Well-being
Tessa Jowell: A live Debate About a Blogging Code of Conduct
Posted May 9th, 2007 by Peter D. Naegele, Oberlin College Department of Psychology
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LINK: http://politicstalk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@424.c9CMbu8k7E9.5@.775e9244/48
Tessa Jowell, the UK secretary of state for culture, media and sport, has weighed in
on the blogging code of conduct debate from a few weeks back, stating
that she welcomes and supports the initiative. From her article "Civility in 'Ourspace' " on The Guardian's website: "The wonderful, anarchic, creative world of the blogosphere shouldn't
be a licence for abuse, bullying and threats as it has been in some
disturbing cases...There is a need for serious discussion about maintaining civilised
parameters for debate, so that more people - and women and older people
in particular - feel comfortable to participate."
Review of "Connecting Technology & Liberal Education: Theories and Case Studies" A NERCOMP event (4/5/06)
Posted September 26th, 2006 by Shel Sax, Middlebury College
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Shel offers this take on a workshop looking at a very broad topic which offered a slight twist as far as NERCOMP workshops go: all of the presenters came from an academic background rather than a technological one. Says Shel, “My interest in the interaction of technology and pedagogy was well met by presentations combining strategic thinking about what constitutes and shapes a liberal arts education and examples of technology being used in the classroom in a traditionally ‘liberal’ manner.”
Interspace: Our Commonly Valued Unknowing
Posted July 25th, 2005 by Michael Joyce, Vassar College
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This thoughtful and somewhat irreverent essay explores the tension between the experience of hypermediation and the ancient need for "interspace," "a space of comity, the constant readjustments, accommodations, and affordances, the measured motion among several interests," as a foundation for thought and human coexistence.
