The main thing I got from this piece was that the school system is most likely not going to change; or at least not for a very long time. Like Illich said, “… everywhere the school system has the same structure, and everywhere its hidden curriculum has the same effect.” That effect is to keep [...]
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The Illusion
November 1st, 2009 · Comments Off
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McLuhan Mysteries
October 28th, 2009 · Comments Off
Well first I must say, McLuhan’s writings are pretty intense psychologically, even for the most learned of scholars so I understand, so what hope have I of understanding even a fraction of it? Let’s find out shall we?
One of the most provoc…
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The Time of my Second Life…
October 26th, 2009 · Comments Off
…was not as exciting as I wanted it to be (probably because not everything went as I expected it to) but that’s okay because from what I did experience, I was rather pleased. Of course, if my headset had worked things may have (and probably would have) been a lot more engaging, but I was [...]
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Second Life- woah.
October 25th, 2009 · Comments Off
In the beginning, using Second Life was seriously frustrating. I had no idea where to go, no idea what to do, and no motivation to try to understand any of it. But, as I spent more time with it and after we used it in class on Thursday, my mindset was totally changed. I found [...]
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Project Work Day!
October 25th, 2009 · Comments Off
So, last Tuesday when we had our project work day for this class, I remembered my conference with Dr. C and decided my final project should deal with something concerning movies. He had mentioned Windows Movie Maker, and after looking into it a bit further I decided this is the direction I want to go [...]
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Lost, but not Forever
October 19th, 2009 · Comments Off
So I have been off the blogging radar for quite a while which is odd even to me because I enjoy it quite a bit, but I think I have encountered somewhat of a mental block for blogging. I don’t know why that has happened and am trying to break free of it, and what [...]
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Linked
October 15th, 2009 · Comments Off
Frist of all, I have to start off by saying that I really enjoyed this essay. Like the Time Frames piece, it was different than just the standard essays about computers and new media most of our reading assignments have been about. This essay incorporated theatre and computer games and how they are related and [...]
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Presentation Material
October 15th, 2009 · Comments Off
PDF for Today’s Presentation
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I think Ben Franklin thought of everything…(almost)
October 13th, 2009 · Comments Off
So, I already wrote one post on the Ben Franklin’s biography that I am reading for Business 1301 and a connection I found in one of our readings from the New Media Reader. Well, I found another one…. Maybe it’s because in his own way Benjamin Franklin formed many different forms of media and invented new [...]
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Ben Franklin and Autodidacticism
October 6th, 2009 · Comments Off
For my business class we are reading the biography of Benjamin Franklin and I found a chapter of the book that praises Franklin for his self improvement techniques and his self-education in many different areas.
“For him [Franklin], all education was self-education. Though he enjoyed a few years of formal schooling, he taught himself most of [...]
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