January 29, 2008 – Silence and Voice

Jeffrey’s Twitter Updates for 2008-01-29

During the first intermission in Wagner’s Die Walküre tonight, somebody mentioned the relationship between Siegmund and Sieglinde was sick. #
I commented, for the first time, "Oh, how American!" #
Feeling a bit under the weather and sleepy. Need some vitamin C. #
@kanter Get some rest for us, as well! #
Going for a working lunch to discuss a book idea. #
Made some good progress over a meat lasagna special in a local Irish pub. Even came complete with carrots. #
Getting ready for two teleconferences. #
Soda machine dollar feeder is jammed. No caffeine for me. #
Will just have to eat strawberry licorice instead to help with afternoon stress. #
@macboyx At least you have another one . . . #
@fncll What is your new icon? #
@macboyx Twizzlers. Strange, they are no longer called licorice on the packaging. They are called Strawberry Artificially Flavored Twists. #
@macboyx Great minds think alike. #
@Currie Yes, I am on the call. Thank you for your help. #
@Currie I think a missed a roll-call, however, so have my phone muted. #
@macboyx That is exactly how I justify eating them as well! #
@brlamb I think I missed your context . . . #
Just attended a CPSquare conference call in the Long Live the Platform conference http://www.cpsquare.org/News/ #
This was my first formal CPSquare event. Nice group of dedicated people, and I think I will learn a lot from them. Glad I joined. #

The New York Times Liveblogs?!

Nice to know that my interest in liveblogging and my newspaper of record, The New York Times, has finally embraced technology enough to begin liveblogging. Not just in name, but in practice. It seems they are liveblogging today’s Florida Primary.

With real-time video, one may ask why anybody would be interested in liveblogging at all? If that is the case, you may be interested in my upcoming session at Northern Voice’s Internet Bootcamp, where I will be presenting a session entitled Liveblogging 101.

Liveblogging: Unfiltered. Raw. Authentic.

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Twitter in the Classroom

It is nice to see some college classes making use of current technologies that are all the rage in the private sector and amongst early-adopters. It is another thing for a professor to formally integrate this by having students sign up for their own accounts.

Such is the story in the recent article in The Chronicle of Higher Education, where a professor uses Twitter to interact with his students. Thankfully I saw this article in my newsreader on the Twitter blog. While I applaud the effort, it will be wonderful when non-technology or media faculty begin integrating these technologies into their syllabi for their educational value alone, even beyond the technical “wow” factors. This is a wonderful start, and reminds me of when I taught high school years ago and began using email with students to review for exams and work on assignments back in 1997. How times have changed.

I wish I would have tried this with my class that just ended. It would have been great to discuss current news stories, share ideas about upcoming assignments, and even debrief what was learned. This debriefing is where I believe much learning is done, yet it is the connection between what happens in the classroom and how that gets realized in life that formally gets overlooked in the race to “do the assignments.”

I would be happy to speak with any of my former students via Twitter.

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