Last night, I had the privilege of going to the opera for the first time. As the opening bars of Mozart’s famous opera, Don Giovanni, began, I resisted the urge to hum along, and found myself tearing up before the curtain was drawn. I have long wanted…
Category: All Things Digital
I made a screencast the other day on creating podcasts with GarageBand as part of my work as an Instructional Technology Fellow at the CUNY Macaulay Honors College. It occurred to me that as I learn new skills and create tutorials on various instructional technology…
As I get my feet wet with this public-blogging thing (intentionally public, anyway–this isn’t the first time I’ve blogged publicly, but it’s the first time I’ve done so while trying to capture the attention of a specific audience and string a common thread through my…
The word “memory” has many meanings these days–13 definitions to be exact, according to dictionary.com. When I was a child, it meant one of two things: 1) the special place in my brain where I collected mental versions of good (and bad) life moments, and 2)…
I have been thinking about whether or not I can reveal this in public, and I figure, well, okay. While I’ll never post about anything that’s not G-rated, I might occasionally embarrass myself. Humility is a good thing, right? So here goes. I finally got…
Yesterday’s post marked the start of me trying to work out, in writing, some of the questions I have about pedagogy and technology. I’ve been spending more time with my computer than any other object in my life for at least the last ten years, and…
How often do you still download a document, or go to the site of a periodical you used to get in the mail every week, and approach it as a concrete piece of the physical world? How has the switch from print to digital affected…
So yesterday marked the official start of my new fellowship, in which I’ll be working with students and faculty via technology. More on what that means as it unfolds… In the meantime, we got students set up with their new Macs, and part of that…
It’s my birthday tomorrow, and I woke up wanting to change my Facebook profile picture (which is a little ridiculous to admit, but we all do it from time to time, right?), which led me to think about how we manipulate our digital footprints as…