I am here to talk about the Learner’s Body in the face-to-face classroom. Now, we have a lot of smart people developing creative online and hybrid pedagogies in ways that surpass anything we can accomplish in the classroom. But that’s only if we don’t change the classroom in this post-digital or new digital era. What…
Category: Technology
Invention Mobs: The Event
On Wednesday, October 5, 2011, my students gathered in the Neely Room at Georgia Tech to showcase their experimental and interactive creative projects. Students developed and crowdsourced a variety of games, music videos, websites, fictional narratives, and much more, for the Georgia Tech community. To learn more about the project, see my explanatory essay at:…
Invention Mobs: The Concept
My fall 2011 class was inspired in large part by Daniel Pink’s book A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future. What I love about Daniel Pink’s book is that half of the book is also a handbook. He offers activities as suggestions for developing specific types of creativity. Thus far, the students…
TechShares Symposium
On December 8th, my students will showcase their capstone projects on collaborative consumption, a rising movement in consumer culture that promotes community, sustainability, and economy, defined by Rachel Botsman in What’s Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption. I asked students to bring collaborative consumption to Georgia Tech’s campus. The college campus is fertile…
How to Annotate Digital Texts
(Cross-posted on TECHStyle.) In a recent discussion on “The Real Cost of College Textbooks” in the New York Times, Anya Kamenetz, author of the controversial book DYI U, proposes: “Get Rid of Print and Go Digital.” Kamenetz suggests that professors abandon print textbooks in favor of eBooks and online resources. She asks: Why should we…
Cartoon Doll Emporium
According to this New York Times article, social interactive web sites ala MySpace are cropping up that are targeted at young girls with their simple communication tools. More specifically, most have in common the real-life obsession girls have with “dress-up.” Sites like Cartoon Doll Emporium feature a selection of dolls kids can personalize. “Belle of…
Virtual Living, Redux
As I was taking a walk around the block in (what has been for days) the smoky and stifling air of North Central Florida, I realized two important things about my previous post. (1) In my catalogue of “vital stats” one might wish to know about another person passing in the streets, I thought only…
Virtual Living
I previously wrote on the idea of my life as a character, i.e. what if I had an author hovering above me, narrating my every thought, sensation, memory, or basically any quality not visibly or audibly expressed. I think of the novel as a technology for reconfiguring the presentation of the individual, and as such,…