My PhD student Misha Griffith pointed me to the website bloggingheads.tv, where two people are shown in video dialog on a particular topic. Unlike the more popular television format of political debate programming like Crossfire, the commentators on bloggingheads engage in much more civil and thoughtful dialog on the issues. As I watched a couple…
Tag: Academic Commons
The Top Ten List
Back in the day, or as one of my students said not long ago, “back in the olden days” (meaning the 1970s), there was a punk band in Washington, D.C. called The Original Fetish whose greatest hits included “Standing in Line at Studio 54”, “I’m Glad That Elvis is Dead”, and “Surfin’ Nazis.” My favorite,…
Can You Hear Me Now?
Episode 17 of our Digital Campus podcast is now available. In this episode, Dan, Tom, and I discuss the future of cell phones as platforms for educational purposes and what the pending entry of Google into the cell phone marketplace with Android will mean for the industry and consumers. And, as has been the case…
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…