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	<title>Luke Waltzer: Historian &#124; Educational Technologist</title>
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		<title>Blogs@Baruch Semester in Review: Part Four, Extra-Curricular Blogging</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Baruch College community has begun to see Blogs@Baruch not just as a blogging platform or substitute course management system, but also as powerful tool for meeting a wide range of self-publishing needs.
A variety of constituencies at the College have begun using the system for a range of internal and external communication. We have some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2009/12/17/blogsbaruch-semester-in-review-part-four-extra-curricular-blogging/</link>
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		<title>Blogs@Baruch Semester in Review: Part Three, Course Blogging</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Blogs@Baruch was used in approximately two dozen courses this semester, in disciplines that included Fine and Performing Arts, English, Sociology/Anthropology, Journalism, Library Information Systems, Communication, History, and Management.

WPMu continues to provide a flexible platform for our faculty members to structure and explore online communication and composition in their courses. Course blogs this semester have been [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2009/12/16/blogsbaruch-semester-in-review-part-three-course-blogging/</link>
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		<title>Blogs@Baruch Semester in Review: Part Two, FRO Blogging</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Approximately 1200 incoming first year students at Baruch participated in the first phase of our experimental integration of Blogs@Baruch into the Freshman Orientation Seminar. They wrote to blogs in approximately sixty individual sections, and their posts were syndicated on the FRO Motherblog.


As I noted a couple of months ago, we had severe constraints in launching [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2009/12/15/blogsbaruch-semester-in-review-part-two-fro-blogging/</link>
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		<title>Blogs@Baruch Semester in Review: Part One, Triumph and Tribulation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re winding down another eventful semester on Blogs@Baruch, and over the next few days I&#8217;d like to offer some reflections about where we&#8217;ve been and where we&#8217;re going. Our usership has tripled, and we&#8217;ve also expanded to serve a much broader range of constituencies at the college. This broadening and deepening has taught me much [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2009/12/14/blogsbaruch-semester-in-review-part-one-triumph-and-tribulation/</link>
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		<title>Just Launched: Lexington Universal Circuit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It pleases me to note the launch on Blogs@Baruch of Lexington Universal Circuit: A Journal of Economics and Politics at Baruch College.

The LUC was founded by Michael Pinto-Fernandes and Sarwat Joarder, two Baruch undergrads who have worked tirelessly to get their journal off the ground, recruiting writers and editors from Baruch and other campuses. They&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2009/11/30/just-launched-lexington-universal-circuit/</link>
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		<title>Lessig at Educause</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Below is Lawrence Lessig&#8217;s keynote at last week&#8217;s Educause 2009: &#8220;It&#8217;s About Time: Getting Our Values Around Copyright.&#8221;  This 60 minute presentation is well worth the time of anyone who&#8217;s interested how antiquated copyright laws are impacting ecologies of freedom, access, education, and science in the digital age.  After delineating how we got to where [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2009/11/11/lessig-at-educause/</link>
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		<title>Studio H</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Professor Vera Haller gave Tom and me a tour of the Baruch Journalism Department&#8217;s spanking new Studio H yesterday. We were blown away.  The room, made possible by a generous donation from the Harnisch Foundation (overseen by Baruch graduate William Harnisch, class of 1968, and his wife Ruth Ann) provides a space for our [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2009/10/08/studio-h/</link>
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		<title>Freshbloggers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This semester, we&#8217;re managing our largest lift on Blogs@Baruch yet.  In addition to an increasing variety of projects that I&#8217;ll blog about in the coming weeks, every Freshman Seminar at Baruch currently is blogging.  That&#8217;s roughly 60 sections, populated by over 1200 students.
Yowser.
Each Seminar is directed by a Peer Mentor, a talented upper [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2009/09/24/freshbloggers/</link>
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		<title>Empathy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re dealing with contractors, and Roby feels our frustration.  Unfortunately, he often pulls too hard, and needs assistance to release his hair.

Here are some other pics from the last few weeks.  

