Blogs

I just ran across an interesting article about Abilene Christian University's iPhone Program. 650 freshmen with GPS devices. Interesting. See also this story about a university requiring GPS support of all students.

Designing for learning in Virtual Worlds

Seminar at Roskilde University

I edit the transdisciplinary studies book series with Jason Nolan

Towards Humane Technologies: Biotechnology, New Media and Ethics (Paperback)

For a long time I was working on a dissertation looking at Open Source technologies. Today, I did not turn that dissertation in. That project has been shelved. Today I turned in the first draft of a dissertation on the Critical Political Economy of New Knowledge Technologies. I have a ton of research on Open Source things, but in the end, I looked at all that has been done in the last few years and decided descriptive sts work on open source technologies didn't really interest me so much as much as cyberinfrastructures, e-social science, and virtual worlds. Which, I've been writing a good bit about in the last few years. So That's what the dissertation is about and its in draft.

Jamie's Ministry of Food, the celebrity chef's new TV series, is a powerful portrait of the socially excluded. It also reveals an enduring truth, says Felicity Lawrence: our diet today is as much about class as it always has been - and it will take more than a one-man mission to change that

[From Felicity Lawrence on Jamie Oliver's TV series Jamie's Ministry of Food | Life and style | The Guardian ]

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Given that we face the same sort of issues in the United States, with students coming into classes with various nutrition related illnesses, I think it might be worth considering some of the points made in this article about the issues about food in the U.K.

It is a bit off-topic, and it is nominally about a tv series, but I think it points toward some distressing issues that translate into computing behaviours also.

I was carousing around the site earlier today and ran across a really fun job posting. Check it out!
http://www.educause.edu/JobOpportunities/UniversityEthicalHackerPenetra/126930

In no particular order, shamelessly skimmed from a variety of sources:

Lisa Tripp's Design and Production of Media Resources course at Florida State University 
Lisa uses both a blog and wiki for her course, and it is a great example of how both can be used in a complementary way to support your curriculum.
The wiki (Using MediaWiki):
http://wikispace.ci.fsu.edu/LIS5313/index.php/Main_Page
Her WordPress blog for the course:
http://lis5313.blogs.ci.fsu.edu/

 
Check out all the examples that Stewart Mader provides at the end of the interview, under the question "What resources are out there to facilitate the use of wikis in education?"
http://www.ikiw.org/2008/04/10/interview-the-state-of-wikis-in-education/

Social Bookmarking in Plain English
http://www.commoncraft.com/bookmarking-plain-english

Social Networking in Plain English
http://www.commoncraft.com/video-social-networking

Wikis in Plain English
http://www.commoncraft.com/video-wikis-plain-english

Stewart Mader has been a "wiki evangelist" for a while, and his comments are well worth reading.

Start with the April 2008 interview with Mader on the State of Wikis in Education:
http://www.ikiw.org/2008/04/10/interview-the-state-of-wikis-in-education/