Buzzfeed: ”I Killed A Man”: What Happens When A Homicide Confession Goes Viral While I don’t have time to read this now, I’m putting it here for future reference. I think it may resonate interestingly with Foucault’s ideas about confession, discourse, and subjecting oneself to control and discipline. The internet allows all of us to freely express ourselves […]

View my digital story, based on my thesis study, “Identity, Authorship, Access: Undergraduates’ Definitions of Research in the Academy”: http://prezi.com/pvzqic0x1wec/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0shareFiled under: Uncategorized Tagged: digital story, thesis, undergraduate research

I’ve decided to change the digital story I will create this week. Instead of telling the story of going to the Conference on College Composition and Communication last year, I will tell the story of my thesis project–its evolution, development, process, and (pending) results.Filed under: Daily Create Tagged: CCCC, conference on college composition and communication, […]

Tips for Troubleshooting Your Computer, Courtesy of The Onion Even the most experienced user can run into error messages, software crashes, hardware malfunctions, and other issues with their computer. Here are some tips for keeping your machine running smoothly: Unexplained crashes are a common problem with electronic devices. If your computer freezes, it never hurts […]

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Edit a photo using ThinkMaths’ Pixel Spreadsheet Filed under: Daily Create Tagged: dailycreate, ds106, excel, photo, pixel spreadsheet, san francisco, tdc770, thinkmaths

A digital story is more than words, more than images, more than music–a digital story, like TV but in smaller bites, in more interactive bits, more tangible and touchable people–other internet users, just other members of the population of fellow people, all of whom have stories. Storycorps.org has some wonderful digital stories. Not all of them […]

Man, Richard Dawkins hates religion. The sum of this essay is that we are now connected in a way that seemed impossible years ago, and that will seem silly years from now. This interconnection is turning us into a kind-of organism, or is blurring the line between self and society, in that systems of inter-/intra-communication […]

My daily internet go-to is Zoho Mail. I’m an e-mail addict–I check it about every 20 minutes, even though Zoho Mail gets pushed to my iPhone and iPad, and I usually have a tab open so I can see if something comes in. I used to use Outlook through my school, but when I learned […]

This article suffers from many of the classic flaws in discriminatory and invalidating thinking about computers/the computing generation that I’ve explored in other annotations, but I think some of them are successfully answered by Gardner & Davis and others. Turkle argues that growing up using computers has changed the ways that students think–not in the […]

Originally posted on N E U R O N A R R A T I V E:
“If you think our incessant use of the Internet, Blackberrys, iPods, text-messaging and video games has changed our lives and our children’s lives, here’s some breaking news: Technology has not only altered our lives, it’s altered our brains.”…

I read around in this book, though one day when I have time, I’d like to sit down and read the rest. Overall, I’m not appalled by this, which is more than I can say for most publications about the app/millennial/me/digital/digital native generation. Jeez, I think we should be called the label generation. What I […]

- Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change This quote was brought up today in class. I have to disagree wholeheartedly. First, who does not understand what they are meaning to reply to? We have to first understand, and in a different way, when we are listening […]

This article makes an appeal to educators to accept that the students they teach are different from those of the past, mainly because of the introduction of computer technology into the everyday lives of those students at an early age. He asserts that teachers need to adapt to and learn the digital language, as they […]

I am what I read because I am digital. I am digital, so I read digital, which makes me digital, so I read digital….and so on.Filed under: Daily Create Tagged: daily create, digital, digital natives, other media, selfie

Ramsay and Rockwell’s animation of a dialogue makes arguments for and against considering computer coding and programming as language/text/writing. Ultimately, I agree with the idea that it is language, because it is communicative (regardless of its constriction), it is governed by rules, and it works through substitution of signifiers for signifieds–our minds interpret and “look […]

Price takes down the NEA’s report, “to read or not to read,” which draws correlation between readers and those who are fit, active, happy,  kinder, better citizens. However, the report narrows reading to reading for “literary experience,” excluding reading done for school or work, nonfiction, daily reading in labels and records and correspondence, and surfing […]