Raise the Bar: Eight Reasons I Hate Your Screencast by Mark Lassoff :...
Raise the Bar: Eight Reasons I Hate Your Screencast by Mark Lassoff : Learning Solutions Magazine Screencasts-digital video recordings of computer screens, often with audio narration or added video of...
View ArticleAdult Coloring Books, the British Museum, and the Adjacent Possible
Here is how I took a little pause from #clmooc today. Public domain from the British Museum. Click on image to go to site. Adult coloring book treatment using the image manipulation tool SnagIt, but...
View ArticleTechnology changes how authors write, but the big impact isn’t on their style
Technology changes how authors write, but the big impact isn’t on their style “Our writing instruments are also working on our thoughts.” Nietzsche wrote, or more precisely typed, this sentence on a...
View ArticleFail, Try Again
At the university I work at, we have an employment classification called “Instructor”. In our department, English, there are five of us. We teach full-time, we get benefits, and I actually have an...
View ArticleDigital Humanist
The quote above comes from a short interview with Laura Braunstein who is the Digital Humanities and English Librarian at the Dartmouth College Library. Something shifted a bit inside me as I read...
View ArticleDigital Public Library of America » Back to School at DPLA
What’s on your checklist at the start of this school year?✓ Blank notebooks✓ Sharpened pencils,✓ Free, online ready-to-use education resources? Check! ‘ Source: Digital Public Library of America » Blog...
View ArticleHow Experts Can Help a General Audience Understand Their Ideas
Nancy Duarte advises us how to be more “audience aware” for presentations. I especially like the “before/after” image whose graphic intelligence quotient has been raised. I, also, love the iceberg...
View ArticleI Contradict Myself Very Well
From Leaves of Grass: The past and present wilt — I have fill’d them, emptied them, And proceed to fill my next fold of the future. Listener up there! what have you to confide to me? Look in my face...
View ArticleBeautiful Curatorial Noise? IDK.
In my last post I wrote about how much noise was generated in my email from just five newsletters. I have always thought that curation by others would help create a signal, but it appears to me that...
View ArticleCertainly I’m Wrong
Just finished reading Venkatesh Rao’s newsletter “Breaking Smart”. It is a breath of honest air even if it sometimes stinks of the fishmonger, hangovers, and last night’s tuna surprise. I know that...
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