Apologies for the late, brief post. Schedule willing tomorrow, I’ll update and expand this.
I just want to say how – is frustrating the word? perhaps alienating? – it’s been, reading Crystal’s analysis of “Netsp […]
it strikes me that Lessig’s Free Culture reads very much like an oral presentation: many call-backs to previous ideas, often worded in very similar ways, and especially many repeats of his central claims or m […]
What do we make of Lessig’s use of the verbal “queering”? cf. Free Culture 167, in a critique of the war on drugs: “When you add together the burdens on the criminaljustice system, the desperation of generat […]
Maybe it’s that I play a lot of video games, but on nearly every page of James Paul Gee’s What Video Games Have to Teach Us about Learning and Literacy, I found myself underlining happily, writing “Yes!” in the […]
Just thought I’d share a little something I cooked up back in 2003 for a class entitled “The Writer as Teacher.” The final assignment was
to do Pedagogy Bites: two or three pages based on the Grace Paley, Max J […]
I have the strangest sort of headache.
For the past several days, I’ve been trying to cram my cranium full of thoughts on the use of interactive/information technology in writing classes: I’ve read much of How Peo […]
Running around and around the blogosphere, doing my darnedest not to get *too* caught up – that “speed sufficient to keep from crashing” thing again – I think I’m finally starting to get a sense of some of the ke […]
For all you non-existent followers out there, you can now non-follow me at majoringinmeta.commons.gc.cuny.edu. Maybe not as mellifluous off the tongue, but way snazzier and more plugged in. And it’ll be even […]
In non-iPad app related news I also share @awandt’s feelings of disappointment that the iPad has no forward facing cameraand wouldn’t be surprised if AT&T network-related concerns were at the root of this decision. This camera (or lack-there-of) news was also revealed in @jugoretz’s post: Early iPod Thoughts.
of – Scott @Scottvoth posted this week with some more news about changes to the Commons. The Wiki section of the Commons is due for a little upgrading. I have to say
not just me, I promise! Tamar Zilkha @tamarzilkha posted some thoughts on the matter as well. Watching Eric Holder dance around the issues inherent in the Arizona law
and interesting blogs or get a sense of what’s going on here in the community. This week, his post was delayed because, he writes, he “spent Mother’s Day being praised and lavished with
vs. Kennedy vs Tree Sitters vs Science. Irreverence aside about long titles the follow up post, Representing Courage, is a really beautiful post from the author about the genuine conflict a researcher in the
how Omeka, Dr.Ng and students are helping to preserve the legacy of our very own Queens College and it’s place in the civil rights movement. Take a look through the archives and if you happen to have anything to contribute let us
to be outdone, Appalachian Anthropology reposted Blakenship vs. Kennedy vs Tree Sitters vs Science. Irreverence aside about long titles the follow up post, Representing Courage, is a really