the forgotten canon

After one week of intense collaboration, participants in the “One Week | One Tool” workshop <http://oneweekonetool.org>, organized by the Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University, are pleased to announce the launch of Anthologize <http://anthologize.org>, a free, open source tool to publish weblog content in a variety of book formats. Anthologiz...

I’ll be posting something more complete later tonight about my experiences at One Week | One Tool, but in the meantime, here’s a great view “inside the walls.” swfobject.embedSWF("http://www.youtube.com/v/ycIVnFkOIfQ&rel=0&fs=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=0", "vvq-254-youtube-1", "425", "344", "10", vvqexpressinstall, vvqflashvars, vvqparams, vvqattributes);

Regent University’s Theater Dept. tried something interesting: blend Shakespeare’s As You Like It with modern technology using texting, Twitter and Ning. As we entered the theater audience members were told they could subscribe to the text messages, follow the Tweetstream, or participate on a Ning. As interesting as the concept seemed to be it ended up being an epic failure. Issue #1...

The Council of Editors of Learned Journals announced (I think at MLA?) that Kairos won the 2008 award for Best Journal Design! A big high five to Karl Stolley and Doug Eyman, who were on the redesign team with me, Ashley Hall and Elizabeth Vincelette, ODU grad students who assisted the effort, and Cheryl Ball, who kicked butts and kept us on track! Congrats all! ...

This semester I had the awesome opportunity of teaching a graduate course in new media theory and practice. The final project for the course was a 10 – 15 minute visual argument. Although most of the students posted their videos to the course iTunes U site, two students chose to post their collaborative video to YouTube so I can share (and brag). ...