The iPhone is Us/ing me

I was lucky enough to be given a new iPhone for an early Christmas present.  I have been drooling over an iPhone ever since they were released, but have put every expense known to man in priority to it, even a new wide angle camera lens (the Canon EF 28mm f1.8 USm wide angle lens [...]

The machine is us/ing us… well it’s using me for sure… or maybe I’m part of the machine… oh well.. just see for yourself

I almost forgot my NaBloPoMo post for today! Terrible. Anyways. In the interests of sharing the fundamentals and my desire to get to bed at a reasonable hour I’ve posted a link to Mike Wesch’s classic web 2.0 video “The Machine Is Us/ing Us” which runs for just under five minutes.  I’ve used Vimeo as [...]

“Some students are just not cut out for learning”

Earlier this year I was researching for an assignment on Generation Y and I came across Mike Wesch’s (US Professor of the year) work for the first time.  The assignment’s already been handed in and the semester finished but there’s still a quote from one of Wesch’s papers Anti Teaching: Confronting the crisis of significance that sticks [...]