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 [...]


A Moment of Levity

02.26.09 Posted in Social Media, twitter by Shelley

So, I saw this link breeze by on my Twitter feed today and thought it was really funny and relevant, so I am linking it here…It’s too long to post, so you’ll just have to go look at it. It’s called A Completely Unscientific (Yet Accurate) Look at Social Sites S


New Project Frustrations

02.25.09 Posted in Social Media, research by Shelley

I am working on a new project with some classmates evaluating the effectiveness of differentiated instruction on third-grade gifted readers. Part of that project implements some web 2.0 functionalities that are proving difficult to implement. So, I am again spending the morning attempting to get my logins, wikis, and blogs working consistently. Unfortunately, this is [...]