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Entries from February 21, 2010

Digital Nation

February 21, 2010 · No Comments · education

In case you haven’t seen it, PBS has an important new documentary on digital media and its implications for society called Digital Nation.  I wrote a review of the documentary on my blog, but the short version is that I found it flawed, but somewhat thought-provoking, especially given some of the issues we’ve been facing [...]

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Wake Teacher Suspended

February 17, 2010 · No Comments · social networking

Here is the Raleigh News-Observer article about Melissa Hossain, a Wake County teacher who was suspended because of inflammatory comments she posted on Facebook.

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Course Updates

February 10, 2010 · No Comments · course management

There are a couple of updates I’d like to point out. For whatever reason, the original version of the “Social Bookmarking in Plain English” video has been marked as private.  Here is an alternative version. You should also watch the “RSS in Plain English” video.  It’s a good overview of what RSS can do in [...]

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Social Media Addiction

February 5, 2010 · No Comments · humor, social networking

I thought you might find this video satire of social media addiction humorous: Found originally in this blog post on Twitter burn out.

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Course Wiki

February 3, 2010 · No Comments · course management, wiki, writing

I’ll add it to the sidebar later, but here is a link to the wiki I created for our course.  I’ve set it, temporarily, so that it can be viewed by anyone but only edited by people I’ve invited.

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