A couple weeks ago I applied for a grant from the Knight News Challenge for creation of a microreporting infrastructure — an idea I’ve been batting around for about a year now but haven’t had time to implement (check out, for example, this ghost town).
Not sure if I’ll get the grant or not, but [...]
Oct
27
2007
27
2007
Local Citizen Microreporting
Oct
23
2007
23
2007
Help me out with my proposal
There’s a story that Will Robinson tells, perhaps apocryphal, Â about a student that took their first draft of a paper, and posted it to Wikipedia. After a week or so they took it down, newly edited, fact checked and sourced.
Well, maybe this will work, and maybe it won’t, but I’m involved in writing an [...]
Oct
17
2007
17
2007
The proposal I'd like to write
So we’re about 20 hours into this week, and so far I’ve spent over 10 of those hours on drafting an academic technology plan for my institution.
I have trouble explaining why it’s so hard to draft, but perhaps if you’ve ever tried to tie a policy document into the greater fabric of policy documents at [...]
Oct
16
2007
16
2007
Brightcove Test
Been trying out Brightcove as a video service. Test film follows below:
If anyone has any thoughts on the use of Brightcove, please share.
Oct
15
2007
15
2007
With the exception of the multitasking bit
I think this video does a nice job of showing what a museum a university education has become:
(h/t Andy Rush)
Oct
15
2007
15
2007
Networked Learning and Distributed Reporting
If I go often to the well of what’s going on in the Politics 2.0 and Reporting 2.0 space, it’s because few areas are going through such a radical high stakes change.
Not change in a political sense, mind you. Much of the change going on is a rather frantic bid to make sure that new [...]
Oct
10
2007
10
2007
Front Page HuffPo
So after all the political stories I’ve labored over, I finally made front page on Huffington Post — with a story I wrote in 5 minutes while downing my morning coffee.
Oh well, I’ll take it! Thanks to the Off The Bus crowd who have been pushing hard to get these stories by amateurs like me [...]
Oct
8
2007
8
2007
Curatorial Teaching
Finally got around to listening to this. It’s good. It’s nascent, but maybe that’s why I love it so much:
http://learnonline.wordpress.com/2007/09/20/10-minute-lecture-george-siemens-curatorial-teaching/
It’s not a total solution to the sage-on-the-stage v. guide-on-the-side but it’s a great rethinking, and it’s very practical to implement.
It’s also refreshing that Siemens approach is not kick-against-the-pricks* (an approach I’m often guilty of) — [...]
Oct
8
2007
8
2007
Entrepreneurship meets Service meets Academic Engagement…
…and it’s not even that hard.
I’ve said before that one of the fundamental things the university has not come to terms with is that in an environment where failure is inexpensive, undergraduates can be pushed to solve real problems, rather than to practice solving problems they might encounter once they get out of college.
In the [...]
Oct
3
2007
3
2007
Support Music over Lawyers. Buy Radiohead.
The end is near. And that’s a very very good thing.
Radiohead is offering it’s newest album on it’s website for advance download.
The revolutionary thing? You pay what you want for it. Two dollars, ten dollars. Whatever. You make the call.
The experiment has even got mainstream investing sites abuzz, saying that if this works, it could [...]