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		<link>http://dushtumay.sahawaltzer.org/2009/08/empathy/</link>
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		<title>Update From Dushtuville</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Roby is three and a half weeks old now, and we&#8217;re absolutely loving our new family.  We&#8217;ve had some homeowners&#8217; drama, which will divert some of the money that was going to go into college funds for the kids into a remodeled bathroom.  We may install a desk in the bathroom, though, to enable efficient [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dushtumay.sahawaltzer.org/2009/08/update-from-dushtuville/</link>
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		<title>Towards a Dak Nam</title>
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In childhood, many Bengalis take on two names that follow them through life. The bhalo nam, or &#8220;good name,&#8221; is the name that appears on legal documents.  The dak nam, or &#8220;nickname,&#8221; is used in more casual settings.
Roby&#8217;s sister, his mother, and his mother&#8217;s two sisters only have bhalo nams, perhaps because their names are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dushtumay.sahawaltzer.org/2009/07/towards-a-dak-nam/</link>
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		<title>Roby’s Big Screen Debut</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Share in the cuteness as Roby gets his hair done and burps for the camera while Didi looks on from the other room.
Warning: this may not be of interest to those unrelated or unimpressed by the simple feats of a 1 week-old. 
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		<link>http://dushtumay.sahawaltzer.org/2009/07/robys-big-screen-debut/</link>
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		<title>Beautifully Tired</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night was the first time since Kaya was an infant that I had that odd combination of utter exhaustion and existential satisfaction that many parents know well.  The brain goes to interesting places when it&#8217;s part of a body that&#8217;s fast asleep yet is itself tuned into the frequency of a nearby child [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dushtumay.sahawaltzer.org/2009/07/beautifuly-tired/</link>
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		<title>Roby’s Born Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, we welcomed Roby Saha Waltzer into our family.  He arrived at 8:07 pm, weighing in at a solid 7 lbs 12 oz, and stretching a full twenty inches.
The name &#8220;Roby&#8221; (pronounced &#8220;Row-bee&#8221;) is derived from the Bangla pronunciation of Ravi, which means &#8220;sun.&#8221;  We settled on it because of its compatibility with his didi&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dushtumay.sahawaltzer.org/2009/07/robys-born-day/</link>
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		<title>Posterous: Online Publishing Made Eas(ier)y</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Stephen Francoeur, one of Baruch’s many awesome librarians, turned me on to Posterous yesterday.  This is a service that allows you to publish to the web via a simple email to post@posterous.com; your posts will compile in your own space on posterous.com or can be configured to push out to your blog, Facebook or Twitter feeds, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2009/06/19/posterous-online-publishing-made-easiery/</link>
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		<title>They Got Madden on That Thing?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tonight we attended an orientation at the hospital where P will give birth to The BoyTM.  This was a pleasant, stress-less follow-up to the 5 hours we spent there last Friday when the contractions got regular and we kicked our half-planned wargame into action.  Beyond the two of us, the moving parts were flawless.  Kaya [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dushtumay.sahawaltzer.org/2009/06/they-got-madden-on-that-thing/</link>
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		<title>Oy…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Paula&#8217;s now at the stage on her pregnancy calendar where it&#8217;s advising us about buying car seats and picking out outfits in which to bring the baby home.  Meaning, the baby is just fattening up at this point.  She&#8217;ll be full term in a week and a half.
Excuse me, I have to go put the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dushtumay.sahawaltzer.org/2009/06/oy/</link>
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		<title>Go Bulldogs!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night we attended a mixer for new families at the elementary school where Kaya will begin her march from kindergarten to the Supreme Court this September (though it still remains to be seen whether she&#8217;ll be there on the bench or as the subject of some sort of appeal).
She&#8217;s now at an age that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dushtumay.sahawaltzer.org/2009/06/go-bulldogs/</link>
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		<title>The 2009 CUNY IT Conference: Managing Complexity</title>
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 photo credit: tantek

I was excited to get the Call For Papers for the CUNY IT Conference, scheduled for December 4.  This year&#8217;s theme will be &#8220;Information Technology/Instructional Technology in CUNY: Managing Complexity,&#8221; and the presentations will ask:


What works? How has technology not just changed but improved our instructional and administrative practices? What tests have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2009/06/09/the-2009-cuny-it-conference-managing-complexity/</link>
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		<title>The World Through the Eyes of a Three/Four Year-Old</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the past two years Kaya has gotten ahold of our digital camera on several occasions.  The photos below offer a glimpse into the world as seen by a precocious four year-old.  
At times her perspective is blurry, but she sure does get smiles&#8230;

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		<link>http://dushtumay.sahawaltzer.org/2009/06/the-world-through-the-eyes-of-a-four-year-old/</link>
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		<title>Because this Deserves its Own Post</title>
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		<link>http://dushtumay.sahawaltzer.org/2009/06/because-this-deserves-its-own-post/</link>
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		<title>Kaya + Kavi + Philly + Laurie = Big Fun</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thought we&#8217;d kick off &#8220;dushtumay.sahawaltzer.org 2.0&#8243; with some photos from our trip to Philly this past weekend.
Hope you all like the new site&#8230; We promise, it&#8217;ll be a lot more active in the coming months&#8230; bear with us as we work out some kinks.

