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Austin American-Statesman: Burnt Orange Productions stops making films
I'm disappointed but not surprised to see this project fold. Although I had some concerns about the ethics of building a business based on student labor, it was great to see students get big-budget experience.
utexas  austin  film  education 
july 2008 by McChris
Examiner.com: This is Sparta! — Facebook prank or political statement?
A Facebook group encouraged members to write "This is Sparta" on their AP Literature exam essays.
education  facebook  silly 
june 2008 by McChris
Experimental Gameplay Project
This initiative aims to be something like the Dogme 95 of gaming. Developers are asked to develop relatively simple computer games about a common theme - over the course of one week. This could lead to some interesting new instructional approaches.
gaming  education  design 
march 2008 by McChris
College Degree.com: Top 25 Strangest College Courses
It's no shock that many of these classes deal with cultural studies, defined broadly. I've taken a grad seminar titled "Whiteness," which didn't seem strange in its context.
education  whiteness  academic  linkbait 
february 2008 by McChris
Wired Campus: A Professor's Tips for Using Twitter in the Classroom
"Mr. Parry’s first instinct was that Twittering would just encourage students to speak in sound bites and self-obsess. But then he gave it a try, and he now sees Twitter as a useful classroom-communication tool. "
Twitter  education  Web2.0  socialsoftware 
january 2008 by McChris
NYTimes: McDonald’s Ending Promotion on Jackets of Children’s Report Cards
It's worth pointing out that a franchisee was responsible for this promotion, but it's good news nonetheless.
education  food 
january 2008 by McChris
Sesame Workshop Video
Children's Television Workshop now has a site with streaming Flash video of some classic "Sesame Street" clips.
archive  TVontheWeb  TV  education  puppets 
january 2008 by McChris
Radical Math
This site lists resources for integrating social justice issues into the mathematics curriculum.
activism  education  math 
january 2008 by McChris
Time: Googling for Your Grade
A class at Parsons school of design grades students on their ability to become Internet celebrities. Although it's couched as a kind of conceptual art, I wonder if it's just more practical self-promotion.
celebrity  education  yasns  art 
december 2007 by McChris
Informed Comment: Defending Miss Teen USA South Carolina
Juan Cole suggests that seemingly ditzy teen may have been onto something, arguing that geographic literacy is linked to economic well-being.
education  Iraq 
december 2007 by McChris
YouTube: Miss Teen USA 2007 South Carolina answers a question
Here's the classic video where a nervous teen flu
video  education  meme  gender  Iraq 
december 2007 by McChris
Julie's Health Club: McDonald's ads hit new low
Seminole County Florida report cards now feature McDonald's ads after the fast-food giant agreed to pay the cost of printing the documents.
advertising  education  whoa  food 
december 2007 by McChris
NYTimes: Decline of the Tenure Track Raises Concerns
Reading these articles about PhDs who work multiple temp jobs diminishes my interest in the academic life.
education  scary  labor 
november 2007 by McChris
O'Reilly Radar: Facebook in the Mail
According to server logs, six percent of UC Berkeley email comes from Facebook. It's wild to see Facebook blow up the way it has in the past few months.
visualization  email  education  Web2.0  yasns 
june 2007 by McChris
Black and White: 1958
"African American high school girl being educated via television during the period that the Little Rock (Arkansas) schools were closed to avoid integration."
image  history  education  TV  race 
may 2007 by McChris
Social Network Sites: Public, Private, or What?
danah boyd offers some advice for educators negotiating the social impacts of Social Networking Systems.
education  privacy  myspace  yasns 
may 2007 by McChris
Study: Students Don't Understand Copyright Rules
Well, I think any study would show that "Students Don't Understand X."
education  copyright  intellectualproperty 
april 2007 by McChris
Infoshop: Student expelled for Pastafarianism
I think this is pretty stupid, but K12 educators have to have a hard time with stuff like Pastafarianism, treading a thin line between freedom of expression and maintaining decorum. Unless, of course, they're bigots.
religion  education  1stamendment 
april 2007 by McChris
7 Words You Can't Say in Kindergarten
An amusing video that has children re-enact part of George Carlin's "Seven Dirty Words."
video  humor  protest  education  censorship 
march 2007 by McChris
Foreign Policy: Wiring the World’s Poor
FP interviews Intel chair Craig Barrett, who reveals insights about the digital divide and OLPC.
interview  Africa  education  digitaldivide 
march 2007 by McChris
Chaka Fattah's Technology Plan
Chaka Fattah used to be my representative in West Philly and is now running for mayor of the city. I take issue with some of his suggestions like SmartBoards, but infobong.com endorses him for mayor.
education  technology  politics  Philadelphia 
march 2007 by McChris
When Lego Goes to War
A teacher discusses ways he feels Lego has gone astray. I agree, I wrote a column freshman year of college when gendered Legos were introduced, and I think the licensed tie-ins are appalling.
education  toys  Lego 
february 2007 by McChris
The use of Wikipedia in higher education
Jason Mittell proposes a guideline for using WIkipedia for class projects.
wikipedia  education  media_studies 
february 2007 by McChris
Who Wants to be a Ph.D.?
