End of the line
Today is the end of the line for The Internet Course. I am truly amazed at the work that the class has done, and I think we’ve all learned a lot through this experience. I feel like I could have … Continue reading →
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Ownership and utilities
You see in this world there’s two kinds of people, my friend: Those with loaded guns, and those who dig (Leone 1966). That line comes from The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, Sergio Leone’s classic spaghetti western. In the … Continue reading → -
Professionals and convicts
Yesterday’s research group in The Internet Course took a look at online dating. This is a fascinating topic because it has a historical aspect (computer matchmaking goes back to the 60s), an economic aspect (apparently it’s a bigger business online … Continue reading → -
A timeline from Twitter
The ever-observant Mariana Funes brought something to my attention: .@phb256 of any use for #tic? They welcome suggestions http://t.co/TR00NDx1RG — Mariana Funes (@mdvfunes) April 12, 2014 The link goes to A timeline of the history of the World Wide Web, and … Continue reading → -
Raw history
Jim’s been digging in to the history of the internet during the Internet Course, and one of the groups is looking specifically at ARPANET for their project. I thought it might be interesting to see what kind of official documents … Continue reading → -
Taking chances
We took some chances with the way we set up The Internet Course. The skeletal syllabus in particular was a big risk. It meant that the whole course hinged upon the students putting the effort into finding, analyzing, synthesizing and … Continue reading → -
Everything old is new again
We were talking about how everything old is new again in The Internet Course yesterday. E-commerce is a new thing, with a huge economic impact, but it’s also kinda like the 21st century version of the Sears & Roebuck catalog. … Continue reading → -
Impacts
I used to work in printing. The internet had some impact on the way we did things at my company, but nothing major. When we were being bought out by one of our competitors, I started working on an advanced … Continue reading → -
Eversion
I started writing this a few weeks ago and never got around to finishing it enough to be postable until now. I mentioned William Gibson’s work before. He said something about the “increasingly atemporal nature of music” (may or may … Continue reading → -
Ed on TED
Snowden gave a talk at TED about privacy and security and IP. I’m fascinated by his rolling robot presence – like Max Headroom 2.0. I wonder what that might mean for the future of the internet? -
Digital serendipity
After Tuesday’s discussion of digital identity, in an amazing bit of serendipity, Bon Stewart tweeted about her blog post on that very subject. She talks about creating a secondary identity for research purposes and then having to come to terms … Continue reading → -
Digital Identity
A lot of last week’s discussion touched on issues of digital identity, which is cool because it gives the course an extra level of flow and cohesion. There seemed to be quite a bit of concern over privacy, which is … Continue reading → -
Privacy and openness
One of the things I like about the topics in The Internet Course is that they can be interpreted pretty broadly. This week we’re looking at privacy and openness. They can be seen as in opposition to each other, or … Continue reading → -
OSS
Open source software came up in the discussion of intellectual property and fair use in The Internet Course. I wasn’t really expecting it to come up at that point, but I was planning on bringing it into the discussion of … Continue reading → -
Not so black and white
The Copyright Clause of the US Constitution gives Congress the power “To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.” The legal … Continue reading → -
Saving Cmaps online for collaboration
Here’s a little lengthy bit about how to save Cmaps online for group collaboration. So here’s my map. I have it saved on my laptop and now I’m going to save it to an online server. The first thing is … Continue reading → -
Consumption Patterns
The internet has had a huge impact on how we consume information and media. I wonder what the long-term cultural outcome of that will be. How does it change how we experience music? And how will that change our culture? … Continue reading → -
Apparently I’m Zordon…
The panelists = Power Rangers @phb256 ‘s floating head on the screen behind them = Zordon #tic104 — Amber M. (@FoxyLee13) February 18, 2014 The Internet Course had a great discussion this evening. The theme for the week is creation/consumption, … Continue reading → -
Coherence
I belatedly came across a blog post by George Siemens on The Challenge of Coherence that got me thinking asbout some of the things we’re doing in The Internet Course. He talks about how teachers traditionally make sense out of … Continue reading → -
The Internet: creation/consumption
They say we live in a media saturated world these days, with our always-on connections to the internet. But really we’ve always been in a media saturated world, at least as long as most of us have been alive. The … Continue reading → -
Down a gopher hole
I was curious about this Gopher thing. I had heard of it before, but I don’t think I’ve heard of anyone actually using it, even back in the day. Here’s an image I used to use with classes when talking … Continue reading → -
Mapping the course
One of the things we’re doing in The Internet Course is mapping out ideas and concepts from the students’ research, visualizing connections between them and how they relate to the major topics of the course. I sort of stole the mapping … Continue reading → -
Map happy
The class has come up with a lot of great concept maps so far. It is interesting to look at all the different approaches too. There’s no one right way to do it, although some end up being more useful … Continue reading → -
The future of communication
Future, past and present are all zones on the continuum of history. There is a trend we can see throughout human history that more people sharing more information more widely, more rapidly, leads to more and more advances in the … Continue reading → -
History
One of the things about history is that it is ongoing. That is not only because of new events, but also because of the reinterpretation of old events. Many of the Internet History articles we found were a little old, late … Continue reading → -
Talking CRAAP
We have started color coding the entries in the reading list – red, yellow and green. Red means find a different reading. This could be because someone else got it first, or because it didn’t stand up to scrutiny. Green … Continue reading → -
Bravo to Amber!
… for putting the first reading on the list: “Is Broadband Internet Access a Public Utility?” This article makes a good test case for what is good enough for the list. Two big points from the CRAAP test are Authority … Continue reading → -
Internet on training wheels
I liked the things Jim said in class: “People had to be taught how to use the internet.” When AOL was the big thing (Is it still a thing?), people used to snark on it as “Internet on training wheels.” … Continue reading → -
Putting a Cmap into a blog post
There are a few different ways to put a Cmap into a blog post. If I wanted to be lame, I could make the map into an image either by taking a screen shot or exporting the map as an … Continue reading → -
Playing with CMAP
Here I’m experimenting with mapping things out with Cmap Tools. I used Vannevar Bush’s seminal article “As We May Think” as the central concept and connected some related things, like a little about the author and what he envisioned, and … Continue reading →
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