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Update:  Ha ha — Matthew Ragan and I downloaded it and sped it up in VLC player, and guess what — It Works! (It’s heavily treated, with a lot of vocal articulation removed, but hey).
Which, actually, just proves my point. We’re better than the press….

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I’m going to check this out for myself [...]

Was talking to Jon Udell last night about various things, and I went into my current rant that while the iPad doesn’t limit users from using the open web, it engages in the pernicious activity of “retraining consumers”, that is taking users who have become comfortable in the co-creative space of the web, and teaching [...]

Because tying profit to practice works just as well in the education sector as it worked in the health and home mortgage sectors.
Don’t believe me? Watch the video below of admissions reps for for-profit colleges “advising” students.

There are so many problems with public Higher Education now, absolutely. And yeah, it feels sometimes like I’m [...]

I’m putting together a statistics of public health course, and this post got me thinking — how hard would it be to build a Facebook app that went in, pulled up your friends list, along with age and gender, and then just ran the probabilities for death and chronic illness, assigning each person a date [...]

D’Arcy’s got a post on the recent Ethan Zuckerman presentation, and like me, he’s taken to this word xenophilia. It’s a neat presentation — if you haven’t watched it yet, you should.
Zuckerman talks about the limitations of Twitter and such things in the talk, but he actually begins with a success of Twitter — [...]

There’s a new article in Inside Higher Ed about Big Data, Google Books and the Humanities which is worth reading.
However, I think the one thing that is not being foregrounded enough in the spate of Google Books and the humanities articles is the impact this can have on UNDERGRADUATE research and teaching, which is going [...]

Wired Campus reports that for students IM has surpassed text messaging even as more have mobile access to IM software via smartphones:
Text messaging has overtaken not just e-mail but also instant messaging in popularity. Ninety-seven percent of students use text messages as their main form of communication, as opposed to 30 percent for e-mail and [...]

I gave a seminar last week to the Blended Learning class some of our faculty are taking. It was on what education is starting to look like in a world of open content — but to start I had to give them a model of what exactly it is that they do right now. One [...]

I am involved with a project for my school called the American Democracy Project, a neat little multi-campus thing that intersects with the technology and engaged pedagogy foci of my job. And we have a group of people on campus that are involved in that project, people interested in bringing a civic engagement curriculum into [...]