what the title of this post might suggest, this isn’t an either/or choice, but I would like to think about how the two might offer different approaches to online conversation and discussion
Forums 
The forums for the Reading Capital site are using the bbPress software which has a number ...
WPMu Ed » Reading Capital, Part 2: Blogs, Feeds, and Aggregation
Marx and Engels lego photo used courtesy of Dunechaser
So I’m finally returning to creating a discussion framework for the Reading Capital site. I will detail my thinking for the design of the site below (and in at least two subsequent posts), and I invite any and all recommendations and criticisms. It’s a model that is far from perfect, but provides an opportunity to look at how we might provide a platform for aggregating and re-presenting posts and discussions in a distributed manner.
For the technical details behind this setup go here for more information.
Section 1: BloggingI am ...
[Link]WPMu Ed » Self-Service Feed Aggregation with WPMu
This post will detail how to create an aggregator site wherein people can simply add their feeds to a site and have their content automatically re-published. This example is specifically for WordPress and/or WordPress Multi-User. It depends upon three plugins, so download them ahead of time from the links below:
1) Oz Politics’s BDP RSS Aggregator
2) Andre Malan’s Add RSS extension widget for BDP RSS
3) Charles Johnson’s Feed WordPress plugin
Here’s how (and note that all the images below link to larger versions for your viewing pleasure):
Setting up BDP RSSFirst you need to install, activate and setup ...
[Link]WPMu Ed » All Kinds of Domain Mapping with WPMu
So the last two days have been a lot of fun, I have been mapping all the domains I currently have to one WordPress Multi-User installation, and I’m glad to say it has worked like a charm (you can find my previous discussions of the process here and here). I had problems at first because the latest version of FeedWordPress 0.993 creates some conflicts with WPMu 1.5.1 which prevent you from creating new blogs and also breaks the incoming dashboard feeds. After I deactivated FeedWordPress everything worked like a charm, and I now have ten different domains mapped to one WPMu ...
[Link]WPMu Ed » The Design of Openness
Photo thanks to Bern@t’s Flickr stream.
Cole Camplese recently had a provocative post about open design that has me thinking about a few things that might frame some of the ideas that I think are key to imagining a loosely joined, open, and mashable community for teaching and learning.
I am thinking more about how openness should be built into the design process. Not really instructional design per say, but design in general … in my mind learning design is looking at the notion of building learning opportunities in a more broad sense than more strict instructional systems design.
... [Link]WPMu Ed » Twourse Design
Today I got to thinking about something while talking about building a community site: where is my community right now? Well, Twitter, and at this very moment I can see all kinds of cool things happening. I’m currently following two of my favorite people, Shannon Hauser and Brian Lamb, exchange ideas about music. They’re both excited about what thy are sharing and it is cool to watch and learn from. In fact, I can partake by tracking the dialog and following their links. Not to mention that at any moment I could jump in, even if after the fact. The coolest ...
WPMu Ed » Finally, Course Aggregation Made Easy
photo credit: Tambako the Jaguar
Well, it took us over a year, and with several iterations along the way, but I think UMW Blogs will now be able to provide dead simple aggregation of posts from numerous, distributed blogs with very little work, but a little bit of money for the plugin extension ($50 to be exact). Henri Simeon’s MuTags plugin and the $50 extension we bought from him gave UMW Blogs a RSS feed for each and every site wide tag.
Once sitewide tags have an RSS feed, the whole problem of grabbing each student’s RSS feed, ...
[Link]WPMu Ed » This ain’t yo mama’s e-portfolio, part 3
So, to pick up on parts 1 and 2, part 3 is an examination of some of the uses and possibilities of feed-driven architecture for dealing with the varying ways we might understand a portfolio, which—as Stephen Downes notes here—is in the midst of a pretty significant transformation. A change premised on re-imagining the portfolio as not so much a static receptacle for work completed, but a dynamic space for both reflection and presentation of an on-going development, or “portfolio-ing” as Alan Levine’s comment points out. This shift parallels the way many are approaching their actual work in this field (and ...
