The session begins with greetings from Susan Metros and Holly Willis of USC, delivered with charming Mickey Ears on their heads (Susan wears Minnie ears, Holly wears sorcerer’s apprentice ears). We then watch video greetings from the head of the … Continue reading →
I’m way too tired to write anything coherent besides “wow” and “whoa!” and “thanks,” but I will thrown caution aside for a moment and forge ahead. In fact, I will live recklessly on the edge of sleep and refer to … Continue reading →
Today at 1 p.m. CDT, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (actually, the Carnegie Commons branch) sponsored a WebEvent featuring Toru Iiyoshi and Vijay Kumar, the editors of the new MIT Press book Opening Up Education: The Collective … Continue reading →
I confess that I’m not feeling it yet, this heightened buzz about republishing/remixing content. To some extent, this looks like the second coming of learning objects, which is fine so far as it goes, but it doesn’t go nearly far … Continue reading →
My meditation follows the reading from the Gospel. From the Lectionary for December 22, 2021: Luke 1:39-56 (New Revised Standard Version) Mary Visits Elizabeth 39 In those days Mary set out and went with haste to a Judean town in the … Continue reading →
AMST 391-04/ENGL 391-94/NEXT 383-01 The Rise of Social Media Fall 2021 ONLINE—synchronous Dr. Campbell Class meetings via Zoom: MW 2:00-3:15 p.m. … Continue reading →
Nearly two years ago I wrote about “The Odyssey Project,” in a post outlining a grant proposal submitted to the MacArthur Foundation in 1997. The proposal was not funded, but the idea lived on, and became what Jim Groom would … Continue reading →
I.—OF TRUTH. What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer. Certainly, there be that delight in giddiness; and count it a bondage to fix a belief; affecting freewill in thinking as well as in acting. … Continue reading →
Michel de Montaigne’s Essais begin with an address to the reader: Au Lecteur C’est icy un livre de bonne foy, lecteur. To the Reader This is a good faith book, reader. Many translators render “bonne foy” as “honest.” Florio’s 1603 … Continue reading →
I’ve been wanting to explore this topic for a few years now, and I need to start somewhere, but I don’t have the bandwidth just now to do more than juxtapose a few things. The overarching problem sometimes goes by … Continue reading →