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		<link>http://dushtumay.sahawaltzer.org/2009/06/kaya-kavi-philly-laurie-big-fun/</link>
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		<title>Towards the Next Stage of EdTech at CUNY…</title>
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The tag cloud above was generated by participants at CUNY WordCampEd, which took place last week at the Macaulay Honors College (click to enlarge).  Mikhail and I co-organized the event with Joe Ugoretz of Macaulay and Matt Gold of New York City Tech, and we were astounded that we had to close registration a week [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2009/05/29/towards-the-next-stage-of-edtech-at-cuny/</link>
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		<title>Jeff Jarvis’s Keynote from the 9th Annual Symposium</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s Jeff Jarvis&#8217;s keynote address and Q&#38;A session at the Schwartz Institute&#8217;s 9th Annual Symposium. He explains the argument that lay behind What Would Google Do?, explores the changing role of audience in the Web 2.0 world, and suggests some core components of establishing one&#8217;s professional presence on the web.
Keynote
Q&#38;A


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		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2009/05/26/jeff-jarviss-keynote-from-the-9th-annual-symposium/</link>
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		<title>David Birdsell’s Symposium Closing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In another of our series of videos from the 9th Annual Symposium, David Birdsell, Dean of Baruch&#8217;s School of Public Affairs, offers an incisive and cascading summation of the day&#8217;s conversation about &#8220;audience.&#8221;
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		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2009/05/18/david-birdsells-symposium-closing/</link>
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		<title>Gardner Teaches, Part 4</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In this final segment from Gardner Campbell&#8217;s workshop “Speaker, Listener, Network: The Concept of Audience in a Web 2.0 World” from the 9th Annual Symposium on Commumication and Communication-Intensive Instruction, Gardner and the participants look at the &#8220;Mother of the All Funk Chords,&#8221; a Youtube mashup by the Israeli musician Kutiman, they discuss the implications [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2009/05/09/gardner-teaches-part-4/</link>
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		<title>Gardner Teaches, Part 3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In this third segment from Gardner Campbell&#8217;s workshop “Speaker, Listener, Network: The Concept of Audience in a Web 2.0 World” from the 9th Annual Symposium on Commumication and Communication-Intensive Instruction, Gardner and the participants look at an advertisement from Kaplan University (featuring Uncle Phil) and explore the nature of authenticity and credibility in a Web [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2009/05/08/gardner-teaches-part-3/</link>
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		<title>Gardner Teaches, Part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In this second segment from Gardner Campbell&#8217;s workshop “Speaker, Listener, Network: The Concept of Audience in a Web 2.0 World” from the 9th Annual Symposium on Commumication and Communication-Intensive Instruction, Gardner and the participants explore the concept of speaker and audience in the Emily Dickinson poem &#8220;This is My Letter to the World,&#8221; unpack the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2009/05/07/gardner-teaches-part-2/</link>
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		<title>Gardner Teaches, Part I</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the first in a series of posts presenting video from our 9th Annual Symposium on Communication and Communication-Intensive Instruction.
We&#8217;re going to start off with four videos (we&#8217;ll publish them over the next four days) from Gardner Campbell&#8217;s workshop &#8220;Speaker, Listener, Network: The Concept of Audience in a Web 2.0 World.&#8221;
What I love about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2009/05/06/gardner-teaches-part-i/</link>
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		<title>How I Use Twitter (but this is just me)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not sure if it was @Oprah joining, #amazonfail, #pman (Moldova), or the tipping point on a meme, but the world is atwitter about Twitter.
I thought I&#8217;d share a few thoughts about how I use and perceive the service, which I joined about a year ago.
I&#8217;m not a Twitter evangelist; I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s for everyone. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2009/04/20/how-i-use-twitter-but-this-is-just-me/</link>
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		<title>Think Before You Snark</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We had a bit of an incident last week with a course that&#8217;s using Blogs@Baruch.  In this course, every student was to keep a blog, which was then republished in an aggregator blog so that every participant in the class could easily access and comment upon everything published by the other participants.
Last week the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2009/04/06/think-before-you-snark/</link>
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		<title>Wet Spaghetti</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At the Harman Writer-in-Residence lecture at Baruch College on March 24, George Packer, who became well known through his reporting for the New Yorker on the invasion of Iraq, spoke of turning his focus to this country. We&#8217;re living through a period of remarkable change, he said &#8212; political change, economic change, cultural change &#8212; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2009/03/26/wet-spaghetti/</link>
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		<title>GE Will Augment Your Reality</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just became aware of an unbelievably cool online interactive ad campaign by GE promoting its smart grid projects.  Check out the movie below, made through this site.
I don&#8217;t know enough to be able to comment intelligently on the extent to which GE is to be lauded or criticized for its smart energy initiatives. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2009/03/06/ge-will-augment-your-reality/</link>
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		<title>1000… 1001… 1002…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[All the way up to 1143, and counting.  That&#8217;s how many user accounts have been created over at Blogs@Baruch, and the numbers show how naturally Baruch College faculty, staff, and students have taken to academic blogging with WordpressMU since we launched the system in September.
The Ticker, the student newspaper at Baruch, just published Aaron Monteabaro&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2009/03/02/1000-1001-1002/</link>
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		<title>Facebook Owns You(r Original Content Produced On or Shared Through Their Tubes)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rest easy, Cacophoners; I just removed the &#8220;Share on Facebook&#8221; option from the &#8220;Share This&#8221; widget that appears beneath every post.
For those who don&#8217;t know, Facebook changed its Terms of Service last week, asserting a perpetual claim to use however it wishes certain content that you post on FB or that is shared on their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2009/02/17/facebook-owns-your-original-content-produced-on-or-shared-through-their-tubes/</link>
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		<title>Guest Post: Support for Oral Communication within the ESL Curriculum at Baruch College</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The following is a guest post from Professor Elisabeth Garies, of Baruch College&#8217;s Department of Communication Studies. She can be reached at Elisabeth.Gareis@baruch.cuny.edu.
Oral communication instruction is traditionally somewhat neglected in the ESL curricula and services of colleges. Many programs focus on reading/writing proficiency and give only nominal, if any attention to listening/speaking skills. The imbalance [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2009/02/02/guest-post-support-for-oral-communication-within-the-esl-curriculum-at-baruch-college/</link>
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		<title>What to Watch For: Super Bowl Edition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was surprised when I got home last night to hear on my answering machine a message from Christine, the &#8220;Loyalty Team Manager&#8221; at Autoland, where my wife and I purchased a car two years ago.  Christine wanted to let us know that she and her staff were in a &#8220;Yes We Can State of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2009/01/30/what-to-watch-for-super-bowl-edition/</link>
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		<title>On the Horizon…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m happy to note that Blogs@Baruch received a mention in the annual Horizon Report, a document produced by Educause, an international non-profit organization &#8220;whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology.&#8221;  Every year the report is read by information and instructional technology professionals at universities and colleges [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2009/01/22/on-the-horizon/</link>
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		<title>“Students today are…”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Branford Marsalis provocatively lays it down. Thoughts?
Via RateYourStudents.
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		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2009/01/08/students-today-are/</link>
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		<title>Holiday Habanera with the Muppets</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wishing our readers a very happy holidays and a splendid new year!
Hat tip to Hillary Miller, via Facebook.
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		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2008/12/23/holiday-habenara-with-the-muppets/</link>
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		<title>In Which We Provide the Butt for Your Jokes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to The Gothamist, the flyer on the right was scattered around the campus of New York University last week.
The flyer announced NYU&#8217;s &#8220;In and Of the City Financial Aid Plan,&#8221; in which students who were unable to fork out 50k/year were told their families could save more than $43k annually if they instead attended [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2008/12/08/in-which-we-provide-the-butt-for-your-jokes/</link>
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		<title>An Experiment in Digital Storytelling</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was recently inspired, no surprise, by a post on Jim Groom&#8217;s Bavatuesdays: &#8220;A Childhood Without Proof.&#8221; This was about as close to schmaltz as the right Rev. Groom comes, and being a sap myself, I appreciated both the content and the tone.
Jim, the 6th of 7th children, was aware of only one photograph of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2008/12/02/an-experiment-in-digital-storytelling/</link>
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		<title>Now You Too Can Be An Instructional Technologist!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I get to tell Jewish jokes because I&#8217;m Jewish.  I get to tell snob jokes because I&#8217;m a historian.  I also get to tell instructional technologist jokes because I&#8217;m the Project Manager for Digital Learning (aka, &#8220;Blog Guy&#8221;) at the Bernard L. Schwartz Communication Institute.
So, I&#8217;ll let out a little secret: here&#8217;s where we get [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2008/12/01/now-you-too-can-be-an-instructional-technologist/</link>
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		<title>Thinking Behind a Redesign</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently implemented a new design for the homepage for our installation of WordPress MultiUser&#8211; Blogs@Baruch.

