I just created my first podcast (for work) which includes a presentation I did on blogging technology. Check it out, and subscribe to hear future sessions (which I’m involved in, but not presenting). e-Pedagogy session homepage Click on Blogs: Uses in an Educational Setting for info on the session I presented at. See the e-Pedagogy …
Turns out all that business about IM and e-mail distractions lowering your IQ wasn’t quite right after all. Might be true, since I remembered blogging about it in the first place. (it looks like Blogger’s “Blog This” doesn’t include the link in Safari…sorry it’s gone)
Here’s a good read about the increasingly important role of Google on the Internet (oh, the irony of where I’m posting this). Among the things potentially in the future of Google are a variety of Internet-based applications which would allow a user to free himself from his desktop, or to essentially use “his computer” at …
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4214516.stm If nothing else, this tragedy has highlighted the importance of the news medias’ watchdog role: to be critical of the government, no matter who is in power or how tragic the times may be.
John is a PhD candidate at the University of Wisconsin - Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication. He studies the social impact of media technology law and policy, with a special emphasis on copyright. He also is an instructional technology consultant for DoIT-Academic Technology.
John doesn't update his blog often, and many of the thoughts are probably half-baked. While the web has sort of an eternal memory, the current and future reader is urged not to take all of this too seriously.
Think of this blog as "John thinking out loud."
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