Posted on April 7, 2008 by Anne-Marie
Nothing, really? Except maybe…
I spent the weekend working on a project Shaun is just starting - a documentary that takes a geographic look at why Portland has become such a central place for comics creators and publishers. He’s had to push his production schedule way up because the Stumptown Comics Fest, which has [...]
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Posted on March 25, 2008 by Anne-Marie
Last year, Rachel and I reported on a survey we did the year before that looked at how librarians feel about different social software applications like blogs, wikis and the like (is that right? I think so - it’s a really long time ago now). We mainly found out that we [...]
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Posted on March 7, 2008 by Anne-Marie
Two things this morning - both touching on issues of digital learning, learning communities, learning socially and the big question - is higher ed closing students off from the kinds of tools and skills they’ll need to be lifelong learners?
Writer Response Theory provides this exercise to help students find their Social Bookmarking Soulmates. Basically the [...]
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Posted on February 23, 2008 by Anne-Marie
Here are three visualizations of the most popular social networking sites, mapped (and tree-mapped) geographically created by a research student at University College Dublin. It’s a nice reminder that no matter how many articles I run across about Facebook, Facebook privacy, Facebook Beacon and Facebook applications - Facebook like anything else is culturally situated and [...]
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Posted on January 28, 2008 by Anne-Marie
First off - the SAG awards are tonight, which might be our only awards show opportunity this season and Ryan Seacrest called in sick. It is like it is my birthday.
So this morning Barbara Fister pointed out a recent survey by the Annenberg School (the USC one) - a survey trying to examine “gaps [...]
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Posted on January 22, 2008 by Anne-Marie
This isn’t really a continuation of the Caleb Crain post, more like something you might find on the shelf nearby.
Going through my feeds this morning I came across a couple of different things that got me thinking about reading, reading online, and reading in new ways –
First there’s this project, kind of like social reading [...]
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