Last Thursday, the usual support and admiration, humorous or not, of GoDaddy’s assets, disintegrated. A boycott against the domain name giant for its support of Stop Internet Piracy Act (“SOPA”) caused the company to change lanes and not only stop supporting SOPSA, but to come out and publically oppose the act. CNET,reported that GoDaddy CEO Warren Adelman saw as increase… Read more →
“Congratulations! Your Roundtable submission, Rethinking and Retooling Literacy Paradigms: An Epistemological Model for Implementing Constructivist Practices in the Digital Classroom, has been accepted for presentation at the 2012 Annual Eastern Educational Research Association Conference at the Westin Hilton Head Island on February 15-18, 2012.” Well, it is official, the news came today! I have been holding my breath for a… Read more →
I heart Emily Bell. There I said it. Emily Bell, director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia, is a wealth of knowledge regarding where communication is going. In this candid video, she discusses the key elements that are and will continue to shape how we communicate and interact with media. She advocates (in no particular order): Journalism… Read more →
Tomorrow I will be presenting at my first conference since graduation from my doctoral program in August. I’m presenting a research study on the correlation between teacher race, educational level, and school composition, and disproportionate retention rates among elementary school students at GERA. As a graduate student I became quite the scholar of Critical Race Theory and the silent variable… Read more →
One of the most common questions I am asked is, “What program to you use to develop your site?” That answer has changed a lot over the past decade of designing and maintaining different web sites for student use, professional development, and different classes that I have taught. In the late nineties, I was a FrontPage fan. When that began… Read more →
Presently, I am three weeks from my graduation ceremony! Several years of late night classes, dissertation writing, and holding my APA manual tightly, is coming to an end. I had an old colleague ask me a few days ago, “So, what are you trading in all that writing and research for?” What am I trading it for? Hum…good question. I think the… Read more →
