“..and routes around it” – John Gilmore This article from the Chronicle of Higher Education article is a case in point. (was tweeted by @acalderon52 via @fredgarnett): Fear of Repression Spurs Scholars and Activists to Build Alternate Internets It…
Scott Adams, creator of the awesome Dilbert strip, has blogged about why the best way to kill creativity is to encourage it. The creative impulse will out, usually as a response to discomfort or insecurity. Creating an environment which is “condus…
The Digested Digest Get out more! The Digest Fieldwork is an essential part of the learning experience for the geo, geosocial and life sciences that needs protecting given current squeezes on finances. We saw how mobile learning is enabling a blur…
Been thinking about how you could set up a QR code-based tresure hunt activity – scanning a QR code in a location brings up a Google Maps link showing where the next clue is, and so on. It might be a way of structuring field trip activities – at e…
I’d stumbled upon ARIS about a year ago but never had a chance to try it out until recently. Given that I’m now doing workshops on geolocation stuff and I’m presenting at an Enhancing Fieldwork showcase, it seemed the right moment to try. ARIS is …
John Johnston has recently blogged about a mapping project called Hmsg maps that’s worth a look. It’s an elegant bit of digital storytelling from Charles Veasey and J. Craig Thompson where they traced a spiral shaped path from a key location in Ne…
Google+ has been causing a bit of a stir over the last week as people with invites have been putting it through its paces. I don’t have an invite. 🙁 But then, neither do the other people in my core network. Watching the tweets come in about how p…
Hat tip to @sboneham for tweeting this one. Douglas Rushkoff talks about the lack of public understanding about what technologies like Facebook are for; allowing companies to monetise the data that we willingly surrender to them. I’ve heard Miles …
As part of our Netskills workshop on using social networking for community participation we have guidance on putting together a social media strategy, involving aims, outcomes, methods, individual responsibilities etc. One question I want to inclu…