thinking about education
First a word to my students: do as I say and not as I do. I know that this semester, I’ve really asked you to stretch yourselves in terms of using technology. You’re blogging and twittering and participating in a Ning. Tonight, we’ll be exploring Second Life as well. And you’re [...]
My last post was at the end of January, just about the time that I finished the data collection for my dissertation. I spent the next five months analyzing and writing and successfully defended my study on June 3, 2009. It took the rest of the summer to finish it and then I plunged back [...]
I tend to be a loner. I like to do things on my own, including learning. Given a choice, I would always choose to work alone on a project or learning activity. I’m comfortable in my own company. Working from home has only exacerbated that tendency.
But, yesterday, as I headed out to vote and then, [...]
It has taken me nearly two weeks to muster the energy to write this post. You see, I’m a Unitarian Universalist, and on Sunday, July 27, a gunman walked into the packed Knoxville church and opened fire. Two died and seven others were wounded. A letter found in his truck indicated that he harbored hatred [...]
I have encountered three examples in the past few weeks of using journals to learn. The first came from Ken Follett’s excellent novel, World Without End. One of the main characters is a woman who, going against the traditions of the day, becomes a doctor. As part of her own learning, she [...]
Indexed, Jessica Hagy’s blog, is perfect for visual learners like me. Each day, she creates a chart or graph on a different topic. Have fun exploring. And, if you get really hooked, her book has just been published, too.
I keep several blogs in addition to this one. One of them serves as the reflexive journal for my research project. Since I wanted choices about privacy and sharing, I went with Live Journal. I have been using it for the past year and am happy with it. My only friend is my advisor because [...]
May Heath Ledger rest in peace. Ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee.
I think I heard about the death of Heath Ledger on the news last evening. Now, this evening, Larry King is covering it on CNN, and the correspondents keep condemning the blogs for spreading bad information. After hearing it [...]
I was sort of surprised when I came to this blog only to discover that I haven’t posted since early June. I have plenty of excuses; the main one is that I’ve been doing a lot of posting over at the Classroom 2.0 community at ning.com. After years of sending my posts into cyberspace and [...]
France bans citizen journalists from reporting violence
From InfoWorld, an article describing the French government’s attempt to reign in citizen journalists by making it an offense for anyone to film and distribute acts of violence unless they are sanctioned journalists. So, they are trying to unblur the very blurry lines between bloggers and journalists. [...]