Earlier today I was crowned “Grand Poobah of Social Media” at this year’s Teaching with Technology Idea Exchange (http://ttix.org). This honor came shortly after Chris Lott’s closing keynote in which I realized that I would probably be better off if I tweeted less and meditated more. But now I carry…
Press Release: Tweeting the Civil War on Twhistory.com
Here is a press release that went out to Wired, CNN, AP, and some other media outlets earlier today. I hope it gets picked up by one of them. It’s been a fun project so far, and this is just the beginning. Enjoy! Contact: TOM CASWELL Email: caswell [dot] tom…
OER Access and Accessibility Session Live and on Twitter!
I will be conducting a panel session on OER access and accessibility in about an hour. It will run from 11:15am to 12:45pm CDT (UTC/GMT -5 hours). If you are not present at the OCWC Conference in Monterrey, you can connect via Elluminate web conference here: https://globalcampus.uiowa.edu/. To join the…
God be with you ’till we tweet again
This weekend I attended LDS General Conference. But this time there was Twitter. It changed the whole experience for me, as I found myself interacting with hundreds of people, sharing favorite quotes and making comments. I used http://twitterfall to see all the other tweets tagged with #ldsconf. In all, 775…
MIT Media Lab’s Sixth Sense machine
From VSL Science: It sounds like something out of a Philip K. Dick novel: a tiny computer, worn around your neck, that lets you surf the Web from any location and project it onto any surface. But MIT Media Lab’s Sixth Sense machine allows you to do just that.