About raptnrent: I got the name from my keys - R Apt and R Ent for the back door to my apartment and the back door to the house. I liked that they were also words: Rapt, meaning enthralled, riveted, captivated, and Rent, meaning torn asunder, violently wrenched. I thought it made for an interesting juxtaposition, open to all kinds of interpretations.
Tag Archives: tic104
A note about article URLs
If the URL for your reading has ezproxy.umw.edu in it somewhere, then it is restricted to the UMW community. In cases like that, take the full title of the reading and google it. It might help to put the title … Continue reading
Cmap Tools
We’re going to work with concept mapping in the first part of the course, and we’re going to use Cmap Tools to do it. It’s a free download developed by the Institute for Human & Machine Cognition, which is part of the … Continue reading
Of summaries and Cmaps
We’re putting a lot of work up front in this class, but it’s distributed to be manageable, and the load will lessen for a few weeks afterwards. This evening the class will brainstorm how we plan on approaching the main … Continue reading
We’re not like the others. We’re your friends.
Our “Welcome to the Internet!” email went out a while ago to all those registered for The Internet Course. It was meant to be intimidating, but hopefully not too intimidating. More like the scene above than Ben Hur (YT). We’re … Continue reading
Your brain on the internet
The communicator badge, the enhanced vision visor that Geordie LaForge wears, and the attached and embedded technology of the Borg are all examples of wearable computing, in a sense, but they also represent a continuum of connection. The badge is … Continue reading
Cartography
I thought the map of the social impacts of the internet was a great project for The Internet Course. Here is the map: View Larger Map It serves as another awesome example of the benefits of putting the students in … Continue reading
Odd futures
The Internet Society has a page of possible futures for the internet, not all positive. Something I find interesting about them is that they put these scenarios together in 2009, projecting ten years ahead. So we’re halfway between their vantage point … Continue reading
Impact mapping
Jessi, of the illustrious Internet Course crew, suggested that we cover the impacts of the internet through a Google map. It seems counterintuitive to me – I think of the internet as the cloud, the ether, so geolocating its impacts would never have … Continue reading
Playing with HTML
We’re playing with HTML in The Internet Course this week as a part of looking at how the internet works. I like doing this because it gets our hands dirty with what goes on in the background. It also ties … Continue reading
Blogging the internet
I don’t blog enough. Somebody should do something about that. I might have to make that my blog’s slogan, since Jim puts me to shame. But he does that to everybody. Writing is a laborious process for me. I think … Continue reading