Seton Hill Admin Main Stairway (Blender 3D Model)

[portfolio_slideshow] Last night I used Blender 3D to rough up a model of this stairway, the site of hundreds of group photos over the years. Similar:Another 10 sq cm of #steampunk control panel. #blender3d #blender3dart #design #aestheti…AestheticsThe Myth of the MegalithI have found that archaeologists are sel…CultureRossum's Universal Robots (Act 1) Artistic ProsperityThe first act…

When Teachers Demand to Be Co-Creators, Not Consumers – EdTech Researcher – Education Week

I’d like my students to be co-creators, too. The richest exchanges on day two of the Hewlett Open Educational Resources Grantee Meeting came from those who challenged the fundamental premises of the meeting. In designing the meeting, Berkman staff imagined three groups: Learners, Facilitators (teachers, librarians, coaches, educators, etc.), and Builders. They assumed a kind…

Context for Hayles, My Mother was a Computer (Ch 3 & 4)

My undergraduates are working their way through N. Katherine Hayle’s My Mother Was a Computer. They told me that they benefitted from the notes I wrote the other day, so I’m continuing the effort.   In Chapter 3, Hayles reminds us that the “worldviews of speech, writing, and code” are not merely theories, they are…

Woodward and Bernstein: Could the Web generation uncover a Watergate-type scandal? – The Washington Post

Yale journalism students say they could have easily broken the Watergate scandal themselves, simply by Googling for keywords. “This is Yale,” Bernstein said gravely. “That somehow the Internet was a magic lantern that lit up all events,” Woodward said. “And they went on to say the political environment would be so different that Nixon wouldn’t…

Creepy Treehouse

The canonical definition of “creepy treehouse” was written by Jared Stein in 2008. Here’s an excerpt: n. A place, physical or virtual (e.g. online), built by adults with the intention of luring in kids. Example: “Kids … can see a [creepy treehouse] a mile away and generally do a good job in avoiding them.” John…

This is why 12-year-olds aren’t excited about Facebook’s acquisition of Instagram | ZAGGblog

This is why 12-year-olds aren’t excited about Facebook’s acquisition of Instagram | ZAGGblog Similar:Found: Brass Candle SnifterThis was by the teacher’s station in Adm…AestheticsRolling Stone and UVA: The Columbia School of Journalism ReportSloppy journalism can ruin lives. Check …AcademiaThe problem I just learned about calls for tea in the big mug.CultureFinished Reading "Deathly Hallows" for…

Context for Halyes, My Mother Was a Computer

Hayles is an established authority on a humanities-centered approach to human-computer interactions, and My Mother Was a Computer (2005) is her third book on the topic. At times she writes with the expectation that her readers already know some foundational topics that she may have spent more time introducing in her previous books. In the…

9yo Carolyn Re-enacts the Imprisonment of Ariel (no, not the mermaid)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9xjoffTzLo Similar:The Big Boy GraveyardOn road trips in my youth, watching the …AmusingWhat Khan Academy's Fun, Free Learning Empire Has to Do with Dystopian Social Control Over the Christmas break, I’ve been ch…Academia11 Tips H.P. Lovecraft Had for Novice Writers”Avoid reading so as not to taint your c…CultureOne strategic twist-tie, and my bedside cable-tangles are a distant…

The Next Time Someone Says the Internet Killed Reading Books, Show Them This Chart

Looks like this blogger presented the chart as an implicit argument about the quality of literature being read today, rather than the quantity. We were a civilized civilization. This was before the Internet and cable television, and so people had these, like, wholly different desires and attention spans. They just craved, craved, craved the erudition…

York Crucifixion of Christ (Toronto, 1977) 2 of 4

Christ willingly stretches himself down on the cross. Surprised, one of the soldiers observes: “Behold, himself has laid him down,/and bent his back unto this tree.” From one of the first web pages I created, for an academic article about a computer simulation of the epic medieval Christian pageant the York Corpus Christi Cycle. The…

Chicago State University tries to limit speech

According to my 9yo daughter, “It’s completely and utterly stupidulous.” Pancho McFarland, an associate professor of sociology at Chicago State, fears the policy could restrict all types of communications by professors, including speaking engagements. “It will put a chilling effect on our ability to speak in a number of venues,” he said. “It is part…

There are giant feathered tyrannosaurs now… right?

Regular readers will perhaps know that I (and others) have been saying for a while that Mesozoic Earth was not the global hothouse that many have long assumed. There’s evidence for cool continental interiors and poles during parts of the Jurassic and Cretaceous (Barron & Washington 1982, , Sloan & Barron 1990, Sellwood et al.…

3 Major Publishers Sue Open-Education Textbook Start-Up – Wired Campus – The Chronicle of Higher Education

“Whether in the lecture hall or in a textbook, anyone is obviously free to teach the subjects biology, economics, or psychology, and can do so using, creating, and refining the pedagogical materials they think best, whether consisting of ‘open source educational content’ or otherwise,” it reads. “But by making unauthorized ‘shadow-versions’ of Plaintiffs’ copyrighted works,…

Building and Sharing When You’re Supposed to be Teaching Journal of Digital Humanities

In Stallybrass’s mind, students—and in fact, all scholars—need to do less thinking and more working. “When you’re thinking,” Stallybrass writes, “you’re usually staring at a blank sheet of paper or a blank screen, hoping that something will emerge from your head and magically fill that space. Even if something ‘comes to you,’ there’s no reason…

10 Things You Can Learn From the New York Times’ Data Visualizations | Visual.ly Blog

10 Things You Can Learn From the New York Times’ Data Visualizations | Visual.ly Blog Similar:Understanding 9/11: A Television News ArchiveStunning collection of thousands of hour…CultureMore #steampunk control panel goodness. #blender3d #blender3dart #aestheticsAestheticsNew York Times runs just 1000 names of the nearly 100,000 Americans who have already died …AcademiaGoogle Stops Scanning Student Gmail Accounts for…