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Television | Desert of My Real Life
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Desert of My Real Life. June 29, 2016} Information Archives. I’ve been spending Wednesday mornings in the library this summer working on my. Project in the company of other academics working on their own projects. One of the frustrating things about today’s session is that I’m trying to find a particular advertisement that NBC created for. Project (which is no different than the way most people do research). I sometimes find myself having followed paths of inquiry that have led me in very different d...
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Education | Desert of My Real Life
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Desert of My Real Life. July 2, 2016} Ten Months In. Last August, our new president, Don Birx. Spoke to eager Plymouth State University employees about his vision for the campus to be reorganized around strategic clusters and open labs. Even though we are still at the beginning of implementing this vision, I think there are some lessons to be learned now that we are ten months into this process. Cathie LeBlanc @ 7:03 pm [filed under Academia. July 6, 2014} Disruptive Innovation in Education. A company de...
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When is Failure Really Failure? | Desert of My Real Life
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Desert of My Real Life. August 9, 2013} When is Failure Really Failure? If you are involved in higher education in any way, you have heard about Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). Left his tenured faculty position at Stanford University and founded a start up company called Udacity. There has been a lot. About MOOCs in general. It’s interesting to me that many of these MOOCs seem to employ pedagogical techniques that are highly criticized in face-to-face classrooms. In this advertisement. Several peopl...
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Media | Desert of My Real Life
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Desert of My Real Life. June 19, 2014} HCF Redux. Halt and Catch Fire. Spoiler alert–there is one major plot twist that I’m going to discuss below that if you haven’t yet watched the first three episodes of this show, you might want to avoid. So where do I currently fall in regards to this show? Cathie LeBlanc @ 8:52 pm [filed under Media. Comments Off on HCF Redux. June 5, 2014} HCF. I just watched the pilot episode of AMC’s new show,. Halt and Catch Fire. 8216;s Sunday 10pm slot. I was pretty intri...
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Social Media Round Up | Desert of My Real Life
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Desert of My Real Life. September 22, 2013} Social Media Round Up. Now that the craziness of the start of the semester has begun to slow down, I thought I’d do a quick hit on a variety of social media topics that I’ve been thinking about in the last few weeks but have not yet found the time to write about. A few weeks ago,. There has to be enforcement of those rules as well. So I hope. Didn’t handle this issue particularly well, in my opinion, but they are taking some first steps to fix the issue. Althou...
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Software Controls Users | Desert of My Real Life
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Desert of My Real Life. June 19, 2013} Software Controls Users. Because I can’t help but view today’s software through the lens that Dave helped me to develop. A couple of incidents recently have me thinking about Dave again. I was talking to my mother the other day about the … With Friends games from Zynga. My university is currently implementing an amazingly useful piece of software, DegreeWorks. Cathie LeBlanc @ 8:57 pm [filed under Making Meaning. Comments Off on Software Controls Users.
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HCF | Desert of My Real Life
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Desert of My Real Life. June 5, 2014} HCF. I just watched the pilot episode of AMC’s new show,. Halt and Catch Fire. 8216;s Sunday 10pm slot. I was pretty intrigued by the slew of previews I saw while watching this spring’s half season of Mad Men (and by the way, since when does a season start in the spring of one year, take nearly a year hiatus, and then end in the spring of the following year? One of the annoying things about the show is the arrogant genius behaving badly trope. Lee Pace. Magazine is o...
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Disruptive Innovation in Education | Desert of My Real Life
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Desert of My Real Life. July 6, 2014} Disruptive Innovation in Education. I went to a conference. Sponsored by UBTech a few weeks ago. It was advertised as a “national summit on technology and leadership in higher education” and had a tag line of “Your future is being determined. Be there.” Not surprisingly, many of the sessions were focused on “ disruptive innovation. 8221; the idea that new technologies are disrupting the traditional university. A professor at Rice University and founder of OpenStax.
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Gamification and Education | Desert of My Real Life
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Desert of My Real Life. June 30, 2013} Gamification and Education. A trending buzzword in today’s digital culture is. According to most sources on the Internet, the term was coined in 2004 by Nick Pelling. A UK-based business consultant who promises to help manufacturers make their electronic devices more fun. Since then, the business world has jumped on the gamification bandwagon with fervor. Most definitions of the term look something like this. Written by the game scholar Ian Bogost. Costikyan says, &...
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#gamification #education | Desert of My Real Life
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Desert of My Real Life. June 30, 2013} Gamification and Education. A trending buzzword in today’s digital culture is. According to most sources on the Internet, the term was coined in 2004 by Nick Pelling. A UK-based business consultant who promises to help manufacturers make their electronic devices more fun. Since then, the business world has jumped on the gamification bandwagon with fervor. Most definitions of the term look something like this. Written by the game scholar Ian Bogost. Costikyan says, &...