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 in [...]

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 and guided more [...]