“Self-awareness is more useful for sophisticated self-congratulation than for readiness to go out onto that unknown plain with the Red Crosse Knight, Una, the dwarf, and the donkey.” <dripping with the sarcasm accordant any devout curator/champion/nomad of the meta-level> I have found that blogging with the frequency we discussed in vtclis12 class is very difficult […]

<vtclis12-ers, sorry if this post isn’t your cup of tea.  I’m taking advantage of the freedom (protean nature) granted by Alan Kay being our recent author to say something on my mind.> One of the things I think I love the most about my typical day-to-day is that I am constantly being poked, prodded, and […]

Nelson’s concept of “collateration” has been stuck in my head ever since we talked about it in class last week.  He describes it as “the creation of such multiple and viewable links between any two data structures” and goes on to say that “it is general and powerful enough to handle a great variety of […]

I want to take a moment to try and step back a bit from the Cognition, Learning, and the Internet experience and openly reflect on what I’ve noticed, how I feel, etc..  I do so in the hopes that it might generate a bit of reflection and conversation among us about what is actually going […]

As I’ve mentioned before, I’ve been trying to use my blog to draw connections between two things I am currently doing – chatting/blogging with those in LDRS 1016 Exploring Citizen Leadership about things I care about and chatting/blogging with those in GRAD 5974 Cognition, Learning, and the Internet about things I care about.  I’ve been […]

On the mother blog for the Honors Residential College, they use the phrase “Narrate, Curate, Share” to discuss the “why” of blogging.  I hope you’ll read the description (written by our very own Dr. C) http://blogs.is.vt.edu/hrcblogs/about/ It brings up an interesting point to me that is related to my previous blog – how do we […]