Posted by dmirliss | Oct 29th, 2006

Portrayal of Women in the Media

While I have not had time to post this week I have been keeping up with some of the my favorite blogs.  Anya posted this Dove commerical – its message is so important that I am also posting it here.  There are many unrealistic portrayals of women and roles that women should hold in society in addition to the way they should look.  These all contribute to many of the issues that we see with young women such...

Posted by dmirliss | Oct 28th, 2006

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A video interview with Yrjo Engestrom – Online issue – updated 8-Nov-2005 (tags: ActivityTheory ExpansiveLearning...

Posted by dmirliss | Oct 27th, 2006

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Setting Prefs for the Mozilla Rich Text Editing Demo (tags:...

Posted by dmirliss | Oct 26th, 2006

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Sloodle – 3D Learning Management System (tags: sloodle SecondLife...

Posted by dmirliss | Oct 25th, 2006

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Participatory Media Literacy – Participatory Media Literacy (tags: ParticipatoryMediaLit...

Posted by dmirliss | Oct 23rd, 2006

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Learning On The Move: MLearning Is Next – Robin Good’s Latest News (tags: MLearning tlwt literaturereview) M-learning – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (tags: MLearning tlwt...

Posted by dmirliss | Oct 22nd, 2006

Taking a Break…

 Taking a bit of a break today to enjoy what is left of the fall weather.  Pups got all dirty and wet but ball playing was well worth the baths they got when we came home.   Tomorrow my students go into SL to complete their virtual team building experience.  I have to admit that I am a bit nervous – their are so many things that can go wrong and I wonder about there perspective regarding using a...

Posted by dmirliss | Oct 22nd, 2006

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At what cost pervasive? A social computing view of mobile computing systems (tags: SocialComputing Ubiquitous_Computing mobileComputing Laptops literaturereview) Individual Productivity at what expense (tags: Ubiquitous_Computing SocialComputing literaturereview) Psychological Predictors of Internet Social Communication (tags: Ubiquitous_Computing SocialComputing SocialNetworkTheory...

Posted by dmirliss | Oct 21st, 2006

Busy Week Wrap-up

Its been an extremely hectic week as the Slatenight team helped to wrap up NMC’s Symposium which was held in Second Life.  Heidi and I really pushing ourselves to get everything that we need to get done and what we would like to get done.  We were working on our presentation, Engaging the Disengaged, right up to the last minute, uploading GIFs into SL, fighting with the slide presenter and then finally using...

Posted by dmirliss | Oct 18th, 2006

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Zotero – The Next-Generation Research Tool (tags: freeware research...