Instead of prattling on here, as I’ve been known to do, I thought I’d switch things up and embed a video in which I… prattle on! This is a co-presentation with Denis Tenen broadly titled “Hacking the Archive”; we gave it during CCNMTL’s New Media in Education conference, which took … Continue reading
It had been a while since I’d attended a New Media Consortium conference — five years, to be exact. The approximate lifespan of a rabbit — or of any interest in Second Life as an educational platform. Way back in 2007 it seemed like at least every other session was … Continue reading
My favorite part of Through the Looking-Glass is Alice’s late encounter with a very clumsy and Lewis Carroll-like White Knight in a chapter entitled “‘It’s My Invention’” . The Knight offers to sing Alice a comforting song, and Alice reluctantly accepts (“‘Is it very long?’ Alice asked, for she had … Continue reading
Stray visitors may be forgiven for wondering what *did* happen during 2011: was disaster adverted? Is he alive, and if so did he have a thought? So: yes, yes, and yes; chalk up this still interlude to blogger’s block, pithier observation-release venues, and — most of all — the day … Continue reading
This video has nothing directly to do with education or libraries or technology or anything else I usually prattle on about here. But as we post another lap around the track, I think we can all derive inspiration from it — whatever we’re doing to stave off ruin. Happy New … Continue reading
Looking for a way to give your pet theory some legs on the internet? The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) in the UK has an idea. Actually the RSA has had many, many ideas over its 250 years of promoting “a progressive, inclusive and … Continue reading
At work today: one of our periodic, inevitable, spirited conversations about the oft-ridiculed yet oft-cited notion of a “digital native.” We revisited Marc Prensky’s 2001 framing of such (first hit on Google, for all you “digital natives” searching for yourselves) called “Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants” — a piece festooned … Continue reading
Data just wants to get closer and closer and closer, it wants to be petted, it wants you to play with it. Forget the mouse, the screen wants you to touch it — wants you to wear it. Actually, forget the screen, data wants right into your eye. Aided Eye, … Continue reading
My ladies and gentlemen please this CriticalCommons presentation of predigitalscholarshipdownfall to enjoy:
By now I’m something of a conference veteran, or, to be more precise, a repeat flâneur at a variety of conferences. Usually I’m presenting at these gatherings, but rarely do I feel like a true member of the community of academics, lawyers, technologists, or administrators that I happen to be … Continue reading