I was talking with a student who works in our center on Friday and he reported that he had slept about 2 hours in the past 24 or so, studying hard, and yet he was still not caught up on the work he had been assigned to do for the end of the semester. [...]

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Yes it has been a while since I have blogged, I admit it. There is this pesky little thing called the end of the semester that we are dealing with which, as we all know, is the time when technology (yes I am talking to you Dell Profiles) and time sort of collapse and [...]

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If you’re interested in following the goings-on at CALICO w/ IALLT 2008, there are several options:
1) The #iallt tweme, both at Hashtags and Twemes
2) Felix, Barbara, Doug and I will might be taking turns live-blogging here on the site.
3) The IALLT Learning Ning.
Are you at CALICO w/ IALLT and taking notes somewhere? Let us know [...]

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I thought I would share a great clip I found on YouTube from Mary Ann Mengel from a Center for Learning and Teaching in the Penn State system. It gives a great overview of educational uses of Second Life including educational locations, tools, and learning archetypes that are applicable to Second Life. This is [...]

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[cross-posted on tech-o tuesday]
If you haven’t heard of the 1962 book that predicts (or, tries to predict) what technology will look like thirteen short years from the date of publication, please check out the Flickr photoset recently posted by Derrick Bostrom. I’m most frightened interested by the obsession with punch-card systems for language translation, making [...]

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