I tried to accomplish a few things with this redesign.  Mostly, I wanted to update the look of the site&#8230; the previous version was a bit clunky, a bit 2003 1999, and I didn&#8217;t feel it was popping.  As I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2008/11/13/thinking-behind-a-redesign/</link>
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		<title>Post Election Thoughts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As we all recover from the remarkable events of the past hours, days, and weeks, and begin to look forward at what a President Barack Hussein Obama might mean for the United States and the world, I find the appropriate tone elusive.  My faith in Obama as a leader is buoyed by the following: amidst [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2008/11/05/post-election-thoughts/</link>
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		<title>reCAPTCHA: The Essence of a Distributed Knowledge Network</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve all come across a CAPTCHA, a challenge response test that web sites give viewers who are trying to register for an account, leave a comment, or perform some other task that might be vulnerable to spammers or bots.  They are useful because they can differentiate human from machine (Completely Automated Turing Test to Tell [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2008/10/22/recaptcha-the-essence-of-a-distributed-knowledge-network/</link>
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		<title>Communication and the Campaign</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If Barack Obama is elected President on November 4th, it will be in large part because of the sophisticated way his campaign has communicated with the American public.
I was in Michigan this past weekend, and drove past the &#8220;North Oakland County Victory Office&#8221; of the McCain Campaign, just west of Pontiac, twenty miles north of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2008/10/06/communication-and-the-campaign/</link>
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		<title>But, professssssor!!!!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dana McCourt, over at Edge of the American West, puts today&#8217;s campaign shenanigans into a context that any college teacher would understand:



