http://blog.lib.umn.edu/bwahlstr/httpbloglibumnedubwahlstr/ Thinking About Technology & Society en-us 2006-08-17T14:41:32-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/bwahlstr/httpbloglibumnedubwahlstr/050783.html The Detroit Free Press wrote an article able nanatechnology--technology for grandparents or older adults or the elderly. As a new grandmother, I read this with interest, expecting to find the assorted junk about keeping pictures of your grandkids on the... Technology and society bwahlstr 2006-08-17T14:41:32-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/bwahlstr/httpbloglibumnedubwahlstr/047591.html Today I read in the paper that software companies have found a niche in which to market software to women. Seems that women make up the majority of people who scrapbook (verb, not noun) and that women have less time... Technology and society bwahlstr 2006-06-15T13:30:42-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/bwahlstr/httpbloglibumnedubwahlstr/046967.html I like sudoku puzzles because I can always solve them, not so always with crossword puzzles that sometimes send me off to the dictionary to locate the Armenian festival held in the fall of the year or something I don't... Playing with Technology bwahlstr 2006-06-01T11:07:42-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/bwahlstr/httpbloglibumnedubwahlstr/046277.html May 4, 2006 NYT had an article called "I Hear Ringing and There's No One There. I Wonder Why." Seems that people think they hear their cellphones when they aren't ringing. This isn't the case of mistaken identity when the... Technology and society bwahlstr 2006-05-18T09:56:13-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/bwahlstr/httpbloglibumnedubwahlstr/045391.html The Chronicle of Higher Education had two information technology briefs back to back that reflect the difficulty of being in a liminal period between information paradigms. During medieval times and before, information was in the hands of a very small... bwahlstr 2006-05-04T09:20:19-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/bwahlstr/httpbloglibumnedubwahlstr/045030.html Do you play poker online? If you don't then log into a game at a .net site like fulltiltpoker.net. The net versions (instead of the .com versions) aren't gambling sites, so you don't have to disclose financial information to look... Technology and society bwahlstr 2006-05-01T20:19:47-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/bwahlstr/httpbloglibumnedubwahlstr/044471.html Podcasts of lectures to "enhance mobile access to content"? Books on tape I can imagine, but most lecturers, myself included should be prevented from putting lectures into the ears of student while they drive. Snore. But I do think podcasts... Learning on the Go bwahlstr 2006-04-27T10:55:18-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/bwahlstr/httpbloglibumnedubwahlstr/044360.html If you haven't experienced viral video yet, you might want to explore by beginning with the Wikipedia entry and by visiting a few of the sites mentioned. The Star Wars kid viral video has already spawned a serious lawsuit. Friends... Technology and society bwahlstr 2006-04-26T09:09:57-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/bwahlstr/httpbloglibumnedubwahlstr/044235.html The other day, the Chronicle of Higher Education ran the following article: "HUNDREDS OF WORRIED ALUMNI, employees, and students flooded the telephone lines at the University of Texas at Austin on Monday, after officials announced that someone had illegally retrieved... Technology and society bwahlstr 2006-04-25T09:15:33-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/bwahlstr/httpbloglibumnedubwahlstr/043758.html The abstract below is from Inside Higher Education: ADDING NETIQUETTE TO THE SYLLABUS "In response to greater access to technology and growing expectations of students, some faculty have begun setting out explicit guidelines in their syllabi regarding how and when... Teaching and Technology bwahlstr 2006-04-20T09:11:40-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/bwahlstr/httpbloglibumnedubwahlstr/043686.html At the end of March, the New York Times had an article about African-Americans and their increased use of the Internet. According to a Pew survey, 74% of whites go online, 61 % of African-Americans do, and 80% of English-speaking... Technology and society bwahlstr 2006-04-19T12:29:28-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/bwahlstr/httpbloglibumnedubwahlstr/020193.html Today's Chronicle of Higher Education had the following comments: "TOO MUCH INFORMATION E-mail, cellphones, and the Internet degrade academic labor because they eat up time better spent in contemplation and reflection, argue some scholars." I wonder about this claim. Much... Technology and society bwahlstr 2005-04-21T09:40:55-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/bwahlstr/httpbloglibumnedubwahlstr/005221.html The other day I was watching what my son was playing online--Runescape. He's 12 and he was playing with 48,000 other people. They were from all over and playing in an imaginary world. I play in online games too sometimes... Technology and society bwahlstr 2004-09-11T22:22:24-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/bwahlstr/httpbloglibumnedubwahlstr/004943.html I'm working from the University of Minnesota Crookston today, and when I sat down in the lab to answer my email, I was astonished at the number of instant messages that announced themselves on the public computer I was using.... Learning on the Go bwahlstr 2004-09-07T12:06:22-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/bwahlstr/httpbloglibumnedubwahlstr/003447.html The Chronicle of Higher Education conducted an investigation recently showing that the student-loan industry and for-profit colleges have contributed $1-million to the members of a Congressional committee that is considering a bill to renew the Higher Education Act. What do... Technology and society bwahlstr 2004-07-26T08:38:39-06:00