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1975: And the Changes to Come

February 15th, 2008 · Ryan · No Comments ·

[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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Planning for the spring semester

February 6th, 2008 · Barbara · 4 Comments ·

Dry Erase Planning

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Fear 2.0: the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative Digidramas

January 31st, 2008 · Barbara · 1 Comment ·

This week I had the honor to make a presentation at ELI in San Antonio with 4 remarkable women: Leslie Madsen-Brooks, Laura Blankenship, Barbara Ganley and Martha Burtis…”The Fear 2.0 Dream Team Bloghers” as Brian Lamb reportedly referred to us later in the week.

Our topic was Fear…the fear that we as educators, technologists, individuals [...]

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AppleTV part 2: fairly usable?

January 19th, 2008 · Ryan · 1 Comment ·

This year’s Macworld keynote left me giddy with excitement about Apple’s new offerings. But I’m not talking about the MacBook Air … I’m talking about the AppleTV.
Yes yes, I know - the AppleTV has been around for quite awhile now, I’ve already posted about it once, and anyway all Apple really gave us was a [...]

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Fear 2.0, Web 2.0, Life 2.0 & Language Learning: Why “stranger danger” isn’t.

January 8th, 2008 · Barbara · 12 Comments ·

In a few weeks, I will have the pleasure and the privilege of presenting at the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI), with 4 other women teachers/technologists. I am honored to be a part of this extraordinary group of women, thinkers, and troublemakers (heh heh). The conference title and theme is “Connecting and Reflecting: Preparing [...]

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