http://kevincreamer.net/panda The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heav'n of hell, a hell of heav'n. Thu, 29 May 2008 10:38:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Twitter's had a number of problems lately. Seems it all started when they had the system down for upgrades a couple of weeks ago. Since then they're on par with Second Life for technical problems. The two blur together for me: is it Twitter that has the ... http://kevincreamer.net/panda/2008/05/29/twitter-problems-reconsidering-jaiku/ Lisa Lane has an article in the most recent issue of EDUCAUSE Quarterly, "Toolbox or Trap? Course Management Systems and Pedagogy."  For a brief article, she does a good job laying out the criticisms I hear most frequently about course management systems: their design is focused on integrating resources (as ... http://kevincreamer.net/panda/2008/05/18/toolbox-or-trap-course-management-systems-and-pedagogy/ Dr. Ayers speaks to the Richmond Merchants Association on May 2. An interesting overview of the University, but it's especially interesting to see how he's reaching out to make connections to the community. Thanks to Andy Morton for the link. http://kevincreamer.net/panda/2008/05/14/rma-first-friday-with-dr-edward-ayers/ The Center for Teaching, Learning, and Technology Organization Kevin Creamer, Director (kcreamer@richmond.edu, 804.289.8677) CTLT Liaisons (web site coming soon) Allison Czapracki (aczapracki@richmond.edu, 804.287.6657) Information Systems Jim Groom (jgroom@richmond.edu, 804.287.6872) Teacher Licensure Hill Scott (hscott@richmond.edu, 804.289.8452) Kenneth Warren (kwarren@richmond.edu, 804.287.6656) Liberal Arts Weekend College Tom Woodward (twoodwar@richmond.edu, 804.289.8258) Emergency Services Management Human Resource Management Paralegal Studies Terry Dolson - Faculty Development Specialist ... http://kevincreamer.net/panda/2008/03/10/scs-directors-presentation-outline/ On my way out to the ELI Annual meeting in San Antonio, I started reading Derek Bok's Our Underachieving Colleges.  It's fascinating reading, and I know the book is something our president has been discussing recently. I don't have enough time to respond to everything I'm reading, but Bok has a ... http://kevincreamer.net/panda/2008/01/28/a-very-nice-place-to-start/ Since 1991 I've been the list owner / moderator of Milton-L, a discussion list on the life, literature and times of the poet John Milton.  In 1994 I created The Milton-L Home Page as a support site for the discussion list. I'm now ready to take the web site to ... http://kevincreamer.net/panda/2007/10/04/content-systems-joomla-vs-drupal/ Last night we had our second and final reading of A Simple Piece of Cloth, a play by Jeffrey D. J. Kallenberg. Jeffrey arrived in Richmond Tuesday and provided feedback to the cast as we finished rehearsing the reading. It was the first time I've had the opportunity to ... http://kevincreamer.net/panda/2007/09/09/a-simple-piece-of-cloth/ I'm in Snowmass Village for the 2007 Seminars on Academic Computing.  It's my first time at SAC, and, after 33 years, the last time SAC will be held in Snowmass Village. I'm not the type that pays much attention to the venue of a conference.  I'm not usually interested in exploring ... http://kevincreamer.net/panda/2007/08/07/seminars-on-academic-computing-2007/ In Convergence Culture, Henry Jenkins spends a chapter describing how the creators of The Matrix engaged storytellers in many different media to tell complimentary parts of the entire Matrix story.  Playing the video games, reading the comic books and watching The Animatrix extended the story with some overlaps to the ... http://kevincreamer.net/panda/2007/07/08/transmedia-learning/ NetworkWorld has a cover story on the stress that social networking sites like MySpace put on DNS servers.  Pages on MySpace point to content all over the internet, causing browsers to perform dozens, sometimes hundreds of DNS lookups per page.  That combined with the popularity of social networking sites has ... http://kevincreamer.net/panda/2007/07/02/social-networking-and-network-stress/