Technology

Perception, The Matrix, and Augmented Realities

September 8, 2011

“The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you’re inside and look around. . . What do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. . . The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do. . . These people are still part of that system. [...]

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Literacy 2.0

September 29, 2009

This article titled “Clive Thompson on the New Literacy” from Wired Magazine is very interesting.  While some people argue that “Facebook encourages narcissistic blabbering, video and PowerPoint have replaced carefully crafted essays, and texting has dehydrated language into ‘bleak, bald, sad shorthand’,” still others–like Andrea Lunsford of Stanford University–are arguing that something good is actually [...]

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Multimedia Presentations and the Curse of “Slideuments”

September 6, 2009

I wanted to provide some resources and examples of effective presentation techniques, with the hopes that students (and possibly teachers) will continue to experiment with creative ways of presenting their ideas electronically.  By far the most useful site that you should visit is Garr Reynold’s blog Presentation Zen. His site develops his own ideas, compiles [...]

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