Broken Promises

03.18.09 Posted in Social Media by Shelley

Okay, so a few days ago, I put it out there that I was going to do some reading and commenting, and, well, life got in the way. I thought if I published it, then I would obligate myself. Unfortunately, I simply haven’t had the time to give the articles their due attention, and will [...]


Henry Jenkins and Daniel Hickey

03.14.09 Posted in Social Media, education, research by Shelley

Recently, Henry Jenkins posted a white paper in a series of 8 blog posts discussing the importance of spreadability in media. In response to these posts, Daniel Hickey is evaluating the idea of spreadability with current educational practices in his own series of blog posts This is really exciting to me; these are my two [...]


My Case for The Kindle

03.11.09 Posted in iphone, kindle by Shelley

If you know me, then you know that I am technology forward; I have an iPhone, my field is Instructional Technology, and if you even think about touching my Mac, it will be the last thing you ever do. But I hesitated to adopt e-reader technology. I suppose, initially, my hesitation was based on some [...]


Nercomp 2009 – Educause Meeting

03.10.09 Posted in Social Media by Shelley

The Northeastern Educause conference is taking place in Rhode Island this week. You can follow the tweets from conference participants here S


Facebook vs. Twitter — Round 2

03.06.09 Posted in Social Media, facebook, twitter by Shelley

Facebook is about to launch a huge update. Starting next week, the users homepage is going to be feed-focused and updated in real time, a move seemingly aimed at matching the popular features offered by other tools, like Twitter and FriendFeed. These changes will clearly revamp Facebook in a Twitter-like way. A really nice, easy [...]


Kindle For iPhone

03.04.09 Posted in iphone, research by Shelley

Just Released: The Kindle app for iPhone. The article indicates that most functionality will be available on both platforms, and that the Kindle and iPhone will work together to save your place in a book, etc. This is really exciting news for my IMB group–we were looking into both iPhone and digital readers as possible [...]