Posted in culture, epistemology, perturbation, popular culture, web2.0 on Jan 26th, 2006 2 Comments »
or, How A Meme With A Reference To A Jew For Jesus Hip Hop Artist Reminded Me Of Dangerous Ideas
I don’t really remember how I got there, but I ended up at memepool, the brainchild of del.icio.us founder Joshua Schachter and Jeff Smith. Posted on January 5th, 2006, was an entry which read:
The popularity [...]
Posted in pedagogy, teaching, technology, tools, universal design for learning, web2.0 on Jan 19th, 2006 Comments Off
From visual searches to verbal searches, (without intending to pull an Annie Hall) Marshall “The Medium Is The Message” McLuhan must be having a celestial party right now.
Podzinger is a search engine for podcasts. Rather than allowing you to just search for a podcast based on the title, description, tags, or categories (as podcasting [...]
Posted in flickr, technology, tools, universal design for learning, web2.0 on Jan 7th, 2006 3 Comments »
Has anyone stopped to think about how computers might be different if the first widespread human-personal computer input device was the sketch pad and not the keyboard? I usually try to avoid the googly-eyed “wow” factor of new technologies, but this one, Retrievr, is very cool and has the potential for facilitating access for [...]
Posted in culture, epistemology, popular culture, questions, technology on Dec 31st, 2005 Comments Off
Here are some things that are making me think as we transition into 2006:
Joanna Weiss predicts that 2005 will mark the beginning of the end of serendipity.
George Siemens is grappling with the nature of meaning making, learning, and subjectivity.
Doug of Borderland is searching for a “broadened conceptualization of curriculum.”
Lisa Lynch and Bob Stein of the [...]
Posted in community of practice, epistemology, perturbation, technology, tools on Dec 28th, 2005 Comments Off
Here are some worthwhile and interesting responses to and critiques of my last post, The Emergence of Meaning: Wikipedia As Object-Centered Sociality:
Artichoke posted a response positing, “‘What does it do?’ takes precedence… over what it might mean.”
Stephan Downes writes, “…I read the value of Wikipedia differently…. Wikipedia’s article selection also varies – while editors [...]
