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Comment on "Model For Blog Comments"

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:03:27 -0500

I posted about the notional of horizontal contributions last night and am really excited about the possibilities. Isagenix

- Isagenix

Comment on "My interest in wave explained more succinctly "

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:31:19 -0500

Yeah, it's definitely got my mind all grokked up. Whether that's a good thing or bad remains to be seen. I'll tell you this much -- the possibilities of Wave are simultaneously mind-boggling and terrifying. I feel like if humans accept this technology and fully integrate it into their modus operandi it could spark the dawning of the age of aquarius.

- Adam Welch

Comment on "My interest in wave explained more succinctly "

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:05:58 -0500

Brad, thanks for expanding on this during our lunchtime discussion today, to help this nondeveloper get a little closer to grokking it.

- MARY ELIZABETH JANZEN

Comment on "Blurring The Boundaries: New Models For Teaching and OER"

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:02:24 -0500

Thanks for this, Brad. You have it exactly right about the strategy to perform research and teaching in the open, with others, using the blogs at PSU platform as the site of digital community.

I would add that all of this is based on the conviction that learning happens in community and that technology can be used to cultivate communities of learning that cut across boundaries in all sorts of ways.

I tried to articulate some of my thinking behind the practice as well as show something of the practice itself in the presentation you mentioned entitled, Integrating Teaching and Research with Technology.

None of this, however, would be possible without the work you, Brad, have done to enable me to develop a digital blog space that fits my teaching and research ideals. You have always been committed to the idea that the pedagogy should drive the technology. This is critical.

Further, I very much appreciate your ongoing commitment to open education. Penn State was founded as a land grant institution designed to make education more accessible as a public good. I see this as the continuation and transformation of this important tradition in a digital age.

- Christopher P. Long

Comment on "misguided wave ideas"

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:00:52 -0500

Words can't begin to describe that video. You make very interesting points, Bradley. It's hard for me to imagine Wave as a protocol and not a juiced-up version of Google Docs. I haven't played with it yet, so I am like a child who wanders into the room in the middle of a movie and wants to know what's going on. Now if Wave can someday render Outlook obsolete, I'll be a happy man. And if you guys need help producing your Wave video... just let me know. I'll call Unkie Dave.

- Adam Welch

Comment on "misguided wave ideas"

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 10:58:55 -0500

I couldn't agree more. At the end of the day, that video may very well be the most amazing thing I have ever seen. Maybe ETS should produce one of those about Wave? It would be amazing to watch in a decade!

- Cole W. Camplese

Comment on "Digital Publishing Presentation at CIC CIO Tech Forum #cictf09"

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:55:30 -0500

There was some perking, yes. I think the fact that we have not built this blogging platform in isolation, but built in on top of existing infrastructure, and also surrounded it with support, both technical and pedagogical is what grabbed people's attention. This is what has allowed us to see the "blog is many things" dream realized.

- Brad Kozlek

Comment on "Digital Publishing Presentation at CIC CIO Tech Forum #cictf09"

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:28:56 -0500

By the time I gave them my 'takeaways' I felt like a coach who had overdone his pep talk, as if I had just said, "Win one for the Gipper"....for the 12th time in 45 minutes. Brad, I really enjoyed being a part of this presentation and look forward to expanding the 'uses' discussions with the projects we are doing in Liberal Arts 101 and Biology 12 (the big one).

- MATTHEW N MEYER

Comment on "Digital Publishing Presentation at CIC CIO Tech Forum #cictf09"

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 07:27:20 -0500

Looks like a great slide deck! I'd be curious in the reactions of people ... I did check the twitter stream during/after the talk and the three of you seemed to perk the interest of some folks.

- Cole

Comment on "Reminds me of electric football"

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 08:52:50 -0500

Wow! Power Trowels that you ride...Some people get to have ALL the fun at work. This could be the next amusement ride craze--Bumper Power Trowels! Thanks Brad.

- Farley Hill

Comment on "Mixed Ink - social voting meets collaborative editing"

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 01:05:03 -0500

An interesting video. Thanks for posting!

- ink

Comment on "Video post directly from iPhone"

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:56:53 -0500

This video turned out more bizarre than I imagined it would. The weird way the shaky iphone got translated when converted to flash and the horrific poster frame combined to make some sort of nightmare.

- Brad Kozlek

Comment on "Lessons learned from using posterous"

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 17:12:21 -0500

I love Posterous. I've been using it for a while for exactly the same reasons you've mentioned here. It's easy, and it JUST. WORKS.

Happily in love with Posterous for about a year now, and now that I can have content notifications sent to other networks I love it even more.

Being a content creator should always be about the content - not figuring out how to share it.

- Shannon

Comment on "Stuff Flowing"

Sun, 20 Sep 2009 18:02:00 -0500

OK, so how did you do it? I am interested in doing this immediately. Very clever and very smart for a whole bunch of reasons.

- Cole W. Camplese

Comment on "the community effect: flickr versus twitter"

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:35:18 -0500

This is the argument I've been making for some time now (an example) ... maybe my blog acts as a pass through to all the other places I want to participate. When I upload here I own the picture in my own space ... but then it auto posts it to Flickr, where I can add it to a group or a pool. Then Twitter tells the world and new people see it. I think we can have it all. FB is trying to do the same thing, but locked into their own little private Idaho. I want it under my name and under my control.

- Cole Camplese

Comment on "the community effect: flickr versus twitter"

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 08:16:06 -0500

Hi Brad,

First off. Amazing photo of Golden Gate. I've always enjoyed your pictures. I think you have an eye for capturing the essence of what's in the frame.

I agree with your breakdown of the two apps. and the way they foster connections. I also struggle with keeping things in a centralized place that is "me". In fact, an unintended consequence of these apps. is I'm finding personal layers of me, that used to only exist in some internal place are now being actualized in the either. And I wrestle with what to do about it.

- Jeff Swain

Comment on "twitter and the portable social graph"

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:25:32 -0500

Thanks for the encouragement, Cole. I have some more tangents that radiate from this hub that I hope flesh out in the coming days.

Twitter is really in a fascinating place. Can't wait to see where it all leads.

- Brad

Comment on "twitter and the portable social graph"

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:43:20 -0500

No. You are using it how you want to and I think if you ask the Twitter people they'd agree that Twitter is a platform that promotes multiple uses. In a lot of ways that philosophy is the same as what we talk about with the Blogs at PSU ... that it is an open framework designed to let us leverage it for all sorts of things.

I love this line of thinking and I never thought I'd use Twitter to move my community but it is exactly what I am doing as well. Very interesting thought, observation, and line of thinking. I think it is worth quite a bit more exploration and discussion.

- Cole Camplese

Comment on "Blogging: Do it for yourself"

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 08:55:15 -0500

Tom Peters says it perfectly, "the most important thing" he's done in the last 15 years. I couldn't agree more. Without my space to write I wouldn't be writing -- and writing is critical to how I think and share. Great find!

- Cole Camplese

Comment on "#ldsc09"

Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:40:23 -0500

Although being part of the whole revolution, I'm still amazed by how ETS collaborates with faculty re-defined what blogs can do. The vision you have had has been realized!

- TK Lee