Procrastadabbler

I worked hard to keep an open mind at yesterday’s professional development program, and although there were elements of the keynote speaker’s address that I had some issues with, I did learn about a couple of promising participatory applications.
First, what I learned

Diigo: way cool social bookmarking site. You can post webpages, including webbased articles and [...]

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I have to admit to some dissatisfaction with the world of literacy research. The past few years have been filled with researchers in search of an original idea. We’re trying to figure out this multiple modality stuff, this new literacies stuff, and everyone seems to be bouncing around looking for the sexiest theory on which [...]

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I learned about this over on Henry Jenkin’s blog. Three MIT students are documenting their travels across the US this summer via digital technologies such as a blog, twitter, flickr, etc. The site is This American Summer.
What these younguns are doing reminds me that they’re not the “Dumbest Generation.” They’re actually quite smart and curious [...]

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I’m working on an article about blogging and the break down of public and private space. It was precipitated by a posting I made a while ago in which I mentioned the work of Ben Agger who writes about the breakdown of the public and private in a fast capitalist economy. I haven’t gotten a [...]

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I just heard about the Frontline program Growing Up Online. Definitely worth a read/watch. It appears to be balanced, realistic, and not alarmist.

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