Triumphing Over Your “Little Hater”
My favorite hip-hop vlogger Jay Smooth has eloquently described those nagging voices that reside inside the heads of people who do creative work as “little haters.” Click here to view the embedded...
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Presidential Tweets?
I’m not really a big fan of the whole “John McCain is so old he can’t use a computer” line the Obama camp rolled out today. I think there are stronger, more necessary and relevant attacks that Obama...
View ArticleThe Baruch College Teaching Blog
I’d like to call your attention to a new blog we’re supporting here at Baruch College: The Baruch College Teaching Blog. Several faculty have agreed to post to the blog regularly, and to lead an...
View ArticleBut, professssssor!!!!
Dana McCourt, over at Edge of the American West, puts today’s campaign shenanigans into a context that any college teacher would understand: to: john.mccain@maverickymaverick.gov from:...
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Communication and the Campaign
If Barack Obama is elected President on November 4th, it will be in large part because of the sophisticated way his campaign has communicated with the American public. I was in Michigan this past...
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reCAPTCHA: The Essence of a Distributed Knowledge Network
We’ve all come across a CAPTCHA, a challenge response test that web sites give viewers who are trying to register for an account, leave a comment, or perform some other task that might be vulnerable to...
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Post Election Thoughts
As we all recover from the remarkable events of the past hours, days, and weeks, and begin to look forward at what a President Barack Hussein Obama might mean for the United States and the world, I...
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Thinking Behind a Redesign
I recently implemented a new design for the homepage for our installation of WordPress MultiUser– Blogs@Baruch. I tried to accomplish a few things with this redesign. Mostly, I wanted to update the...
View ArticleNow You Too Can Be An Instructional Technologist!
I get to tell Jewish jokes because I’m Jewish. I get to tell snob jokes because I’m a historian. I also get to tell instructional technologist jokes because I’m the Project Manager for Digital...
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An Experiment in Digital Storytelling
I was recently inspired, no surprise, by a post on Jim Groom’s Bavatuesdays: “A Childhood Without Proof.” This was about as close to schmaltz as the right Rev. Groom comes, and being a sap myself, I...
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In Which We Provide the Butt for Your Jokes
Click to See Full Size According to The Gothamist, the flyer on the right was scattered around the campus of New York University last week. The flyer announced NYU’s “In and Of the City Financial Aid...
View ArticleHoliday Habanera with the Muppets
Wishing our readers a very happy holidays and a splendid new year! Click here to view the embedded video. Hat tip to Hillary Miller, via Facebook.
View Article“Students today are…”
Branford Marsalis provocatively lays it down. Thoughts? Click here to view the embedded video. Via RateYourStudents.
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On the Horizon…
I’m happy to note that Blogs@Baruch received a mention in the annual Horizon Report, a document produced by Educause, an international non-profit organization “whose mission is to advance higher...
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What to Watch For: Super Bowl Edition
I was surprised when I got home last night to hear on my answering machine a message from Christine, the “Loyalty Team Manager” at Autoland, where my wife and I purchased a car two years ago....
View ArticleGuest Post: Support for Oral Communication within the ESL Curriculum at...
The following is a guest post from Professor Elisabeth Garies, of Baruch College’s Department of Communication Studies. She can be reached at Elisabeth.Gareis@baruch.cuny.edu. Oral communication...
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Facebook Owns You(r Original Content Produced On or Shared Through Their Tubes)
Image for art courtesy of Facebook.com Rest easy, Cacophoners; I just removed the “Share on Facebook” option from the “Share This” widget that appears beneath every post. For those who don’t know,...
View Article1000… 1001… 1002…
All the way up to 1143, and counting. That’s how many user accounts have been created over at Blogs@Baruch, and the numbers show how naturally Baruch College faculty, staff, and students have taken to...
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Wet Spaghetti
At the Harman Writer-in-Residence lecture at Baruch College on March 24, George Packer, who became well known through his reporting for the New Yorker on the invasion of Iraq, spoke of turning his...
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Think Before You Snark
We had a bit of an incident last week with a course that’s using Blogs@Baruch. In this course, every student was to keep a blog, which was then republished in an aggregator blog so that every...
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