Tag Archives: TC

Remember that Daedalus was an Architect

By escrubb | Published: 24.10.2010
This is a reflection on Leander and McKim’s “Tracing the Everyday ‘Sitings’ of Adolescents on the Internet: a strategic adaptation of ethnography across online and offline spaces”. You can find the article here. I liked the article, although their description of methodologies was, as they put it, “imaginative”, or as I put it, “vague, but [...]
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Reasonable Persuasion: teachers, poets, liars, and language

By escrubb | Published: 13.07.2010
The following is an essay written for a class at Teachers College, with Robbie McClintock. The online residence of the class is here. It’s a great reading list. If you’d like to read this paper as it’s ‘meant’ to be read, please download the pdf. If you’d prefer to just read it as HTML, well [...]
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#metropolis, #benjamin, #daedalus, #goebbels

By escrubb | Published: 31.03.2010
(If you are reading this through a feed, such as in the Columbia EdBlog site, you may not have full video functionality. I recommend viewing at the home site, perelandran.org/wordpress. Also, if you are planning on reading the entire essay, you may wish to begin a download of the main video now, as it is [...]
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#google, #scaffolding, #standards, #metaphors, #branding

By escrubb | Published: 10.02.2010
Nice picture, huh? Nothing ominous…I’d like to start thinking more about the Google question. I know, obviously, that I’m not the first to think about this. How can you not consider it? But anyway, what is the Google question? It goes directly to the motto “Don’t Be Evil”. Is Google evil? However, evil is kind [...]
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Homer and Dewey

By escrubb | Published: 08.02.2010
I am studying in both 4010 and 4078 (Hist of Tech&Ed, with R. McClintock), so I guess it’s my responsibility to point out some nice connections between this week’s readings in the two classes. In 4010, obviously, we are reading Dewey’s ‘The public and its problems’, where he stresses a posteriori approach to the analysis [...]
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Post 2012…

By escrubb | Published: 01.02.2010
When I was 7, I was taken into a special class where we were asked to make predictions about 2040. The only thing I remember is that I thought that there would be flying cars and moving sidewalks. That was also the first year that I interacted with the green terminal of a computer. I [...]
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munyurangabo

By escrubb | Published: 29.01.2010
Since we’ve been reading the Appadurai, I thought I’d mention a film. My friend is a (very good) film director, and he made a film that, well I don’t want to say is ‘about’, but takes place in, Rwanda, post-genocide. It’s name is Munyurangabo. I worked with this director on another film, named ‘Lucky Life’. [...]
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A First Incursion into Typographical Fixity, or Academic Programmatic Architectural Style

By escrubb | Published: 16.12.2009
Where Oil comes from This blog post was created on several computers, including an old refurbished Compaq running Ubuntu Linux, a new netbook from the ZaReason company running Debian Linux, both with the Ratpoison window manager (which kills the rat--http://www.nongnu.org/ratpoison/), a computer in the IDesign Lab using OS X, and printed in parts at various [...]
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A different composition

By admin | Published: 10.11.2009
My first reaction to the Eisenstein is just being overwhelmed. Not by obfuscation though. Very clear writing and all, there’s just so much to talk about. (edit–wrote the above last week. Wrote the below just now.) So here’s what I have. I hope someone considers it ‘crafted’. The following link is to a cmap, created [...]
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A Reply to Ruthie

By escrubb | Published: 23.09.2009
(The following is a post that came from a reply to a comment by Ruthie. I felt that it was too long to stay in the comment area. I think that I felt like it became less of a reply and more of a speech, and I didn’t want Ruthie to think that I was [...]
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