My Friday afternoon session at the AHA annual meeting was much more productive, largely because it was more focused on things Russian and East European. That meant the audience was there to learn about content resources rather than about “tech tools” as in my morning session. Steve Barnes presented his Gulag project, which is now close to done. There was a…
Tag: Social Networking
Talking Heads X 2
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…
Teens and Social Media
The Pew Internet Project released the results of its latest study–Teens and Social Media–on December 19 and this report is a must read for anyone who teaches, whether at the primary, secondary, or post-secondary level. There is a lot in this report to ponder, but from my perspective, the most interesting findings fall into five…
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,…