Digital Ethnography at Kansas State University

Structuring a class/course to engage and digitally mediate students and content.

Immigrant students love math/science PhDs, but now they're going home!

"speaker at the counter-rally to the EDL demo in Luton, added: "The attack on multiculturalism surrenders to the far-right ideology that moderate and fundamentalist ideas cannot be distinguished from each other, and actually undermines respect and co-operation between peoples of different faith. "The phrase 'muscular liberalism' in particular sadly endorses the climate of threat, fear and violence which is present on the streets of Luton today." In a joint statement, Luton council and Bedfordshire police said a "tiny handful" of people from various backgrounds"

Reading more into this it seems as though identifying/having an identity with a nation rather than cultural subgroups within a nation is being attacked...

An interesting debate about gaming's impact on kids today.

What a novel concept! How long will it last?

changing education paradigms, animated

Google has joined a handful of museums to create an awesome opportunity to go to a museum without ever leaving home! I can see this being so helpful in every level of schools especially since art funding is being cut in so many schools.

One way to present storytelling through a digital medium... Possible influence/inspiration for the VOST project?

My friend Tyler makes the observation that we think of the U.S. as a more developed country because of our standardized education system. He affirms that the ability and desire to ask questions is a mark of true learning. "Answering multiple choice questions does not show how much one has been learning; learning to ask multiple questions does!" Then he suggests a correlation between being passionate about a subject and the occurrence of true learning.

I thought this was an interesting topic. Also its amazing how media has changed news updates.

I usually only hear negative things about how media effects humans. Here are a few positives of the media

A brief look at how twitter can change relationships and interactions.

http://i.imgur.com/V3EVf.jpg (A humorous followup)