W. A. Pannapacker published an article in http://chronicle.com Section: The Chronicle Review Volume 55, Issue 24, Page B4 titled How to Procrastinate like Leonardo da Vinci. Here are the last three paragraphs of the piece. The second paragraph below was especially striking to me. Leonardo is just one example of an individual whose meaning has […]
Tagged leonardo, leonardo da vinci, procrastiantionIn thinking about how metadata is used necessarily in searching for most non-text items, a related concept of how far we are from what we seek in a search. In some cases all we can use is metadata. For example when we search for an image, We cannot present an image to a search engine […]
So if you have come across some media on the Web that you like what can you legally do with it? The term legally is important here, because for any item on the Web (a network) we know we can make an exact copy it and save it on our computer or a memory card/stick […]
Tagged copyright, multimediaIn the Beginning…was the Command Line A short, interesting book that is a related series of essays about the relationship between Unix or Linux with a way to understand a computer. This is overlayed with a discussion of the superiority of Unix/Linux to the major windowed operating systems, OsX and Windows. A particularly interesting and […]
Tagged book review, stephensonYou can’t avoid it. The hardware and software technology that supports the Web makes it relatively easy and quite natural to make information in all sorts of formats – text, images, audio, video – available. With a high speed connection to the Internet you can experience all these formats quite easily. Virtually all the news […]
Tagged multimedia, resourcesWhen I was a graduate student at a large university in the east in the early 1970’s, Thinking we were reinventing the world we had the experience of starting food co-ops, going to a free store – take or leave what you want with no charge, and developing or participating in the free university. The […]
Tagged free university, open courseware, podcastOur Bombs – Air Strike Tracker The Air Strike Tracker chronicles every reported U.S. air strike that has affected civilians since September 11, 2001. The visual interface makes information about each incident from numerous sources highly accessible, often providing the ability to view online videos and other relevant media. You can browse incidents by location, […]
Tagged air strikes, bob graham, bombs, cia, tortureGuest Column: Math and the City – Olivia Judson Blog – NYTimes.com One of the pleasures of looking at the world through mathematical eyes is that you can see certain patterns that would otherwise be hidden. This week’s column is about one such pattern. It’s a beautiful law of collective organization that links urban studies […]
Tagged library of congress, loc, mathematicsAt the first session of Faculty Academy, UMW. Joe Dreiss is talking about using Google Earth in the teaching of art history. The point is that travel is important to the study of  art history, and Google Earth is helpful to visit important sites, helping to give a sense of scale and location.  The presentation […]
Tagged art history, biology, diagnostic question cluster, dimdim, dqc, drupal, elluminate, faculty academy
Political Cartoons. President Obama Speaking to Schools
President Obama will be making a brief speech/presentation to school children on Tuesday, Sept 8, 2009 at Noon. Â You would think that was a benign and laudatory act. WE do live in times where the rude, crude, and threatened have a strong voice. Â In Stafford County where I live, the School Board voted to show […]
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