[Link]WPMu Ed » This ain’t yo mama’s e-portfolio, part 2
So, in an attempt to galvanize my mania to its most chaotically productive for Faculty Academy 2008, I’ll go on with this e-portfolio madness, as promised. However, the comments on part 1 are already making me wonder whether this post shouldn’t be written by D’Arcy, Chris, Phaedral, or Cole (or perhaps all of them)?
That acknowledged, I want to particularly note Chris and Phaedral’s comments about the importance of each individual controlling the sequential nature of their portfolio, giving them full control over this nuanced space for extensive creativity, expression, and order. I couldn’t agree with either of them more, and ...
[Link]WPMu Ed » This ain’t yo mama’s e-portfolio, part 1
It’s been over a year now since my full-fledged burn, baby, burn conversation with Gardner Campbell about WordPress Multi-User, ELS Blogs, the Digital Five Ring Binder, and the underpinnings of re-imagining an online distributed space for teaching and learning that both encompasses and moves beyond e-portfolios, capturing a whole range of activities both for class and beyond.
This is a conversation that hasn’t happened in a vacuum, see Cole Camplese’s post about using the blog as an e-portfolio back in May, 2006 (and several subsequent iterations on that idea). Or Mike Caulfield’s posts here and here on the topic of ...
[Link]cac.ophony.org » Is This Effective Communication?
My feeling is that this would make a fine satirical cartoon inside the New Yorker. But to give it the cover? Not so sure about that.
Understandably, the Obamas ain’t pleased, finding it tasteless and degrading. The fear is that this image, widely distributed, may give credence to the misinformation going around about the couple. As someone put it to me, “this plays into the suspicions of the morons who ‘don’t do nuance.’” To which I replied: “Since when has the New Yorker cared about those folks?”
People will be talking about this cover, and though it may not reach ...
[Link]Featured Blog » Tracking the Housing Crisis
David Merkowitz’s Real Estate Crisis and a Little American Studies blog traces news about the current housing crisis in the US on a regular basis. It’s a personal favorite because I can get a ton of information about the spiraling effects of greed and consumption gone awry from one RSS feed! The format of the blog is simple and quite old school, it has a brief description of an article accompanied by a link to the original— in many ways hearkening back to the roots of web logs.
cac.ophony.org » Is This Effective Communication?
My feeling is that this would make a fine satirical cartoon inside the New Yorker. But to give it the cover? Not so sure about that.
Understandably, the Obama’s ain’t pleased, finding it tasteless and degrading. The fear is that this image, widely distributed, may give credence to the misinformation going around about the couple. As someone put it to me, “this plays into the suspicions of the morons to ‘don’t do nuance.’” To which I replied: “Since when has the New Yorker cared about those folks?”
People will be talking about this cover, and though it may not reach ...
[Link]WPMu Ed » Reading Capital, Part 3: Forums vs. Discourse
World Forum 1 image courtesy of Dunechaser.
This part of the Reading Capital discussion framework looks at the Reading Capital Forums (powered by bbPress) and a feature called Discourse which is the theme Prologue for WordPress blogs that offers a similar functionality as Twitter without the 140 character limitation. Despite what the title of this post might suggest, this isn’t an either/or choice, but I would like to think about how the two might offer different approaches to online conversation and discussion
Forums The forums for the Reading Capital site are using the bbPress software which has a number ...
WPMu Ed » Reading Capital, Part 2: Blogs, Feeds, and Aggregation
Marx and Engels lego photo used courtesy of Dunechaser
So I’m finally returning to creating a discussion framework for the Reading Capital site. I will detail my thinking for the design of the site below (and in at least two subsequent posts), and I invite any and all recommendations and criticisms. It’s a model that is far from perfect, but provides an opportunity to look at how we might provide a platform for aggregating and re-presenting posts and discussions in a distributed manner.
