Category Archives: technology

Blogging from my iphone finally – no place to click like

Blogging from my iPhone not wanting it to be status update on facebook Twitter or myspace.
Not really thinking of anything clever or otherwise to write.
Writing to get the feel of typing in my blog from my iPhone as I wait for the dinner order at a restaurant.

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Examining Spindle technology – success at last

I found really good instructions on how to use the top spindle from youtube and finally got the hang of it. Of course I dont look very expert – but the job gets done.
Am currently using twisted.etsy.com ’s rodney colorway roving that I got way back in spring of 2008 and am practicing handspun yarn. [...]

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Framing the Loom…

So now I am at ICA – up at 4 am thinking of how to frame the loom.
I guess I used it to “rupture” the idea of “virtual” “global” and “technology”  in my precon presentation and my OU presentation – but now I have to put forth what S and Sh have articulated with [...]

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Call for Papers: Edited Collection on Digital Embodiment, Performativity and Globalization

PLEASE SUBMIT ABSTRACTS ASAP  (deadline is still tentative – so if you are working on something relevant email me anyway with a query).  Title: Everyday 3D Lives: Digital Embodiment, Performativity and GlobalizationEditor : Radhika Gajjala[ http://personal.bgsu.edu/~radhik ](Lexington Press is interested and I am discussing this collection with them)  In the recent past, there has been much [...]

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Three faculty members at the BGSU Island opening on Friday (SL)

IRL – Anthony Fontana, Linda Mandelbaum and Radhika Gajjala

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And while I am griping…

Who took Pedagogy out and put Technology in to replace it?

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Research paradigms, IRBs, Epistemologies of online research…

There is a very interesting discussion going on on the AIR-L list that I am trying not to get drawn into replying to posts on. Too much stuff to do here with Grad step week and all (and last week the Digital Mirror and New Faculty presentation as well as prep for Grad step week [...]

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conceptual Quilting

to find out more about what it means to “quilt conceptually” according to rad Zabibha (born in 2006) and Cyb Tabla (born in 2004)
go to http://slurl.com/secondlife/Brouwer/172/149/42
work in-progress – always
considering also linking to Diva’s earlier moo projects – at least those that are still accessible

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SLumming » community, discussion and building for dialogue on SL

SLumming » community, discussion and building for dialogue on SL
Sample image of an RL Maidaan
http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/Asia/India/photo701549.htm

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The sled thread continues…

The archives aren’t updated yet – but when they do you can find the discussion…
Meanwhile – cutting and pasting a part of my most recent post to invite anyone in-world to IM me to be a part of the group I am forming.
THIS discussion is to me about SL education and how we as educators [...]

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