Online Tools for My Students
This is a list of the tools that my students and I have used or played with this semester. Many I rely on. Others I am experimenting with. Feedback and/or recommendations welcome. (^ ^)A GMail account. All sharing collaborating, communicating starts with GMail including GoogleDocs,

Teaching, Learning, and Dance: Thinking About Movement and Learning Environments
When I think about a classroom one of the first things I think about is movement.A classroom is a small hive buzzing with energy and diversity. And in this hive, when you pay attention closely, you can see a host of dances taking place. In a recent post, Ways to think about movement, Celine Llewellyn-Jones shares her thinking about the connection between dance and

Within Reach: Current Readings
Some old, something new; something borrowed, something blue. Here's what's on/open/brewing on my desk.LensesBruno Latour    Reassembling the Social: An introduction to Actor-Network-Theory    Oxford University Press    2005    A how-to trace associations through accounts of activity: defining social, sociality, how-to interlude, examine the facts

Social Media as Punk 2.0
I saw this video recently on Richard Darell's Bit Rebel's site. When done well, I enjoy video/animation explanations of social media and/or complex participatory enterprises. This video "Social media is the new punk rock" offers a new interpretation of how social media shifts the opportunity to listen and more importantly be heard to the masses. I feel it does so at the cost of working through some of the finer points, e.g., ethics, responsibility, intent, social action, citizenship, social justice, etc., that are equall

10 Levels of Intimacy in Today's Communication
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