to: john.mccain@maverickymaverick.gov
from: dmccourt@youhavegottobekiddingme.edu [Sent On Behalf Of American Public]
subject: extension?
Dear John,
While I sympathize with the demands of balancing both legislative and campaign issues, I cannot, in accord with historical policy, grant your request for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2008/09/24/but-professssssor/</link>
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		<title>The Baruch College Teaching Blog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d like to call your attention to a new blog we&#8217;re supporting here at Baruch College: The Baruch College Teaching Blog.
Several faculty have agreed to post to the blog regularly, and to lead an ongoing conversation about teaching at Baruch College.  Surprisingly, there are very few blogs like this, which provide the opportunity for members [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2008/09/22/baruch-college-teaching-blog/</link>
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		<title>Presidential Tweets?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not really a big fan of the whole &#8220;John McCain is so old he can&#8217;t use a computer&#8221; line the Obama camp rolled out today.  I think there are stronger, more necessary and relevant attacks that Obama should launch.
That said, the activity level on the two candidates&#8217; Twitter pages does seem to back up [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2008/09/12/presidential-tweets/</link>
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		<title>Triumphing Over Your “Little Hater”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My favorite hip-hop vlogger Jay Smooth has eloquently described those nagging voices that reside inside the heads of people who do creative work as  &#8220;little haters.&#8221;

He even wrote a song about his:

When I’m writing, my &#8220;little hater&#8221; tells me I need to find a fifth or a sixth corroborating piece of evidence before I can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2008/09/10/triumphing-over-your-little-hater/</link>
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		<title>Tsk tsk…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Further proof as this election season revs up that there&#8217;s more than the future of humanity at stake this November.

Writing teachers everywhere: this is not change you can believe in.
(kudos to TPM)
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		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2008/08/29/tsk-tsk/</link>
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		<title>Status Anxiety</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yeah, I&#8217;m on the Facebook.  I resisted for some time, but being able to play Scrabble (or, more accurately, &#8220;Scrabulous&#8221;) with friends ultimately got me.  I&#8217;ve developed a bond with the husband of a college friend of my sister-in-law, forged initially through comments on the baby blogosphere, but secured ultimately through online word games played [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2008/07/24/status-anxiety/</link>
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		<title>Is This Effective Communication?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ My feeling is that this would make a fine satirical cartoon inside the New Yorker.  But to give it the cover?  Not so sure about that.
Understandably, the Obamas ain&#8217;t pleased, finding it tasteless and degrading.  The fear is that this image, widely distributed, may give credence to the misinformation going around about the couple.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2008/07/14/is-this-effective-communication/</link>
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		<title>Welcome, Akenna!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are so happy to welcome Akenna William Nikundiwe to our extended family.Â  We already share our anniversary with one cousin; we&#8217;re glad to share it with another.
Here he is, with the other two Nikundiwe boys:

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		<link>http://dushtumay.sahawaltzer.org/2008/07/welcome-akenna/</link>
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		<title>Caught in a Lie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I promise, a big photo dump is forthcoming, but I had to get this story out while I remembered it.
Kaya has been venturing into new levels and style of argument recently, testing what she can get past her parents and what she can&#8217;t.Â  But, frankly, she&#8217;s not that good at it yet.Â  I&#8217;m sure by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dushtumay.sahawaltzer.org/2008/07/caught-in-a-lie/</link>
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		<title>Mommy and Daddy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Inspired by the Kavi-eye view that rules over at her cousin&#8217;s place, we thought we&#8217;d let Kaya fool around with the camera and offer up a blog post of her own.
About these pictures, Kaya said &#8220;I took em at Grandma&#8217;s house, and I like them.  The first one is a kind of medium face, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dushtumay.sahawaltzer.org/2008/06/mommy-and-daddy/</link>
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		<title>How to Tell A Story</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Peter O&#8217;Toole, on Fresh Air, telling Terry Gross about shooting the dangerous scene pictured above for  Lawrence of Arabia.

