e-Literate

Present is Prologue

Author: Michael Feldstein

  • Twitter in the Classroom

    Sarah Milstein, author of the O’Reilly Radar report Twitter and the Micro-Messaging Revolution, pointed me to this blog post with a lot of interesting suggestions about how to use Twitter as a teaching tool. It’s good reading, and the Academic Hack blog (which I hadn’t heard of) looks like a good new addition to my RSS reader.

  • The Pirate Hoax

    A friend asked me what I think about the story in the Chronicle about the professor who encouraged his students to create a hoax story about a pirate in order to teach them about students about vetting the quality of their sources as part of a history class. They created a blog about the fake history and added a Wikipedia page about the fictional pirate. Then they “Facebooked, Twittered, and Shoutwired it.” The professor pulled the plug when he found out that some of his historian colleagues were buying into the hoax.

    So what do I think of it? I think it stinks.

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  • Me, Me, Me!

    I’m experimenting with writing a non-work blog, which I’m calling e-Mediate. In addition to the reasons that I list there for starting it, I consider it to be another experiment in trying to get the Web 2.0 thing from the inside of it. (I don’t buy the whole Digital Native thing; even geezers like me should be able to learn this stuff.) 

    I’m not sure whether I’m going to find it valuable enough to keep up, so for now, I’m leaving the commenting off. If you have something urgent to say to me about it, feel free to email me, write me on Facebook or <sigh> tweet me. It’s not like I’m hard to reach.

  • The Quest for Openness

    I have signed up for David Wiley’s Introduction to Openness class. It’s free for online participants (although you don’t get college accreditation for it). In an intriguing move, he’s modeled the course somewhat after RPGs, where course “credit” (whatever that means in this model) depends on class- and guild-dependent quests. I will probably play a Merchant, although I’m tempted to be a Bard.

  • Sakai 3 Vision Document

    Via Michael Korcuska’s blog, there is a new vision document describing the proposed path for the next major version of Sakai. If you find this interesting, then you may also want to look at the documents outlining the current thinking for Sakai 3.0 RC1 in (a little) more detail.

  • Open Forum Brain Dump

    I’m sitting in my hotel room near LAX early in the morning and I have a little time between the legs of my trip to reflect on the amazing experience I just had at The OPEN Forum. I must say, Thanos Partners did a superb job of organizing a fun, fascinating, and frictionless conference. (And the food. OMG.) I expect to write a number of posts reflecting on different facets that were covered during the forum, but this first one will mainly be a brain dump to capture a bunch of raw observations before they have a chance to fly out of my head.

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  • At the OPEN Forum Next Week

    I’ll be attending Thanos Partners’ OPEN Forum for Higher Education Executives next week. If anybody wants to catch up with me there, you can ping me or just find me at the session.