This article seems kind of silly if you're in a Ph.D. program, but it's good at explaining the economic and emotional costs of pursuing a life of learning.
education  economics 
february 2007 by McChris
500 Reasons I'm Glad I Don't Work in Arizona
Jason MIttell describes the implications of bill that would punish professors from expressing an opinion in the classroom.
education  power  politics  stupid 
february 2007 by McChris
Network World: Blackboard pledges no action against open source courseware
education  opensource  patents  courseware 
february 2007 by McChris
ETS: ICT Literacy Demo
Sample questions from the proposed information literacy exam for prospective undergrads are available here. I find the questions rather strange.
education  testing  thereal 
february 2007 by McChris
Free software group challenges educational software patent
The US Patent and Trademark Office will review the patent granted for the Blackboard course management system.
patents  opensource  education 
january 2007 by McChris
Chronicle of Higher Education: An Educational Prank
McKembrew McLeod satirized the corporate university by claiming McDonald's sponsored his class at the University of Iowa.
prank  education  satire  activism 
january 2007 by McChris
DMCA exemptions issued
Among them include the ability for media studies instructors to lawfully circumvent DRM for compiling clip tapes.
DRM  education  film  copyright  DVD 
november 2006 by McChris
Wikipedia CD Distributed over BitTorrent
An educational group has created a "gold" version of Wikipedia for burning to CD and use at educational institutions.
wikipedia  education  bittorrent 
november 2006 by McChris
The Chronicle: Can Wikipedia Ever Make the Grade?
Chonicle of Higher Education on Wikipedia's production methods and its use in the academy. Largely a rehash of Roy Rosenweig's "Can History be Open Source."
wikipedia  education  Web2.0  academic  production 
october 2006 by McChris
Houston Chronicle: Friends say death illustrates role of independent media
A New York Indymedia reporter covering the teachers' strike in Oaxaca was killed by right-wing paramilitaries last week.
Oaxaca  Mexico  indymedia  journalism  labor  education 
october 2006 by McChris
Gallaudet Students defy their leaders, defend blockades; solidarity spreads (photos)
Students a Gallaudet, the nation's only university for deaf students, are protesting because the new president isn't rooted enough in deaf culture. Check out the photos of students "chanting" in sign language.
protest  education  disability  language 
october 2006 by McChris
Break.com: Smells Like Teen Spirit
A high-school orchestra performs the Nirvana hit in this amateur video. No fair: the coolest thing we ever got to play in high school was "Caravan."
music  video  education 
october 2006 by McChris
The UT System Crash Course in Copyright
The design of this site is straight-up 1996 (I think it's generated from PowerPoint slides) but this could be a useful resource for teaching or getting other grad students on the same page.
copyright  utexas  education  law  intellectualproperty 
september 2006 by McChris
ENT News: Blackboard Scores Key E-Learning Technlogy Patent
What does this mean for Moodle or Blackboard's commercial competitors?
patents  intellectualproperty  education 
august 2006 by McChris
Macrovision Trying To Plug the Analog Hole with a Suit
Mediageek discusses Macrovision's lawsuit against Sima Products, which sells signal-correction "bricks" that allow, among other things, media studies instructors to make nice looking clip tapes.
copyright  video  law  education 
august 2006 by McChris
TechDirt: What's Next, Ad-Supported Text Books? Oh wait
A company called FreeLoad Press plans to offer college students discounted textbooks with ads. I hope that projects like CreativeCommons and eRes offer an alternative way to reduce students' financial burdens.
education  advertising  publishing 
august 2006 by McChris
LogoWiki
The site was down when I tried to check it out, but supposedly this is a wiki that allows you to execute Logo code on its pages.
education  wiki  neato 
june 2006 by McChris
The Institute for the Future of the Book
project to reform the peer review process.
academic  media  newmedia  education 
march 2006 by McChris
To: Professor@University.edu Subject: Why It's All About Me
NYTimes story on students use of poor email etiquette with professors. As a student, it seems like the norms of the academy aren't keeping up with technological use.
education  email 
february 2006 by McChris

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