For the technical details behind this setup go here for more information.
Section 1: BloggingI am ...
[Link]WPMu Ed » Self-Service Feed Aggregation with WPMu
This post will detail how to create an aggregator site wherein people can simply add their feeds to a site and have their content automatically re-published. This example is specifically for WordPress and/or WordPress Multi-User. It depends upon three plugins, so download them ahead of time from the links below:
1) Oz Politics’s BDP RSS Aggregator
2) Andre Malan’s Add RSS extension widget for BDP RSS
3) Charles Johnson’s Feed WordPress plugin
Here’s how (and note that all the images below link to larger versions for your viewing pleasure):
Setting up BDP RSSFirst you need to install, activate and setup ...
[Link]Featured Blog » Miltonauts Disover Paradise Lost
Dr. Gardner Campbell will be hosting the twelfth and final Paradise Lost all-night readathon at UMW this Friday, July 11th. For more details and directions click here. And while we are on the subject of professor Campbell and Milton, take a look at his Summer seminar’s course blog—brilliantly titled Attack of the Summer Miltonauts—that traces the class’s distributed thoughts, commentaries, and struggles with the great works of John Milton. Well worth your time to read these “thoughts inflam’d with highest design.”
Featured Blog » Summer in Paris
One of UMW’s finest is currently exploring Paris, and UMW Blogs recently got wind of some of the amazing photos she has been taking on this trip. If you want to see Paris through the eyes of a master, make sure to regularly check out highlights on her blog, or take a look at the Paris 2008 set on her Flickr account (looks like only friends and family can see the photo sets on flickr as of now). Great stuff!
cac.ophony.org » A very long sentence
I am currently teaching a writing course, and a day after explaining compound sentences, and minutes after preparing a lecture on eliminating wordiness, I picked up Philip Roth’s A Plot Against America and came across the following mammoth and dazzling sentence.
“Elizabeth, New Jersey, when my mother was being raised there in a flat over her father’s grocery store, was an industrial port a quarter the size of Newark, dominated by the Irish working class and their politicians and the tightly knit parish life that revolved around the town’s many churches, and though I never heard her complain of having been pointedly ...
[Link]cac.ophony.org » How to Tell A Story
Peter O’Toole, on Fresh Air, telling Terry Gross about shooting the dangerous scene pictured above for Lawrence of Arabia.
I love how O’Toole takes her question and turns it into a narrative, reveling in the details, painting a picture, and ending with a bang. As is often the case, Gross asks a follow-up question that leads to a coda by O’Toole that sums up not only the moment and the story, but also his entire approach to life.
[Link]Featured Blog » ITEC 521
Teresa Coffman’s ITEC 521 course is doing some exciting things with the small pieces loosely joined approach to instructional technologies. The class has been exploring Twitter, playing with wikis at wikispaces, collaborating on a Wikibook, and using Google Pages as eportfolios just to name a few of the ways they have been using the open web to share, collaborate, and present the work they have been doing.
But the larger, more exciting push in this course is really captured by Professor Coffman’s explanation of the logic behind the class wikibook (a draft of which can be found here):
The ...
[Link]cac.ophony.org » Navigating the Messages at the Ballpark
A while ago, I made my first trip to Comerica Park, the stadium where my beloved Detroit Tigers play their home games. I say “play their home games” because to me, Tiger Stadium will always be their true home, even if in the future it’s left only partially standing. I grew up about an hour from the corner of Michigan and Trumbull, and my trips to that grimy cathedral were always something special. The place was beautifully disgusting, crusted with the cheers (and spit) of generations of faithful. Above all, it had character so palpable that it didn’t matter if half ...
[Link]andremalan.net » In honour of Dr, Donald Wehrung
Image via Wikipedia
Yesterday I was invited to attend a ceremony to celebrate Don Wehrung’s contribution to the International Student Initiative at UBC. It was an incredible ceremony and all the speakers did a fantastic job of highlighting what a great man Don truly is.
