Category: Resources

  • MAS.968 – Call for Action – a mobile course

    I caught wind of this on one of the feeds while I was away, so I checked out the syllabus: Call for Action (CfA) is an intensive studio seminar on contemporary technologies and activism. How can mobile networked devices be used for social change, politics, and expression? Can Web2.0 techniques be applied to help to…

  • Jiggy with Bio

    Thanks to an old student for this: If this is going on at Stanford, why are so many other places so afraid of using video as a serious tool for student expression?

  • TLRP – TEL – Education 2.0

    Teaching and Learning Research Programme – Technology Enhanced Learning is a group out of the UK that has put out an article that looks at the uses of technology, specifically web2.0 in education to arrive at Education 2.0. Some of the points that this report brings to the forefront are: it is never only a…

  • Two edges of mobile

    As I’m cutting through emails, tweets and stared items in my reader, I’m finding that a whole pile of stuff happened while I was “gone”. One of the things that I remember “starting” before I left was something about Pennsylvania banning, or trying to ban cell phones (and other mobile devices) in schools. I remember…

  • Stuart Brown on Play

    What is it about “modern society” that so strongly believes that play is merely infantile? Stuart Brown presents an amazing talk on play and how it seems to be a natural extension of any intelligence. It seems to be the extension of some work ethic gone mad that “we” need some reason to do something,…