Is WTF vulgar or inappropriate

I’m organizing a roundtable discussion on the use of social media in education.  To get attention, and as an example, I’m thinking about using the acronym WTF in the title.  Is that vulgar or inappropriate.  Does WTF mean the same thing as what the three letters stand for?  Has WTF been seen on TV or […]

TEDxNYED 2011

I had the great fortune to attend TEDxNYED on Saturday.  This was the second year I was able to make this awesome event.  Last year we heard from the likes of Lawrence Lessing, Michael Wesch, Henry Jenkins, and Amy Bruckman, just to name a few.  It was an amazing day.  This year was no less […]

Internet “Kill” switch

** Warning – this is a long post, but well worth the read ** The following exchange took place on a listserve I follow that is made up primarily of high level IT/Administrative folks at institutions around the world (but mostly in the US).  I have scrubed any personal information. I’m very interested in your […]

Destroying our rights to our private information

In a recent Tweet  I wrote “Set up a wiki for posting information about Facebook & how they are destroying our rights to our private information.” Marc Parry, from The Chronicle of Higher Education, responded with “marcparry @sorry_afk “Destroying our rights to our private information” Bit extreme? Nobody forces you to have a Facebook account.” […]

Reporting or Readers, which matters more to Jeff Young?

Jeff Young is the technology writer for The Chronicle of Higher Education.  In an article not that long ago he asserted that people were leaving Second Life in droves for opensim options.  Actually to summarize the article that way is unfair, there was a lot of other information there that was not entirely accurate and […]

UNC TLT Conference Plenary

The University of North Carolina Teaching and Learning with Technology Conference will be held entirely in Second Life and is free to all those who register.  I will be the plenary presenter at the opening of the conference on Tuesday, April 13th, at 9:00pm Eastern Time (6:00am Second Life Time).  The conference lasts for three […]

Academic iPad Wiki

I’ve been seeing many resources floating around already regarding the use of the iPad in education. I decided I wanted to start keeping track of those. Then I thought that it might be a great idea to get other to help, with the benefit that they would be able to see the resources also. So, […]

SLOODLE Moot Conference in SL this weekend

A great friend of mine is working on the SLOODLE Moot conference that is happening this weekend – FOR FREE – in Second Life.  Here are some of the details. https://www.sloodle.org/blog/?p=187 SLOODLE Moot 2010 is approaching! This weekend SLOODLE Moot – a free, online conference will be taking place in Second Life. A range of […]

FourSquare – love it or hate it?

For those of you who do not know what FourSquare it, you can look here or, from their FAQ, foursquare is a cross between a friend-finder, a social city-guide and a game that rewards you for doing interesting things.  We aim to build things to not only help you keep up with the places your […]

Technology as place?

Although I attended Sloan-C this year, virtually, one of my colleagues attended on site.  She forwarded to me a slideshow from one of the presenters, Steve Kerby from McDaniel College.  Steve talks about “Technology as Place: Designing Environments for Student-Centered Learning”. You can watch the presentation here: http://www2.mcdaniel.edu/skerby/presentations/Sloan_2009.html it’s about 16 minutes long. The link […]