Once again, I assigned HTML portfolios to my professional communication course. Many of these students experienced HTML for the first time this semester, so most of the sites are pretty remarkable. Lisa Bessman Renota Dennard Crystal Jones Amy Lindsey Nychie Quinton Natalie Roberts Everett Searcy John Van Buskirk Jakie Wade Wendy Williams Trish Williamson
Archive | April, 2003
Invisibility
This is fun. News Observer reports that Ray M. Alden, an inventor, can make things invisible. By using an intricate system of “pixels” to transmit and receive light from an object’s surroundings, the suit (or whatever) would blend that object into the background, obscuring it from any perspective. Cool. Could I wear it in my [...]
iPods in GA!
In a article today (thanks, A!), MacCentral reports that Georgia College & State University is using iPods in an innovative way. Two classes expanded their interdisciplinary curricula to include music, lectures, and course information to be disseminated by iPods: Two iMacs were placed in separate computer labs to serve as the “mother ship” for student [...]
Theory Lost?
From an email forward (thanks, W): The reasons for the demise of Theory are several but are spun together by historical trends: worth thinking about are the ascension of the Capitalist right to power. Money seems to be the premier good of our current culture and through the judicious use of money to finance candidates, [...]
Blogs
This semester, I tried something new. Instead of using the traditional media of the collage classroom, dead trees and ink interfaces, I decided to try assigning a weekly blog. I figured that since the class would address the theoretical aspects of “new media,” actually using components of that media seemed, well, a logical step. The [...]
Big Brother
This has been a biotech news kind of week. Scientist David Gelernter reviews Bill McKibben’s latest book Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age in Wired. McKibben forcasts “a frightening catastrophe brought on by human obliviousness” from casual genetic modifications to human beings. He sees designer babies as bound to backfire, like buying the latest computer and [...]
Revisionary Mythmaking
Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge. Whether it is obscuring state language or the faux-language of mindless media; whether it is the proud but calcified language of the academy or the commodity driven language of science; whether it is the [...]
