Bruns: So close, and yet so far

Thursday, August 6th, 2009

This is the official reaction to our last reading in the Bruns book. The thing that drives me crazy about Bruns is he gets so close to getting it right….but then he just goes off the rails a bit.
Our last assigned chapter was titled “Educating Produsers, Produsing Education: Produsage and the Academy”.
Not everyone can be [...]

Its our turn to change the world

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

Official Prompt for Week 6:
Reflect on what you have learned in the class and how you will use it professionally as both a lifelong learner and an instructional systems professional (or whatever field you’re in).
I came to this class with quite a bit of experience with using and building Web 2.0 tools.  I was happy [...]

Joel, Stealing, and how the world has changed

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

I posted on our Blackboard discussion group about Joel Tenenbaum’s fight against the ridiuculous fine the RIAA has levied against him for downloading ten songs without paying for him years ago (he was 16). One of my classmates believes this is a black and white issue of theft. He even said that as educational professionals [...]

From Bruns to Colbert

Sunday, July 19th, 2009

I was going to write a post based on the parts of this week’s Bruns reading where he sort of talks about agile, but seems to get it all wrong.
Instead I want to talk about Wikipedia.
Palimpsest
A palimpsest is defined (by wikipedia) as being “a manuscript page from a scroll or book that has been scraped [...]