Monthly Archives: November 2006

Scribbling on video

Participatory is the lodestare for those trying to steer the social networking juggernaut towards actual improvement of education. As described in Henry Jenkins’s Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century (a white paper on the MacArthur Digital Media Learning site), participatory culture is our technologically-delivered hope for banishing passivity, instilling …

November 20, 2006 – 5:45 pm | By Mark Phillipson | Posted in Metawriting, Play | Comments (1)

On activating digital collections

I was on the verge of crafting a blog entry expressing fears and reservations about Second Life when it occurred to me that skepticism has gotten too much play here of late. I’m really not so grumpy. To try to prove that, I’ll slap down here a few paragraphs from a mini-manifesto I’ve been working …

November 13, 2006 – 12:37 pm | By Mark Phillipson | Posted in Academia, Libraryworld | Comments (0)