Category Archives: Information Technology and Information Literacy

The Right Way to Workshop

One of the things about the Digital Storytelling workshop that I really appreciated was its pedagogical effectiveness. I feel as if I’ll retain some competence with the tools we worked with (primarily Final Cut Express). I know I’m dropping into … Continue reading

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The Visual Bottleneck

So I finished a short movie on the third day of the Digital Storytelling workshop. I’ve got a number of reactions to the experience, which has been really interesting and useful in a variety of ways. For one, I’m struggling … Continue reading

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Hearing the Self

I’m on my second day of a Digital Storytelling Workshop facilitated by the Center for Digital Storytelling. I’ll have some more things to say about it later on, but one small thing I found interesting was that many participants yesterday … Continue reading

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Who Cares About the Floppy Hat?

Listen to this segment of the NPR program “Here and Now” featuring two political reporters, Robert Draper and Peter Nicholas. Draper is fairly interesting, rather like his NY Times Magazine article on the McCain campaign. (I really wish NPR would … Continue reading

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Information about Information Technology

I got tagged to fill out a meme about five “guilty pleasures” on my iPod. My iPod is a pretty chaotic little beast and I don’t really use playlists much, so to some extent each time I listen to it, … Continue reading

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Software Bleg

So. I’m thinking of seriously rebooting my rather shambolic note-taking, research and organizing practices, and I want to think consciously for a bit about what kinds of software or IT solutions out there fit my habits as well as some … Continue reading

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Why Some Learning Games Continue to Suck (Games + Learning + Society Liveblogging)

This isn’t a reaction to the panels I’ve attended at the meeting: they had some educational or learning games that I thought were terrific, smart, well-designed, and educationally effective. It’s more a reaction to some of the games I saw … Continue reading

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Games + Learning + Society Liveblogging 4

I’m at a roundtable panel on World of Warcraft with seven presenters (Bielema, Bielema, Chen, Hay, Kelly, Malone, Steinkuehler.) P. Bielema argues that you could map “real things” onto the Warcraft template to make it educational. E. Bielema is looking … Continue reading

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Games + Learning + Society Liveblogging 3

I’m at a panel on the use of games to help students in science education. I came in part way through Melissa Gresalfi and Anna Arici’s presentation on two games-based approaches in 6th grade science education based around something called … Continue reading

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Games + Learning + Society Liveblogging 2

I’m at the second morning panel, this one focused our design, with three presentations from designers and developers. One of the issues that often comes up at games-related conferences and meetings is the supposed divide between academic researchers and developers … Continue reading

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