Don is the person who was asked to head the International Student Initiative when it started back in 1996. The goals of the program was to increase the number of international students at UBC. Don has been incredibly successful, around 10 percent of UBC students at the moment being international. One of the most ...
[Link]cac.ophony.org » Navigating a Ballpark
A while ago, I made my first trip to Comerica Park, the stadium where my beloved Detroit Tigers play their home games. I say “play their home games” because to me, Tiger Stadium will always be their true home, even if in the future it’s left only partially standing. I grew up about an hour from the corner of Michigan and Trumbull, and my trips to that grimy cathedral were always special. The place was beautifully disgusting, crusted with the cheers (and spit) of generations of faithful. Above all, it had character so palpable that it didn’t matter if half your ...
[Link]Featured Blog » Judges 5:27 Strikes Again
If you aren’t reading the blog Judges 5:27 you should be. Always full of great commentary and conversations on a variety of things philosophical and meta-physical.
A recent post entitled Philippians 2:2 discusses among other things people who record their mp3s and share them with the world. Some are good, some are bad, some are just plain weird.
Enjoy this haunting song about squirrels:
[Link]cac.ophony.org » The 8th Annual Symposium Blog
The Symposium Blog is up and running!
The Miscommunication: 8th Annual Symposium blog had it’s opening post on June 5th at 3:03pm. For the next few weeks there will be regular posts highlighting different tables at the symposium. I have enjoyed reading through the notes and table discussions and looking through the photographs of the day.
As I worked on setting up the blog, I felt the urge to post every note and conversation and image that happened during the event. It seemed so important to share with all of the participants what had happened and show them what ...
[Link]cac.ophony.org » Technology: Miracle or Illusion?
Editor’s note: in advance of this weekend’s U.S. Open, this is the final in a series of posts exploring the metaphorical relationship between golf and writing.
Since golf began being widely played during the 19th century until sometime in the middle of the twentieth, clubs had shafts of wood, not metal, certainly not graphite. The heads of clubs were slivers of metal about the thickness of a frying pan, the size of a silver dollar and had only a rumor of a “sweet spot.” A comparison might be playing tennis with an old-style 80-square-inch wooden racket strung with cat gut. ...
[Link]cac.ophony.org » “Drive for Show, Putt for Dough”: It’s the Small Stuff that Matters
Editor’s note: in advance of this weekend’s U.S. Open, this is the second in a series of posts exploring the metaphorical relationship between golf and writing.
One of the enduring paradoxes of golf as played by amateurs is the huge and hugely disproportionate emphasis placed on the drive. That’s the first shot on a hole, hit off a tee instead of from the grass, with the biggest, longest club in the bag. It is a powerful feeling, and often looks great too, when you smack a ball way, way down the fairway just where you wanted it, bringing a ...
[Link]WPMu Ed » All Kinds of Domain Mapping with WPMu
So the last two days have been a lot of fun, I have been mapping all the domains I currently have to one WordPress Multi-User installation, and I’m glad to say it has worked like a charm (you can find my previous discussions of the process here and here). I had problems at first because the latest version of FeedWordPress 0.993 creates some conflicts with WPMu 1.5.1 which prevent you from creating new blogs and also breaks the incoming dashboard feeds. After I deactivated FeedWordPress everything worked like a charm, and I now have ten different domains mapped to one WPMu ...
[Link]cac.ophony.org » Linked Pursuits: Writing and Golf
Editor’s note: in advance of this weekend’s U.S. Open, this is the first in a series of posts exploring the metaphorical relationship between golf and writing.
Golf can be a bit of a mystery to those who have never played. Mainly it probably appears (a) boring and (b) much easier than it really is. Writing can also look that way to the uninitiated, and in fact golf and writing have a lot in common.
