Welcome from rainy, windy Philadelphia. I’ve been down here the past couple of days for the biennial meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence. Below I will list an eclectic mix of quick travel, research, and conference thoughts: Here’s a painfully obvious, but oft neglected list of essentials when it comes to preparing your …
Society for Research on Adolescence (SRA) Next Meeting: Biennial Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, March 10-13, 2010 Plan: I’m presenting 3 pieces of research in a paper symposium at the upcoming meeting. Previous Meetings Publications Society for Research on Child Development (SRCD) Next Meeting: Biennial Meeting, Montreal, Canada, March 31 – April 2, 2011. Deadline for Submissions: …
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This is perhaps a curious debut post for my blog, but it’s these types of things that I think about during a 70 mile (one-way) commute. I hope that this blog would provide encouragement and interesting ideas for those interested (and/or immersed) in higher education and educational technology. I make no promises. At it’s broadest …
If I were to tweet this commentary, you’d get this: blogging, tweeting, texting oh my: I visited the Web 2.0 zoo and all I brought you back was melodramatic self-indulgence and two sore thumbs. Go ahead and count the characters; all 140 are there like a 21st Century Haiku homage to a 20th Century classic. …
I caught the tail end of a very interesting PBS “American Masters” special on Jerry Robbins (of West Side Story, Fiddler on the Roof, and Gypsy fame to name a few) last night. I had previously no knowledge of the man, and I consider myself less than an expert on Broadway musicals and ballet. Yet …
I am unable to confirm whether bombasity is an actual word. It’s not in the dictionary proper, but a Google search yields 986 hits so I trust it will eventually become a part of our vernacular, because Google is knowledge. I do know that bombasity has very little to do with Shaggy (for the Mr. …
[This was written for an assignment of sorts and, as a result, is long, somewhat pedantic, and self-indulgent — all being requisites.] As a developmentalist and someone who is deeply interested in technology and learning, I think that technology is changing humans in important ways (e.g., psychosocial development, identity development, cognition, etc). Over the past …