My friend Kevin Deegan-Krause at Wayne State University just alerted me to a blog that is truly a treasure trove of information, opinion, and analysis on Facebook. Unit Structures, written by Fred Stutzman, a PhD student and teaching fellow at UNC’s School of Library and Information Science, offers much more than the more general reflections…
Another Semester of Wikiness
As I have for several semesters now, I once again required my students to create Wikipedia entries and then track them through the semester to see what happened to their creations. Once we reached the end of the semester, they had to write something for our class blog in which they discussed what they learned…
It’s Not Me!
No, this is not a post about identity theft. Instead, it is a post about multiple identities under the same name, none of whom are me, and how having a blog name liked Edwired can lead to a certain amount of confusion about there in the digital universe. Take, for example, a certain Edwired on…
Professors on Facebook
Of late there has been more and more discussion of faculty members using Facebook.com in their teaching or simply as a vehicle for connecting with students. An article in this week’s Chronicle of Higher Education by Sara Lipka raises a few interesting questions about this practice, including whether it is “creepy” (as one student put…