6 January 2010 — Six more class daze?

New Newspaper? Or a better ebook? “The unique Skiff Reader makes its debut. Skiff, a Hearst-backed startup previously known as FirstPaper, will demonstrate a flexible, large screen e-reader optimized for newspapers and magazines. The Skiff Store will deliver the digital content via the Sprint 3G wireless network.” The small print: Sprint will offer the Skiff [...]

I disssssss-like crakin’ cold Tuesdays!

EMERGENCY!!! One second. Hold on… Something first, before the emergency… Let’s try a little template action on “Mr. PantyBomber SquarePants,” that totally weak  dude who tried to bring down a plane over poor old Tiny-Tim Detroit on Christmas day. Arrrggghhhhh! As if Detroit didn’t have enough problems with General Motors! Let’s run a class discussion [...]

8 December 2009

Photo of the day – Name the secret location; take the poll! For the sake of reference, here’s the image of our whiteboard on which the project and the notion of a collaboratory was described. Click on the image below to expand it: Here is an additional approach to the collaboratory: Each item I show [...]

A Day That Will Live in Infamy – 7 December 2009

Monday’s photo of the day – Dr. Mims after watching a story about Geoff Canada on CBS’s “60 Minutes” at http://bit.ly/5AYK89 Now this: “The Internet surrounds us like air, saturating our offices and our homes. But it’s not confined to the ether. You can touch it. You can map it. And you can photograph it. [...]

9 November 2009 – Week in Review

Two big lessons from last week, both part of an ongoing effort to grow an understanding of media, as well as to learn how the video elements of media work. Lesson One — Open Source computing: For our purposes we will define OS software by way of analogy. The Source is like a giant supermarket. [...]