moving my digital notestuff to Notes

 Posted on August 3, 2019  |  2 minutes  |  425 words

I've been using digital notebooks for many, many years. Everything was in Evernote, until it wasn't. Then I used Noteshelf for the great ink. Then I used OneNote for the organization and even better ink. All along, I've kept a series of paper notebooks, which I've found myself using more often in the last couple of years 1. And, our campus IT had been making somewhat-arbitrary changes to configuration involving OneDrive (and therefore OneNote) that made me uncomfortable continuing to keep The Sum of My Digital Notesâ„¢ in one basket that was configured by people with a track record of changing things without consultation 2. [Read More]
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Gehl, R.W. (2013). What's on your mind? Social media monopolies and noopower

 Posted on March 11, 2013  |  3 minutes  |  483 words

Gehl, R.W. (2013). What's on your mind? Social media monopolies and noopower. First Monday. 18(3). On noopower (("power over minds, power over thoughts")) through marketing and repetition extended into ubiquitous social media: Operating within the larger political economy of advertising–supported media, it is not surprising that Facebook, Google, and Twitter mirror marketing's penchant for experimentation and repetition. Software engineers working for these firms pore over data about what actions users most commonly take — that is, what is most often repeated within the architectures of the sites. [Read More]
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Bassett, C. (2013). Science, delirium, lies?

 Posted on March 11, 2013  |  2 minutes  |  222 words

The potential for thinking through new re–combinations, new ways to draw up code and language into a new media politics are suggestive. But I want finally to return to the question this article began with: more or less? This text has been framed by a belief that social media monopolies ought to be disrupted — and in the name of at least two of the things they are axiomatically understood to promote (social justice, solidarity as a form of community) and do not. [Read More]
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on note-taking on an iPad

 Posted on February 12, 2012  |  3 minutes  |  579 words

I've been doing most of my work on an iPad for a couple of months now, and have finally come up with a workflow that fits how I do things. I had initially been typing notes directly into Evernote, which is awesome and extremely useful, but the flow of notes felt entirely too linear. I tend to wander a bit, and come back to things later. Typing notes into a document felt too constraining. [Read More]
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Carpenter & McLuhan. (1956). The New Languages.

 Posted on August 4, 2010  |  1 minutes  |  147 words

Carpenter, E. & McLuhan, M. (1956) [The new languages](http://scholar.google.com.ezproxy.lib.ucalgary.ca/scholar?hl=en&lr=&q=info:sGI-I_PNL8oJ:scholar.google.com/&output=search). Chicago Review. 10(1) pp. 46-52. on the format of newspapers, and the effect on perception: The position and size of articles on the front page is determined by interest and importance, not content. Unrelated reports... are juxtaposed; time and space are destroyed and the *here* and *now* are presented as a single Gestalt. ... Such a format lends itself to simultaneity, not chronology or lineality. [Read More]
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Notes: Coulthard, M. (1974). Approaches to the Analysis of Classroom Interaction

 Posted on August 4, 2010  |  3 minutes  |  431 words

Coulthard, M. (1974). [Approaches to the analysis of classroom interaction](http://www.informaworld.com/index/746427261.pdf). Educational Review. 26(3). pp 229 — 240. On directing discourse: Participants with equal rights and status, as in everyday conversation, negotiate in very subtle and complex ways for the right to speak, to control the direction of the discourse and to introduce new topics. We therefore determined to reduce the number of variables by choosing a situation in which one of the participants has an acknowledged right to decide who will speak, when they will speak, what the topic of the discourse will be, and the general lines along which it will progress. [Read More]
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on note taking

 Posted on July 5, 2010  |  2 minutes  |  361 words

At [CeLC 2010](http://blogs.elearning.ualberta.ca/wpmu/celc2010/), there [was a session on various bits of technologies](http://blogs.elearning.ualberta.ca/wpmu/celc2010/program/presentationsandposters/cyborgian-dreams-of-ipods-eportfolios-and-smartboards/), and how McLuhan's 4 laws of media apply to them - what does the technology enhance, retrieve, obsolesce, and reverse? One of the presenters ended up talking about how the ability of profs to post their lectures online - whether through the .ppt files, podcasting, or some other format - made the act of note taking by students obsolete. [Read More]
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Notes on Hara et al. Content analysis of online discussion in an applied educational psychology course

 Posted on May 28, 2010  |  4 minutes  |  804 words

Hara, N., Bonk, C.J., & Angeli, C. (2000). Content analysis of online discussion in an applied educational psychology course. Instructional science. 28(2). pp. 115-152 The study looked at a graduate-level psychology course that used online discussion as a core graded activity. The researchers looked at: student participation rates electronic participation patterns (what form of interaction takes place when led by students? does it change over time?) social cues within the messages (" [Read More]
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Postman - Teaching as a Subversive Activity

 Posted on August 15, 2008  |  3 minutes  |  438 words

I'm working through Teaching as a Subversive Activity, by Neil Postman. I hadn't read it before, and am seriously kicking myself for that. Some quick notes and quotes from the first couple of chapters. Keep in mind that this book was written in 1968, published in 1969, and reads as though it was crafted in 2008. 3 problems that require schools to remake themselves into training centers for subversion: Communications Revolution or Media Change: [Read More]
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