Susanna Hertrich gave a guest lecture at our department today (Ellen took notes), and I got to have a coffee with her first and get to know her a little – she teaches interactive and time-based media at the Kunsth¯gskolen and it’s […]
Ha: The Dullest Blog in the World: “I looked at the internet for a while. There seem to be a lot of pages one can look at these days. I carried on looking at the internet for a while longer, but there […]
Why, I wonder, is the English translation for Kvalitetsreformen not the Quality Reform but the Competence Reform? Mind you all the options sound kind of weird, don’t they?
Of course! Adrian is having students assess one of their own blog posts against the assessment matrix he’s provided. That makes sense! Next time I teach the web design and web aesethetics course (the blogging one) I’m definitely going to set up […]
I hope the plan to store the DNA of people who might be terrorists is an April fool’s joke. As, fortunately, was Deena’s email: The US government has declared a new security procedure and has directed US citizens to send all academic […]
Ah. A beginner’s guide to TrackBack, by Mena and Ben Trott, the creators of Moveable. Just what we needed.
Christopher Allbritton, the freelance independent journalist wanting to cover the Iraq war by weblog, is currently close to the border of Northern Iraq, trying to enter. His weblog, Back to Iraq is fascinating reading right now, it’s a lively, detailed and well-written […]
Note to self: TouchÈ by Mouchette is all about the user having to caress the screen with her mouse to penetrate it for its secrets. Useful for that chapter about touch in digital texts.
At the McLuhan Program in Toronto they aim to “essentially (..) teach people to think like Marshall McLuhan did… you know… come up with cute aphorisms, predict the future, that sort of stuff…” I wonder if that’s the official learning outcome? That […]