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Let me make this clear…

Published by Reverend September 11th, 2008 in insructional technology. 1 Comment

…I love Tony Hirst! And let there be no confusion, the stuff he is doing at OpenLearn makes me giddy with excitement. Case in point, take a look at the latest developments in the OU Course Spamming saga he and his people have whipped up. I really am lucky to be working when I am, [...]

Damn kids these days…

Published by Reverend July 2nd, 2008 in insructional technology. 9 Comments

One of the greatest plagues of the educational blogosphere is the whole idea of labeling generations of learners in these pre-fabricated categories of millennials, digital natives, immigrants, NetGens, or what have you. Now I have no more evidence that these terms are harmful, as the innumerable people who insist on using them have that [...]

Dawn of the Dead, take 3

Published by Reverend April 28th, 2008 in Formative 10, YouTube, insructional technology, mashup and movies. 1 Comment

Finally, the last and mashed installation of my Dawn of the Dead (1978) series which took far more technical and creative energy than I originally imagined. The idea behind this experiment was simple: create three commentaries upon the social/political sub-themes dealing with consumer culture embedded within Dawn of the Dead using video-based approaches. [...]

Marking Digital History at UMW

Published by Reverend April 26th, 2008 in James Farmer, UMW Blogs, civil rights, google, insructional technology, maps, museums, open education and umw centennial. 3 Comments

Jeff McClurken’s Adventure’s in Digital History seminar is (or is it “was” now?) a pretty amazing thing. The driving logic of the course was that four distinct projects, each dealing with a unique facet of local history, were be framed for the world-at-large as online digital resources. This is a quite ambitious goal, and [...]

WPMu as eduglu?

Published by Reverend March 9th, 2008 in insructional technology, open education, plugins, widgets, wordpress multi-user and wpmu. 3 Comments

I find myself experiencing a kind of joyful obsolescence at the moment while reading the recent stream of posts from Andre Malan’s blog. I’m nothing short of blown away, and if you are at all interested in WPMu as an educational publishing platform (that will, indeed, prove the prototype of a “BlackBoard killer” sooner [...]

Blogs: the look of the future?

Published by Reverend February 3rd, 2006 in insructional technology. 1 Comment

Matthew Levine’s article “In Search of the Holy Grail” on A List Apart offers a straight-forward way to incorprate a three column layout for web designers with lean code, minimal CSS, and a consistent code order, herertofore a sloppy and difficult task. Levine makes a very interesting point in his article that is excerpted below:
Three [...]