Tag Archives: communication

Th Movie and Music Industries are Hypocrites With SOPA and C-11

I’ve just come across a site about remixing with three superb videos. They are interesting and entertaining, and don’t end when they appear to be concluding, as you can see from the screenshot below. I strongly recommend http://mediaatbrooks.wordpress.com/2012/02/01/open-content-and-is-everything-a-remix/ and here’s the first … Continue reading

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Moving a gMail Draft from One Device to Another

it was fun discovering how I could move from device to device in gMail! Continue reading

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Hello HTC Loaner

The delivery man woke us up at 8:05 with my loaner from Samsung. It’s an HTC Legend (I think). I spent a couple of hours making sure I’d saved everything I wanted from my S2, and reading the instructions on … Continue reading

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Chronicle, Context, and Narrative

Humans think in narrative. We love stories. Give us two or three incidents, and we grab a plot to tie the incidents together and make them meaningful to us. The web is made up of what Weinberger called Small Pieces … Continue reading

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Dreaming The Curriculum – A Re-Post from 2006

With the rapidly changing web environment, much writing is ephemeral, and becomes lost in the past. This is a post I think worth re-posting, about the process of creating curriculum. Most of the links no longer work. From 2006 – Dreaming the Curriculum: … Continue reading

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My Social Media Life

I’ve been playing on the web, in the cloud, for years, and this is a description of the last couple of days. I started reading articles about Google+ (Google Plus) a couple of days ago, and added links on Twitter. … Continue reading

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Kindle App Academic Possibilities

After seeing, with some envy, what a colleague could do on her iPad 2, I decided I wanted to find out more about the academic usefulness of what I could do with the books I read on my Kindle app … Continue reading

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Texting and the Classroom

I have set up some systems to scavenge information on what I’m interested in, or rather, on who “highlights” links with information I might be interested in. (A side-note – during my busy seasons, I simply delete the emails without … Continue reading

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More on My Samsung Galaxy Tab

My Samsung Galaxy Tab Home Screen Does it make me disloyal to my love for Apple? I love my MacBook Air, but I bought myself a Samsung Galaxy Tab. My friends say I’m betraying Mac, but here’s what I said … Continue reading

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Weak Website: Poor Marketing

We were visiting older friends today, when a health issue prevented us from our plan of going to a restaurant. The host suggested pizza, and I went to his computer and googled the name of the town and “pizza” and … Continue reading

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