I love how O&#8217;Toole takes her question and turns it into a narrative, reveling in the details, painting a picture, and ending with a bang.  As is often the case, Gross asks a follow-up question [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2008/06/27/how-to-tell-a-story/</link>
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		<title>Navigating the Messages at the Ballpark</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A while ago, I made my first trip to Comerica Park, the stadium where my beloved Detroit Tigers play their home games.  I say &#8220;play their home games&#8221; because to me, Tiger Stadium will always be their true home, even if in the future it&#8217;s left only partially standing. I grew up about an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2008/06/19/navigating-a-ballpark/</link>
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		<title>On Edupunk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cacophony&#8217;s good friend Jim Groom (right) has recently coined a term that has the edublogosphere all atwitter: edupunk.  It probably runs counter to the meaning behind the word to note, impressed, that The Chronicle of Higher Education&#8217;s blog, &#8220;Wired Campus,&#8221; picked up Jim&#8217;s phrase.  Punks probably don&#8217;t care much what the Chronicle&#8217;s got [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2008/06/06/on-edupunk/</link>
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		<title>Memorial Day in Langhorne…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We spent Memorial Day in Langhorne, PA, grilling and chillin with the cousins and honored guests from Michigan and Brooklyn.Â  Here are some highlights:

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		<link>http://dushtumay.sahawaltzer.org/2008/05/memorial-day-in-langhorne/</link>
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		<title>Wicked Awesome…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This past weekend, we trudged up 95 for our traditional May birthday celebration with the Nikundiwes.Â  There was much cake, some awkward kayaking, and a lot of talk about the coming addition to the family (the Niks, not us, but, we&#8217;re all family).
Here are some pics:
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		<link>http://dushtumay.sahawaltzer.org/2008/05/wicked-awesome/</link>
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		<title>We love to Party at the Y-M-C-A</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We had a great time celebrating Kaya&#8217;s birthday at the local Y yesterday.Â  Here are some highlights:
Guess who&#8217;s the line leader?

Meghan and Kaya

Megan, Kaya, and Meghan

Bella: &#8220;Who ARE these kids playing with Kaya?&#8221;

The Bean:


Craft time!

Daddy got three seconds with the Bday girl!

There were fights over this swing, and hurt feelings.

Yaz and Bella

Let them eat cake.

&#8220;Buckets&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dushtumay.sahawaltzer.org/2008/05/we-love-to-party-at-the-y-m-c-a/</link>
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		<title>Flogos: Logo Clouds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kaya was certain when riding in the car the other day that she saw a cloud shaped like an elephant.Â  Soon, she&#8217;ll see floating logos en-route to Giants Stadium, and come running from the backyard asking for new Nikes or to go to McDonald&#8217;s. But what she sees won&#8217;t be the product of her fertile [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dushtumay.sahawaltzer.org/2008/05/flogos-logo-shaped-clouds/</link>
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		<title>Years…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Four.

Three.

Two.

One.

Zero.

