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Tony Judt and the Life of the Mind Online

August 12, 2010
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Online, everyone lives the “life of the mind”. Our body hardly ever comes into play during social networking or online communication. Sure, you might use your finger to type. Do you ever feel like you’re so absorbed in what you’re reading or typing that you have to remind yourself that you are interacting with a computer?

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How Blog Posts Can Become Lessons

July 21, 2010
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If you have a blog, do you think you could make a lesson plan from all the work you’ve done? Could your blog posts become instructive exercises? If you reorganized your posts by category or theme, for example, could they tell an overarching story? Could you possibly organize your blog posts like a textbook?

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Preparing Students for Information Overload

May 10, 2010
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I know lots of people who waste hours and hours sitting in front of screens with glazed eyes and numb spirits. I also know a lot of people who abuse television, a medium that has been around for decades. But where would Obama be without television? How would he communicate his messages to citizens of this country?

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Better Than You but Worse Than That Guy

February 10, 2010
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Just yesterday, I was whining about how today’s media makers lack original thoughts. Well, I was challenged, annoyed, and intrigued by a 15-minute speech given by Keen, author of The Cult of the Amateur: How Today’s Internet Is Killing Our Culture. Last year, Keen spoke at an event discussing the role of audience.

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Improve Your Ability to Innovate

December 1, 2009
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In December’s Harvard Business Review, researchers identify five skills that separate true innovators from other smart people. What makes one person an innovator, able to trailblaze a path in the media jungle, and another person a wanderer, lost and seeking direction? Here, find descriptions of the skills and my practical advice.

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