A ChatGPT Assignment
When I last taught Media and Cultural Studies six years ago, students worked on an Open Education Resource (OER) for the class. I wrote about this experiment in our new…
Thinking about Educational Cooperatives
One of the many biographies of women artists that I listened to on my daily walks this year was Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits by Linda Gordon. Lange was…
Why We Need the #IndieWeb: A Short History
Back in 1993, as a young computer science graduate student, I created my first web page. To do so, I had to learn a new language, HyperText Markup Language (html),…
IndieWeb Overview
I wrote last week that I learned a lot about the IndieWeb from @jgmac1106 (Greg McVerry). Because I was just getting started, Greg wanted to interview me about the IndieWeb onboarding process…
The New Education
I recently read The New Education: How to Revolutionize the University and Prepare Students For a World in Flux by Cathy N. Davidson. Davidson has long been an academic hero…
Surveillance Capitalism and IndieWeb
I've been thinking a lot about the Cambridge Analytica/Facebook controversy lately. In light of the revelations about how Facebook has used our data and allowed others to use our data,…
Creating a Digital Identity
Each year since 2011, the University System of New Hampshire (USNH) has sponsored an Academic Technology Institute (ATI) in which 10 faculty from each of the 4 institutions in the system…
White Balance in Digital Photography
I've been experimenting with all the different settings on my camera. Yesterday's experimentation focused on the "white balance" control. This is a concept that I never learned when I was…
Holdover Design
Although I've categorized this post as related to Integrated Clusters, I've done that for my own ease of finding it in the future. The post is really about Design Thinking which…
Student Engagement
I took advantage of our unexpected ice day today to write about the cluster initiative and student engagement. Two ideas that have arisen from conversations about clusters that might have…
Information Archives
I've been spending Wednesday mornings in the library this summer working on my Freaks and Geeks project in the company of other academics working on their own projects. One of…
Apple vs. The FBI
I've been reading a lot about the controversy surrounding the court order compelling Apple to help the FBI break into the phone used by one of the San Bernardino killers,…
HCF Redux
Three episodes into Halt and Catch Fire and I still can't make up my mind about whether it is an interesting show or not. I really want to like this…
HCF
I just watched the pilot episode of AMC's new show, Halt and Catch Fire, which airs in Mad Men's Sunday 10pm slot. I was pretty intrigued by the slew of…
Social Media Round Up
Now that the craziness of the start of the semester has begun to slow down, I thought I'd do a quick hit on a variety of social media topics that…
When is Failure Really Failure?
If you are involved in higher education in any way, you have heard about Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). I first heard of them back in the Fall of 2011…
Whistle-blowers
Two whistle-blowers are in the news today: Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden. Manning is the Army soldier who was convicted yesterday of 17 of the 22 counts against him. He…
Software Controls Users
I'm often surprised that some of the most valuable lessons I learned back in the late 1980's have not become standard practice in software development. Back then, I worked for…
The Olympics, Technology and “Reality”
The 2012 Summer Olympics are nearly over. I haven't watched them much, mostly because I can't stand the way they are covered by NBC and its affiliates, especially in prime…
Interaction Design
I'm reading an interesting book by Janet Murray called Inventing the Medium: Principles of Interaction Design as a Cultural Practice. She is articulating things that I've thought for a long…
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