In brief:
* Amanda Palmer: Update #7: COUNTDOWN WEBCAST PARTY IN BROOKLYN, hold the DATE! and ALL ABOUT “THE BED SONG” BOOK. [Kickstarter]
EVERYBODY (YES, EVERYBODY) save the DATE!!! next Thursday night NEW YORK TIME (may 31st), in the final hours of the kickstarter, at about 7pm-midnight, in BROOKLYN (near gowanus), we are throwing the biggest kickstarter countdown street party webcast EVER KNOWN TO MAN!!
* If students are digital natives why don’t they like our e-learning? (2012-May-26) [The corridor of uncertainty]
… However the report ends with some very relevant thoughts. Maybe students’ lukewarm attitude to e-learning is because the e-learning on offer is simply not very compelling or well designed? What if the e-learning of today is simply a pale electronic version of traditional teaching and therefore is always compared to the “real thing.” Maybe we haven’t actually changed anything, we’ve just put the classroom on the net without much thought of why we might want to do that. …
* Digital Citizenship: www.digitalcitizenship.nsw.edu.au [DER NSW]
* 40 Of The Most Powerful Photographs Ever Taken (2012-May-30)
via @stokely
* The impact of social media on photography (2012-May-14) [mediaround]
Some reading/listening:
* ADVENTURES OF PHILIP MARLOWE (Old Time Radio Researchers Group)
Elements of mystery have always been represented in literature, but the detective story didn’t arrive on the scene until the mid 1800′s. Edgar Allan Poe’s The Murders in the Rue Morgue, published in 1841, was the first. The Murder’s main character, C. Auguste Dupin, was a brilliant detective who relied on superior deductive powers to solve the crime. He and his unnamed narrator companion solved this and two other mysteries…
Adventures of Philip Marlowe – Single Episodes [archive.org]
Something from Bandcamp:
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