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Knowledge as Process and as Distribution
Apr. 3, 2017—In the late 1990s, Ronald Deibert’s Parchment, Printing and Hypermedia was published. As a political scientist and media ecologist, Deibert was interested in the ways that new digital technologies would alter power relationships throughout the world by shifting the ways people thought and processed information, as well as the ways information and political power would...
Solar Eclipse!
Jan. 11, 2017—This fall offers an event of a lifetime for many of us at Vanderbilt and in Nashville. At approximately 1:27 p.m., on Monday, August 21, 2017, the Vanderbilt campus will experience 1 minute and 54 seconds of total solar eclipse. That date is also the Monday following move-in day for our students. Although they will...
Digital Literacy
Dec. 12, 2016—December 12, 2016 I’ve been thinking a lot about digital literacy. While the term “digital literacy” is often employed loosely (and with multiple meanings), I understand digital literacy to be the broadest sense of a person’s ability to consume, evaluate, utilize, share, and create content using information technologies. If you search any university’s website, you’ll...
Educational Technology Resource Finder
Aug. 16, 2016—Greetings! Over the course of the last academic year, I asked Ole Molvig to work with the students in the Graduate Fellows Program at the Vanderbilt Institute for Digital Learning to develop a web resource that would help faculty and students at Vanderbilt find their way around the dizzying array of educational technology resources. For...