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Google, I’m Starting To Be Scared of You
The other day a good friend of mine took a jab at her ex-boyfriend, yelling, “My god! I mean, his homepage is The Satorialist. How absolutely ridiculous is that?!” The thing is, this comment kind of hit the nail on the head. It is pretty ridiculous, fittingly ridiculous. Then I wondered… what if said friend [...]
What’s Up With The Classroom?
An excerpt from my essay on the New Student & the need to update learning environments: As technology infiltrates our daily lives the world around us adapts to meet our new needs. For a case in point, let us look how our automobiles have been transformed by emerging technological trends. Car makers have made auxiliary [...]
Spring Cleaning Tidbits
I feel a bit scatterbrain these days. I need to purge some half-baked thoughts out of my noodle to focus on the impending final projects of this spring semester and the larger goals I need to set in motion this year. After all, 2009 is already nearly its first quarter’s end! Here are some things [...]
Multimodal. Sounds Kinky.
A picture is worth a thousand words.Below are some examples of multimodal literacy in its spectrum of utility. Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of American Empire is an example of how graphic novels are moving beyond entertainment and leisure reads to become tools for education and social action. Another notable political graphic novel is the [...]
New Instruments
Yesterday the ferocious winds knocked out my internet service, rendering my hours after work and before bed rather useless. The e-errand list was long. I had to print an updated assignment timeline for this spring semester, type out class notes and print my reading skills log to update on the train; all the latest versions [...]
Internet: The Door is Always Open. Thoughts on Electronic People Emerging From the Woodwork
I graduated from high school about 12 years ago. Today I was contacted by a man who student-taught in my 11th grade art class. He attached a photograph of a piece of art I had completed under his instruction. I remember the piece well (a still life completed without lifting the pencil) and him only [...]
The Internet Spectrum
Having yet to post more than a humorous picture on my class blog, I thought I’d compensate by posting about the Yale psychology class I just attended in my paint-streaked sweatpants and tattered Pink Floyd t-shirt. No, this was no University of Phoenix class, the internet’s ubiquitous online university. This was Academic Earth, a new [...]
Blah Blah Blog: Maiden Blog Entry for MSTU 4049
The spring semester has begun and I am very excited to be taking a course outside my curriculum and teaching department. The class explores how technology and language affect each other, how we’re within changing literacy trends, how we communicate and how we click. The course requires the creation and upkeep of a blog. Rather [...]
