December 2008
24 posts
Grip The Knowing | Curious Expeditions →
Dickens, Poe, and ravens.
BattleBricks: WiigoBot, The Perfect Game →
A Wii-playing Lego robot!
New Haven Advocate: Arts & Literature - Shit Storm →
My review of The Big Necessity
Sisterhood of the Lost Girls: Finding Their Way... →
videos about how to use the CCSU library
Murder map of London, 1888 →
“The year is best known for Jack the Ripper’s reign of terror in the East End, but while his crimes dominated the headlines, there were many more - pathetic, vicious, suicidal or accidental. Click on…
Presentation = Speech + Slides | In the Library... →
“When visually appealing slides complement the speech, the presenter can engage multiple senses of the audience members.”
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“New England’s full of grudges, and there’s lots of people that need...”
– Hannah Tinti, The Good Thief
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“At times Ren felt like he was reading fragments of his own dreams, reassembled...”
– Hannah Tinti, The Good Thief
Tiddly Backpack →
A wiki that lives on a USB stick.
Scifi Gift Guide: 10 Graphic Novels That Make... →
Good Explanations Are Not About You | Common Craft... →
“I think the key point is about the perspective of the explainer. As I wrote in a comment, it’s this awareness of the other person and their needs that helps so much with explanation - being able to…
MAKE: Blog: Steampunk Gift Guide - 2008... Gifts... →
“ere at the Steampunk Workshop some very cool things have been happening! Last month Jeff VanderMeer and I announced our collaboration on a project-oriented book about the Steampunk subculture and in…
Johnny Lee demos Wii Remote hacks | Video on... →
Building a whiteboard out of a Wiimote
http://landscape.blogspot.com/2008/11/5-minute-digi... →
This is an awesome idea for a quick assignment: Plotting on a map towns left out of the railway in the 19thC. Brilliant example of the ways new tools make it easier to conceptualize the past.
Wired Campus: Bringing Tenure Into the Digital Age... →
Short Q&A about reconceptualizing tenur requirements in an online environment
Rell Plans Talks With Unions About Deficit --... →
Poor Children's Brain Activity Resembles That Of... →
for all those working on education/poverty questions
Rant: Leave Comic Books Out Of Superhero Movies →
Superheroes: Why I hate them! | Hellboy II: The... →
The Design of Openness at bavatuesdays →
“De-centered, distributed publishing is a flow of information we are not used to, it’s anarchic, somewhat confusing, and difficult to follow unless you are in the “natural” flow of things. Yet, that…
The Son of Man, 1982 - What happens to your body... →
They say these things like they’re bad.
Franklin Consulting →
results from a summer 2008 study of web 2.0 tech in higher education (pdf / doc formats)