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		<link>http://dushtumay.sahawaltzer.org/?p=188</link>
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		<title>A New Generation of “Native Tongues”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Parenthood is undeniably a blessing.  Yet, if I were to speak honestly, I&#8217;d note that there are certain drawbacks, not the least of which is ceding control over the soundtrack to your life.  My sweet soon-to-be four year old doesn&#8217;t want to listen to many of my tunes.  I&#8217;m fortunate that her choices are usually [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2008/04/16/a-new-generation-of-native-tongues/</link>
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		<title>Blog Your Discipline</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How do academic blogs reflect the disciplines of their authors?
I&#8217;ve become interested in this question while following our Anthropology/Sociology working group, and also through my own surfing.  A relatively new blog&#8211;The Edge of the American West&#8211;run by historians Eric Rauchway and Ari Kelman from U.C. Davis, has quickly become one of the better U.S. history [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2008/04/03/blog-your-discipline/</link>
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		<title>Blogging at Baruch this Semester</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Baruch faculty and students are making some unique and innovative contributions to the educational blogosphere this semester.  Our goal in supporting course-based usage of weblogs over the past year has been to produce various models and prototypes that can be duplicated and built upon as the technology becomes more widely deployed throughout Baruch.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2008/03/10/blogging-at-baruch-this-semester/</link>
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		<title>When Professors Strike Back…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ahhh&#8230; employing the tools of Web 2.0 to escalate and make visible to the world the battles we go through in the classroom over the course of a semester.  At least, that&#8217;s the one part of this story I feel comfortable commenting upon.  I will say that the faculty member featured in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2008/02/21/when-professors-strike-back/</link>
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		<title>Important Questions from the CUNY IT Conference</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I broke away from productive dissertating last Friday to attend a panel on innovating with open source at the 2007 CUNY IT Conference featuring our fearless leader, Mikhail Gershovich, City Tech English Professor Matt Gold, and University of Mary Washington Instructional Technologist and frequent cac.ophony reference, Reverend Jim Groom.  Each brought his &#8220;A&#8221; game.
Mikhail [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2007/12/02/important-questions-from-the-cuny-it-conference/</link>
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		<title>PowerPointin’ Ain’t Easy…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been thinking about David&#8217;s post a while back discussing strategies for effective PowerPointing.  In writing instruction, one of the best ways to get students to begin writing with confidence is to have them &#8220;write what they know.&#8221;  What they know is less important than that they develop the ability to explore and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2007/11/16/powerpointin-aint-easy/</link>
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		<title>Dr. What?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My Jamaican sister-in-law shared this with me.  The Real McCoy, a British sketch-comedy show that aired on BBC in the early 1990s, offers up one example of cross-cultural interpenetration&#8230; Dr. Who translated into Jamaican.
How about using this as a model for an assignment on mash-ups, taking advantage of Web 2.0 to explore processes of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2007/10/23/dr-what/</link>
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		<title>An Idea for a Course Blog or, Perhaps, A Blog Course</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of my favorite methods of procrastination is contemplating what I&#8217;ll do whenever the project that I&#8217;m not working on at the moment is complete. Luckily, some of my work at the Institute has involved trying to anticipate where instructional technology will go in coming semesters, and what kinds of demands for support this will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2007/10/17/an-idea-for-a-course-blog-or-perhaps-a-blog-course/</link>
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		<title>Writing as Process/Writing as Product</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The primary innovation that makes the expanding use of instructional technology in the classroom so exciting, for me, is that it empowers students to disseminate their own work.  Such empowerment can have unintended consequences, and creates new challenges for us as teachers.   One faculty member with whom I discussed blogging said &#8220;I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2007/10/01/writing-as-processwriting-as-product/</link>
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		<title>On Assessment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As Mikhail noted at the first BLSCI sandwich and cookie-fest, we&#8217;re being encouraged to develop new assessments of our work.  I thought it would be good to try to get a discussion going here on Cacophony where we could share our thoughts about assessment.
At the CUNY Writing Fellows Orientation, I attended a breakout session [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2007/09/12/on-assessment/</link>
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		<title>“The Most Personal Means of Communication”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Following is a short clip from an interview Terry Gross did with Bill Moyers on Fresh Air last week in which the journalist talks about why he feels letters are the best way to communicate.  His eloquent comments echo some of the points made up to and around the Symposium, and explains why getting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2007/05/08/the-most-personal-means-of-communication/</link>
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		<title>No More Laptops!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times offers today a story about school districts that are reversing earlier decisions to make laptops available to all of their students for little or no money.   Laptops at places like Liverpool High School, near Syracuse, have been causing more problems than they&#8217;ve been solving.   They break down [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2007/05/04/no-more-laptops/</link>
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		<title>The Symposium</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d like to start a space here to discuss last week&#8217;s Symposium on Communication and Communication-Intensive Instruction where, hopefully, we can aggregate some feedback and thoughts for the staff which will help them plan next year&#8217;s event.
This was my first symposium, and I had a fine time.  It&#8217;s nice to break up the monotony [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2007/05/01/the-symposium/</link>
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		<title>Syncretism and Web 2.0</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Next academic year, we hope to help students produce more broadly through the Web, particularly via videos and audio podcasts.  The Web is replete with &#8220;one-world&#8221; examples of cultural syncretism, and the word &#8220;mashup&#8221; is itself a product of Web 2.0.  Here&#8217;s an example I stumbled upon while surfing last night.  This [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2007/04/18/syncretism-and-web-20/</link>
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		<title>Just in time…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As if anticipating our symposium, Nick Paumgarten writes on &#8220;The Elements of E-Style,&#8221; in this week&#8217;s New Yorker.  He interviews David Shipley and Will Schwalbe, the authors of a modern day Strunk and White: Send: The Essential Guide To Email for Office and Home.  This might be good for us all to check [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2007/04/11/just-in-time/</link>
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		<title>New Rules?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Times reports today on a movement to nurture civility in the blogosphere with a &#8220;blogger code of conduct.&#8221;  You can follow the conversation, led by Tim O&#8217;Reilly (who:&#8221;Web 2.0&#8243; as Bernard Baruch:&#8221;Cold War&#8221;) and Jimmy Wales (who founded Wikipedia).