Both are solitary, addictive pursuits of an ultimately unreachable perfection. How, you ask, is golf solitary, what with all the crowds and the playing partners and ...
[Link]WPMu Ed » The Design of Openness
Photo thanks to Bern@t’s Flickr stream.
Cole Camplese recently had a provocative post about open design that has me thinking about a few things that might frame some of the ideas that I think are key to imagining a loosely joined, open, and mashable community for teaching and learning.
I am thinking more about how openness should be built into the design process. Not really instructional design per say, but design in general … in my mind learning design is looking at the notion of building learning opportunities in a more broad sense than more strict instructional systems design.
... [Link]WPMu Ed » Twourse Design
Today I got to thinking about something while talking about building a community site: where is my community right now? Well, Twitter, and at this very moment I can see all kinds of cool things happening. I’m currently following two of my favorite people, Shannon Hauser and Brian Lamb, exchange ideas about music. They’re both excited about what thy are sharing and it is cool to watch and learn from. In fact, I can partake by tracking the dialog and following their links. Not to mention that at any moment I could jump in, even if after the fact. The coolest ...
cac.ophony.org » On Edupunk
Cacophony’s good friend Jim Groom (right) has recently coined a term that has the edublogosphere all atwitter: edupunk. It probably runs counter to the meaning behind the word to note, impressed, that The Chronicle of Higher Education’s blog, “Wired Campus,” picked up Jim’s phrase. Punks probably don’t care much what the Chronicle’s got to say.
Edupunk (here are musings and run downs by Mike Caulfield, Stephen Downes, and D’Arcy Norman) is a new name for ideas that have been bouncing around the progressive edublogosphere for some time, namely, that higher education humanity needs an alternative to proprietary course management systems ...
[Link]cac.ophony.org » From literacy to digiracy: Will reading and writing remain important?
This article from the May 16, 2008 issue of The Economist is provocative in its challenge to us as business people, educators, and, to a lesser extent, students.
The content aligns well with what has been the major themes of the recent annual symposiums (at least the last two; maybe the last three).
Are we doing anything different? I don’t mean little things, but big things — things that embody a significant change in communications quality. Quite frankly, I don’t think I am, and I find this a somewhat humbling, troubling conclusion. Am I too set in my ways? Do ...
[Link]cac.ophony.org » The 8th Annual Symposium on Communication and Communication Intensive Instruction
I was among the group of Fellows who attended the 8th Annual Symposium on Communication and Communication Intensive Instruction, held on May 9th, 2008. Despite the weather, the turnout was great and we saw a lot of lively exchanges of ideas. Esther Dyson’s and Richard Lederer’s Keynotes were interesting and entertaining, and we enjoyed each other’s company at the table discussion and over dinnner afterwards.
This year’s theme was ‘Miscommunication’. In the table discussion, Olga and I were with facilitators Gardner Cambell (Professor of English at the University of Mary Washington) and Ruth-Ellen H. Simmonds (Executive Director, One Stop Senior Services), ...
[Link]andremalan.net » In the Summer Time!
Summer has just started and I am already finding it to be perfectly fantastic.
The first new development of my Summer was moving out of traditional dormitory style residence into Suite style residence… aka… an apartment. I now have a kitchen to cook in (an activity that I really need a lot more practice with), a lounge and bathrooms all to myself and my two roommates instead of an entire floor of 22 people. I also get to share this apartment with the lovely Miss Amy Tipton, one of my favorite people in the whole wide world.
WPMu Ed » Finally, Course Aggregation Made Easy
photo credit: Tambako the Jaguar
Well, it took us over a year, and with several iterations along the way, but I think UMW Blogs will now be able to provide dead simple aggregation of posts from numerous, distributed blogs with very little work, but a little bit of money for the plugin extension ($50 to be exact). Henri Simeon’s MuTags plugin and the $50 extension we bought from him gave UMW Blogs a RSS feed for each and every site wide tag.
