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Category: Change

  • My 2010 Predictions

    Well 2009 was certainly a transitional year for the type of tech that I follow. We seem to have moved from a world with clear definitions of media type to one where those types are starting to blur. This blurring seems to be due to one factor, the shift toward ubiquitous, real time data. This…

  • Purdue and the Back Channel

    While it is only experimental, Purdue is starting to test how to make use of the “back channel” in a lecture in the form of an application called “Hotseat“. The students seem to like it. “Hotseat is turning out to be a nice innovation. I’m seeing students interact more with the course and ask relevant…

  • US Lawmakers and Cyber Bullying

    It seems that cyberbullying legislation is going to take a while to move through the US. Wired has a story today on the bill that proposes to target “Serious, repeated hostile communications made with the intent to harm“. This seems to be a noble cause, but obviously it can not be that simple. The case…

  • Rethinking delivery – another example of 50% – or is it?

    Between getting photos and videos done from the field trip that I took with Science 100 last week and some of the meetings that I’ve had this week, I’ve noticed something has changed in the world. This is an obvious change, but it seems that very few people want to accept it. This change is…

  • More info on Generation txt – It doesn’t hurt

    While I was away in Jasper, one of the profs had some of her recent work picked up by seemingly everyone and as it fits well with what I’ve posted before I couldn’t wait to get home and add it to my collection of research on sms speak, neologisms and the like. Connie Varnhagen has…