Author Archives: Reverend

Brief History of the Future

Posted on April 7, 2014 by Reverend

John Naughton’s 1999 history of the internet, A Brief History of the Future: From Radio days to Internet Years in a Lifetime, arrived at my house this afternoon. I plan on reading it during my imminent travel to Dallas, but I … Continue reading →

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ARPANET: the First Decade

Posted on April 4, 2014 by Reverend

In response to my post about the “Three Visions of “ARPANET,” Paul Bond did some digging on the internet yesterday around the history of ARPANET as a way to demonstrate the possibilities of targeted Google searches limited to specific extensions, such … Continue reading →

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Domain of One’s Own: as Limitless as the Web

Posted on April 3, 2014 by Reverend

UMW’s Domain of One’s Own is the focus of David Raths’s recent article “An E-Portfolio With No Limits” in Campus Technology. I have to immediately note how impressed I was with his reporting. Raths did his research; reached out to several … Continue reading →

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Three Visions of ARPANET

Posted on April 2, 2014 by Reverend

I’ve recently written about Larry Lewin’s 2001 guide Using the Internet to Strengthen Curriculum in regards to it’s argument that educators need to be “taming the web” for their students. Offering an approach to making research on the web palatable by trying … Continue reading →

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Rotisserie Chicken

Posted on April 2, 2014 by Reverend

Yesterday was a fairly quiet April Fool’s Day. I didn’t see much on Twitter, didn’t read any scam newspaper articles/ads, and the folks on UMW’s campus didn’t seem to be feeling it either. That’s fine with me. Good pranks are … Continue reading →

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Re-routing Cyberinfrastructures

Posted on March 31, 2014 by Reverend

Mike Caulfield has a really interesting post on the future of personal cyperinfrastructures. The crux of the argument is while Domain of One’s Own is right, true and beautiful, no one really wants to manage their own bit of a … Continue reading →

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Domains in (Stop) Motion

Posted on March 31, 2014 by Reverend

On Friday Martha Burtis made an amazing bit of stop-motion animation for the Domain of One’s Own project. It was designed for the EagleVision digital signage we have up around campus as a way to promote the project—explaining the absence … Continue reading →

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Reclaim the Handout

Posted on March 30, 2014 by Reverend

Ryan Brazell shared the prep work he did last week framing UMW’s various digital projects for the AAC&U Diversity, Learning, and Student Success conference in Chicago. Just yesterday he presented alongside Tim Owens and Mary Kayler on UMW Domains, the Online Learning … Continue reading →

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Teaching & Technology in the Afterglow at Baruch College

Posted on March 29, 2014 by Reverend

I want to share my impressions of Baruch’s 17th Annual Teaching and Technology Conference before the sun sets on my memory and the experience dissipates in the afterglow of what was. I had a total blast doing it. I have deep personal ties and … Continue reading →

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Virtualization

Posted on March 28, 2014 by Reverend

Since I wrote a post last month about agile edtech, I’ve been thinking and talking with Tim Owens a fair amount about what a virtualized sandbox for DTLT (through something like Amazon Web Services) might look like. What would it … Continue reading →

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