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.
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Digital serendipity
After Tuesday’s discussion of digital identity, in an amazing bit of serendipity, Bon Stewart tweeted about her blog post on that very subject. She talks about creating a secondary identity for research purposes and then having to come to terms … Continue reading
Digital Identity
A lot of last week’s discussion touched on issues of digital identity, which is cool because it gives the course an extra level of flow and cohesion. There seemed to be quite a bit of concern over privacy, which is … Continue reading
Privacy and openness
One of the things I like about the topics in The Internet Course is that they can be interpreted pretty broadly. This week we’re looking at privacy and openness. They can be seen as in opposition to each other, or … Continue reading
OSS
Open source software came up in the discussion of intellectual property and fair use in The Internet Course. I wasn’t really expecting it to come up at that point, but I was planning on bringing it into the discussion of … Continue reading
Not so black and white
The Copyright Clause of the US Constitution gives Congress the power “To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.” The legal … Continue reading
Saving Cmaps online for collaboration
Here’s a little lengthy bit about how to save Cmaps online for group collaboration. So here’s my map. I have it saved on my laptop and now I’m going to save it to an online server. The first thing is … Continue reading
Consumption Patterns
The internet has had a huge impact on how we consume information and media. I wonder what the long-term cultural outcome of that will be. How does it change how we experience music? And how will that change our culture? … Continue reading
Apparently I’m Zordon…
The panelists = Power Rangers @phb256 ‘s floating head on the screen behind them = Zordon #tic104 — Amber M. (@FoxyLee13) February 18, 2014 The Internet Course had a great discussion this evening. The theme for the week is creation/consumption, … Continue reading
Coherence
I belatedly came across a blog post by George Siemens on The Challenge of Coherence that got me thinking asbout some of the things we’re doing in The Internet Course. He talks about how teachers traditionally make sense out of … Continue reading
The Internet: creation/consumption
They say we live in a media saturated world these days, with our always-on connections to the internet. But really we’ve always been in a media saturated world, at least as long as most of us have been alive. The … Continue reading