Tag Archives: twitter

#TWTRCON DC 09 notes 0

If anyone’s interested, here are my notes from TWTRCON DC 09.  I make no guarantees on their quality or thoroughness – I’m not particularly good at keeping meeting minutes, so I apologize in advance for their incoherence.  But they’re there if you weren’t able to attend and want to check them out.

Why Twitter matters 7

I feel compelled, in light of recent events, to attempt to say something constructive about Twitter.  After being recently Oprah-ed, Twitter has been thrust into the purview of public knee-jerk criticism—and everyone’s got an opinion.  I won’t deny my own skepticism when I signed up over a year ago.  It smacked of narcissism, and [...]

Radical experiment in teaching – World Simulation, Twitter, and media literacy 1

Last week Dr. Wesch and his class ran the 5th(?) successful World Simulation for Intro to Cultural Anthropology here at K-State. I was there helping get things set up and video taping the action. Every year the World Sim always proves to be an awesome experience. Having taught for Dr. Wesch twice [...]