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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) ° Also tagged:

Acknowledge your perspective

One of the down sides of social media is that we have control over the connections we make. We tend to select sources that fit our own biases and while we assume the inputs we process are making us more knowledgeable, we may simply be becoming more entrenched in flawed positions. I have summarized the [...]

Posted 25 January 2010 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Personal data mining and possibilities for discovery

Late last evening after exploring lala, I tweeted the following: Wow – you can now scrobble from lala to last.fm – update for the digital natives. Check under beta. It was kind of a challenge from one 60-year-old to the digital natives of the world. For those needing a translation (digital natives included) – LaLa [...]

Posted 21 August 2009 † grabe § New Software/Hardware ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Knol

Welcome to Knol A knol is an authoritative article about a specific topic. Google has entered the competition for your information needs. Of course, Google has always been serving your information needs via search, but now it wants to organize and serve information more in the format of Wikipedia. Acording to Wikipedia: Knol is a [...]

Posted 25 July 2008 † grabe § New Software/Hardware ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Wordle

This from my wife: Wordle.net is a service that turns your tag cloud into an image. The following is the image generated from Cindy’s del.icio.us tags. I saw this a few days ago, but I could not figure out how to use the tags from my social bookmarking system in a way that would generate [...]

Posted 19 June 2008 † grabe § New Software/Hardware ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged:

Twitter

I guess I must admit being wrong. My initial reaction to Twitter was based on a present frame of reference without anticipating that an existing frame of reference can be changed by new experiences. I have discovered I like to keep Twitter open in a side bar while I do other things (see image). This [...]

Posted 19 June 2008 † grabe § New Software/Hardware ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Twitter

I have been experimenting with Twitter for a week or so. I am still not certain what I think. Letting folks know what I am doing on a regular basis does not come naturally. BTW – I am in MSP, babysitting, and watching the Twins game. Twins are down to NYY. I have also decided [...]

Posted 31 May 2008 † grabe § New Software/Hardware ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,