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Monthly Archives February 2010

Cloud Storage – Episode One

We all should consider off-site storage. I suppose that backup would probably be the first justification, but I am going to ignore this priority in my comments. Instead, I am going to focus on convenience. I mean convenience as in I have multiple computers and devices scattered all over the place and I often want [...]

Posted 25 February 2010 † grabe § New Software/Hardware ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: ,

A simple question about the sacred cows

Disclaimer: I do serve as a Psychology department chairperson. However, just to put my comments in perspective, I did start my academic life with a biology degree. In the following post I ask lots of questions. If the answers were obvious I would be watching the olympics rather than writing. I seldom comment on general [...]

Posted 20 February 2010 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °

100000

I reached a milestone this evening. My LastFm account reached 100,000 songs. LastFm is a social music site that keeps track of the music you play from your computer and your mobile devices. I started using this system in November, 2006, and tonight the number of songs this system has monitored hit 100,000. The 100,000th [...]

Posted 17 February 2010 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °

Upgraded, but is it improved

I have my own social bookmarking site I have built from an early version of Scuttle. I liked Scuttle, but wanted a system that would prioritize links based on a system of use and rated value. More popular and valued links would appear at the top. As a bookmarking system grows and becomes complicated you [...]

Posted 16 February 2010 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Collaborative, but not at the same time

I sometimes use a wiki in my graduate class. I call what I ask the students to do “public scholarship” – instead of developing content that only I will read, I require them to create products that will be available to other educators. This semester I encountered a problem I think I understand but that [...]

Posted 12 February 2010 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Inputs and Outputs

We are pretty much stranded today because of heavy snow. The Super Bowl will occupy my time later this afternoon, but I took the time this morning to read the most recent Kaiser Foundation Generation M study. The national survey study has been conducted every 5 years to track media use among 8-18 year olds. [...]

Posted 07 February 2010 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (1) °

Student generated multimedia – what about a justification?

My academic upbringing left a residual of guilt. I think that was the idea. I don’t feel quite right when I advocate for something without being able to offer references and the references are much more heavily weighted if they contain a methods and results section. Else, how does one avoid the tendency of falling [...]

Posted 04 February 2010 † grabe § Research ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,