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Category: Change

  • Sexting vs “Spin the Bottle”

    It seems that there is quite a bit of coverage in the news media about a paper being presented Peter Cummings at the 78th Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences that sexting is no worse than the old fashion spin the bottle. Cummings says: Technology does change things, and there can be very serious…

  • If it ain’t personal, it isn’t professional

    If you don’t use tech, per se, in your daily life, at all levels, and you’re not comfortable with it, then it’s unlikely that you’re going to be as speedy (to embrace) technology,” noted Dr. ToddRothenhaus, senior vice president and chief information officer of Caritas Christi Health Care, the second-largest provider in Massachusetts. “If you’re…

  • Making use of the intimacy of cells – for intimate purposes

    This is an interesting way to look at using txting to teach. The BART (Be A Responsible Teen) project is trying to use txting because: “Right now, with the face-to-face method we have been using, kids come in for one and a half to two hour long sessions,” Cornelius [Judith Cornelius, Assistant Professor of Nursing…

  • Trust in Social Networks

    It didn’t surprise me very much that there is already work done on trust and social networks (Google Scholar), what did surprise me how StalkDaily and Mickeyy spread this weekend on Twitter. It seems that the social engineering method of vectoring viri is alive as well. This time, not working off porn or warez, but…

  • Hashing out a song among tweets

    This is an interesting article, with an even more interesting quotable passage: After class, instructors can encourage micro-blogging to support relationships among the people from the class and to further their learning. Teachers post tips of the day, questions, writing assignments, and other prompts to keep learning going. Some believe that Twitter is even more…