{"id":228,"date":"2008-08-28T18:38:08","date_gmt":"2008-08-28T18:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ivyrun.com\/wordpress\/2008\/08\/28\/does-the-chalkboard-still-have-a-role-to-play\/"},"modified":"2008-08-28T18:38:08","modified_gmt":"2008-08-28T18:38:08","slug":"does-the-chalkboard-still-have-a-role-to-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=228","title":{"rendered":"Does the Chalkboard Still Have a Role to Play?"},"content":{"rendered":"

As part of a course I am taking this semester, I’m exploring the Horizon Project<\/a>, mostly focusing on their process for coming up with their technologies.\u00a0 I’ve been having lots of fun exploring the wiki<\/a>, checking out some of the examples they provide for each of their technologies.\u00a0 One example of collaboration webs–a technology that will be mainstream in a year or less–is a very cool use of Pageflakes<\/a> by the Writing Program at the University of Southern California.\u00a0 It’s an interesting mix of old and new.\u00a0 The content is old: the “topoi” are lenses for viewing an issue and they originated with Aristotle<\/a>.\u00a0 The pageflakes site is very new and incorporates video, RSS, text and images.\u00a0 It would be a useful site for beginning writers outside USC.<\/p>\n

I watched the classroom discussion video related to the topoi and laughed out loud as the camera panned outward:<\/p>\n

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It’s a chalkboard! A good, old-fashioned chalkboard! The writing prompt scribbled on the chalkboard is about comparing the coverage of news stories through the web and the mainstream media. But it’s scribbled on a chalkboard.\u00a0 I guess it’s a good lesson about using the technology that is available but it just struck me as an odd juxtaposition to the very 21st century technology being used to display the video. Here I sit in Virginia watching a video of a USC professor pointing to a chalkboard.\u00a0 Really a sign of the times in which we live where old and new exist side by side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As part of a course I am taking this semester, I’m exploring the Horizon Project, mostly focusing on their process for coming up with their technologies.\u00a0 I’ve been having lots of fun exploring the wiki, checking out some of the examples they provide for each of their technologies.\u00a0 One example of collaboration webs–a technology that … Continue reading Does the Chalkboard Still Have a Role to Play?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,44,42],"tags":[354,114,361,359],"class_list":["post-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-technology","category-writing","tag-education","tag-horizonreport","tag-technology","tag-writing"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4X3L0-3G","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}