I like this.  Discursive chaos is great and all, but ultimately blogs are more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2007/04/09/new-rules/</link>
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		<title>Learning from the Blogosphere</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve repeatedly waxed rhapsodic here about the potential of Web 2.0 to change the way we think, learn, and engage the world.  A lot of this hope evolves out of the potential it offers for collective thinking and learning.  An example of such potential realized is at the center of the US Attorneys [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2007/03/28/learning-from-the-blogosphere/</link>
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		<title>Who’s Mad?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the best time of the year.  Spring is in the air, and so is madness.  March Madness, that is.
I&#8217;m not embarrassed to say that I am a college basketball fanatic, though many in the academy (and my family) probably think I should be more than ashamed.  For hoops nuts like [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2007/03/13/whos-mad/</link>
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		<title>Adolescents: Canaries in the Social Coal Mine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to psychologist Jean Twenge of San Diego State University, the &#8220;self-esteem movement&#8221; and new media are a combination that threatens to undermine the American social fabric. Twenge is the lead author of Generation Me: Why Today&#8217;s Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled&#8211;and More Miserable Than Ever Before, a study that has gotten a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2007/03/01/adolescents-canaries-in-the-social-goldmine/</link>
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		<title>Where We’ve Been, and Where Are We Going?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I saw a couple of interesting videos on YouTube in the past day.  The first&#8211;&#8221;Web 2.0 &#8230; The Machine is Us/ing Us&#8221;&#8211;was produced by Prof. Michael Wesch and the Digital Ethnography working group he leads at Kansas State.  This video tells the history of how we got to Web 2.0, and what it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2007/02/14/where-weve-been-and-where-are-we-going/</link>
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		<title>Blogging the CUNY IT Conference</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The CUNY IT Conference has grown significantly since its inception five years ago, from a few hundred attendees at the first conference to well over a thousand this past Friday.  Seemingly, every IT person from within CUNY attended, lol (did you ever notice that when “lol” is used, most often nothing funny has preceded [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2006/12/05/blogging-the-cuny-it-conference/</link>
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		<title>The CUNY IT Conference: The CUNY Online Baccalaureate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The first panel was a presentation of the work of the CUNY Online Baccalaureate Program.  This was likely the most highly attended session at the conference, and also the most densely populated panel (I believe there were thirty-seven presenters limited to forty-five seconds each… or at least it seemed that way).  The speed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2006/12/05/the-cuny-online-baccalaureate/</link>
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		<title>The CUNY IT Conference: The Keynote Address</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The keynote at the CUNY IT Conference was an enjoyable presentation from Chuck Dziuban, the Principal Investigator of the Distributed Learning Impact Evaluation and Professor of Educational Foundations at the University of Central Florida.  Dziuban theorizes the emergence of new teaching technologies, and has a boatload of data to back up his conclusions.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2006/12/05/keynote-address/</link>
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		<title>The CUNY IT Conference: Making Multimedia History</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Chuck Dziuban did a fine job, but as theory values the abstract over the concrete, his talk provoked thought more than it suggested actual, real uses of technology in the classroom.  The second panel session I attended was a group of CUNY historians who designed online teaching modules as part of the “Investigating US [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2006/12/05/making-multimedia-history/</link>
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		<title>The CUNY IT Conference: Notes Towards an Open (Source) University</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Finally, and fittingly, the last session I attended featured Famed Friend of the Institute James Groom, who offered his “Notes Towards an Open (Source) University.”  Prof. Groom’s views have been well-represented on this blog, and though I urged him to rename his talk “Waging War on the Proprietary-Software University,” his diplomatic disposition clung to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2006/12/05/notes-towards-an-open-source-university/</link>
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		<title>The Seminar on Instructional Technology:  Blogging Across the Curriculum Minutes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to Tom Harbison, the hardest working man in show business, or, at least, CUNY, we have minutes from our seminar on Wendesday.  I&#8217;ve also included the agenda and the links that we shared with attendees.  
Minutes from Seminar on Instructional Technology
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		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2006/11/03/the-seminar-on-instructional-technology-blogging-across-the-curriculum-minutes/</link>
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		<title>The Aesthetics of the Virtual Learning Space</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot recently about the aesthetics of the virtual space, and how it can impact the amounts and types of traffic to an online learning tool.  What got me thinking about this was my attempt to answer the question of how weblogs used as instructional tools were different than &#8220;learning management [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2006/11/02/the-aesthetics-of-the-virtual-learning-space/</link>
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		<title>Interesting MacArthur Foundation Initiative…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[$50 million for research on Digitial Media and Learning.  There are some interesting pieces under Projects>MacSeries Volumes, and also at the new &#8220;Spotlight&#8221; blog.
http://www.digitallearning.macfound.org
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		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2006/10/27/interesting-macarthur-foundation-initiative/</link>
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		<title>The Seminar on Instructional Technology:  Blogging Across the Curriculum</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Bernard L. Schwartz Communication Institute and BCTC present
The Seminar on Instructional Technology:  Blogging Across the Curriculum
Wednesday, November 1, 2006
12:30 pm-2pm, VC 14-285
This roundtable discussion will explore the implications of new instructional media including weblogs and wikis for teaching and learning. Participants will consider ways in which these new media have been incorporated in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2006/10/24/the-seminar-on-instructional-technology-blogging-across-the-curriculum/</link>
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		<title>Technology and the Public/Private Divide</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the Metro section of the October 10, 2006 New York Times, an article appeared about a police investigation into the case of a Brooklyn man named Michael Sandy, who was hit by a car after two men pushed him onto the Belt Parkway near Sheepshead Bay.  The article featured a screenshot of Mr. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2006/10/12/technology-and-the-publicprivate-divide/</link>
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		<title>The BLSCI’s Blogging Series</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Do universities lead, or do they follow?  Well, clearly, the answer is “both.”  When it comes to weblogs, universities have been gradually climbing on the bandwagon over the past few years.  By now, blogging is no longer “hot,” in the way that things “here to stay” cool down as they become ingrained [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cac.ophony.org/2006/09/15/the-blsci%e2%80%99s-blogging-series/</link>
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