Category: Social Creatures

  • Post 2K – Thoughts on blogging in a continuous enrollment class

    One of the courses that I’m looking into retooling right now is wanting to set up a course blog. And while I haven’t met the instructor yet, my initial trepidation about setting one up for him/her is shared by at least one of the other people on the project. Why? Well, they want to use…

  • Google’s Google Me – Social Circle/Social Content

    So I was logging into my work machine this morning and I accidentally hit return after I had put my name into Chrome’s magic bar. So Google diligently went off and performed the vanity search on just my first name. The result this time was different than before. I noticed a new BETA tag. Google had pulled…

  • Into the mind of …

    Disaster? I don’t know, but if you want to see what I’m putting into my PhD paper, you can get a preview through my Delicious account. If you want to see what I’ve tagged so far – take a look.

  • Vanity searches now not so vain, rather becoming par for the course

    PEW has just released a new report looking at how people manage their online identity and they found: When compared with older users, young adults are more likely to restrict what they share and whom they share it with. “Contrary to the popular perception that younger users embrace a laissez-faire attitude about their online reputations,…

  • What are the new literacies that schools need to teach?

    This came up this weekend talking to my wife. It seems that in her school, there is a cadre of teachers who think that kids need to learn “keyboarding” to be literate in the new reality that will be where they find themselves in the future. This remark was quickly retorted by another teacher who…