Once sitewide tags have an RSS feed, the whole problem of grabbing each student’s RSS feed, ...
[Link]WPMu Ed » This ain’t yo mama’s e-portfolio, part 3
So, to pick up on parts 1 and 2, part 3 is an examination of some of the uses and possibilities of feed-driven architecture for dealing with the varying ways we might understand a portfolio, which—as Stephen Downes notes here—is in the midst of a pretty significant transformation. A change premised on re-imagining the portfolio as not so much a static receptacle for work completed, but a dynamic space for both reflection and presentation of an on-going development, or “portfolio-ing” as Alan Levine’s comment points out. This shift parallels the way many are approaching their actual work in this field (and ...
[Link]cac.ophony.org » The humanities and social sciences in general education
I attended a particularly informative and inspiring session at the 4th Annual CUNY General Education Conference held last week at Baruch College. David Eastzer, a science teacher at City College, discussed his innovative anatomy syllabus (Beyond Anatomy and Physiology: Engaging Non-Majors by Incorporating Diversity and Social Science Perspectives on the Body). He approaches the material from a somewhat constructivist-historical perspective, actively encouraging students to think of science in terms of ideas to be reflected upon, rather than a set of facts to be memorized. His syllabus included texts which I would like use in my Sociology of the Body courses. I ...
[Link]WPMu Ed » This ain’t yo mama’s e-portfolio, part 2
So, in an attempt to galvanize my mania to its most chaotically productive for Faculty Academy 2008, I’ll go on with this e-portfolio madness, as promised. However, the comments on part 1 are already making me wonder whether this post shouldn’t be written by D’Arcy, Chris, Phaedral, or Cole (or perhaps all of them)?
That acknowledged, I want to particularly note Chris and Phaedral’s comments about the importance of each individual controlling the sequential nature of their portfolio, giving them full control over this nuanced space for extensive creativity, expression, and order. I couldn’t agree with either of them more, and ...
[Link]WPMu Ed » This ain’t yo mama’s e-portfolio, part 1
It’s been over a year now since my full-fledged burn, baby, burn conversation with Gardner Campbell about WordPress Multi-User, ELS Blogs, the Digital Five Ring Binder, and the underpinnings of re-imagining an online distributed space for teaching and learning that both encompasses and moves beyond e-portfolios, capturing a whole range of activities both for class and beyond.
This is a conversation that hasn’t happened in a vacuum, see Cole Camplese’s post about using the blog as an e-portfolio back in May, 2006 (and several subsequent iterations on that idea). Or Mike Caulfield’s posts here and here on the topic of ...
[Link]cac.ophony.org » The Gettysburg Address as a PowerPoint
What would it look like if Honest Abe had PowerPoint at his disposal on that fateful day in 1863?
Quite possibly, this.
Its creator, Peter Norvig, also describes his rationale here, and considers the value of PowerPoint in “PowerPoint: Shot with its own bullets,” which was published in The Lancet.
We don’t need to throw the baby out with the bullet-pointed bathwater, but the Gettysburg PowerPoint Presentation might prove useful for those discussing with students (or colleagues) what makes for good (and bad) PowerPoint.
[Link]Featured Blog » UMW’s Digital Literary Journals
Below are the three literary journals (ECOllective, The Zephyranthes, and Spindle) that were created this semester for Claudia Emerson’s Literary Journals class. Take a look to see some of UMW’s finest creative minds at work, as well as a wealth of talent from various national and international destinations.
cac.ophony.org » Seeking an Audience
A couple of weeks ago I showed a draft of my dissertation proposal to my advisor for the first time. I knew that the argument was not solid yet, but also felt that I needed feedback at this point of my writing process. So, I struggled to let go of my initial plan to hand in a polished and brilliant prospectus and met with him. After long reading and writing sessions in the library, I was happy to learn that the argument I had been building actually made sense. I also learned that I needed to create and discuss this ...
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