Recently a new augmented reality app called Capsule came to my attention. It is intended to be an augmented reality social network based on location. Having an unique moment while walking somewhere in the city? Take a photo or video, put it into a capsule and drop at the location where...
Cool Tools: Podcasting with Audacity (and beyond)
At the beginning of this semester, I gave a little lab-internal introduction to audio recording and editing. Since then, a number of people have asked me to share the materials from this workshop or come to their class and get their students going on podcast projects. (more…)
The Digital Classroom
Image by: Ron Mader One of the most shocking facts I tell my students: I didn’t have a cellphone my freshman year of college. Nor did I have a laptop and tablets were still science fiction tech that only existed in Star Trek. I’m by definition a Millennial, but I'm not quite...
Does this font make me look amateur?
Designers have strong feelings about fonts and will spend hours picking out a font, making it the right size, moving it around to the right place. There are font that should never be used—Papyrus and Comic Sans always seem to make the list. Whereas other fonts are considered top notch—Times...
From the Archive: Learning To Move: Connecting Pedagogy With Context Through A Difficult Classroom
The lab is hosting a open house this coming Friday that showcases the pedagogical work that our staff members have been doing this semester. We're planning on rearranging one of our rooms a bit to fit everyone in, and this got us thinking about how drastically the physical classroom can...
You’re Invited: Digital Pedagogy Open House
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Past the Littlefield Fountain: Turning Missing Statues Into Teaching Opportunities
Have you ever been planning a lesson, and the resource you're looking for isn't there? Maybe it's a YouTube video you saw that would be perfect, maybe it's just a simple handout. Either way, a missing resource can be extremely frustrating, especially if you didn't have time to check the...
African American English, Appropriation and Corporate Culture Killers
So, you might have heard that Taco Bell’s marketing strategy is “on cleek.” (If you get what’s funny about this, read right on; if not: their marketing genius is appropriating and obviously butchering the expression on fleek, derived from African American English and recently popularized on social media.) It’s easy...
The Problem with Appropriation
In a recent blog post, I talked about the opportunities Twitter offers for tracing processes by which the cultural mainstream appropriates African American English linguistic practices, often for gains in material as well as cultural capital. In that post, I focused on the how of the critique without going into...
Augmenting Our Realities
Want your students to feel like Iron Man? Okay... our project isn't able to do that (yet), but we're excited to share our progress with you! (more…)