Counting on Countable

I absolutely love what the folks at Countable are doing to save what’s left of our government. You can get their app for your phone, and you can embed a Continue Reading →
The Homepage of Prof. John B. Wolff
I absolutely love what the folks at Countable are doing to save what’s left of our government. You can get their app for your phone, and you can embed a Continue Reading →
My Educational Philosophy (for Jennifer, Matt, Rebecca, and Natalie) My educational philosophy is informed by at least four influential streams: the centrality of communication; the ideals of a liberal education; Continue Reading →
I was inspired, some months ago, when reading about a group of students at the Fletcher School of Tufts University who worked around the clock with ordinary laptop computers to Continue Reading →
Image via Wikipedia I’m slated to deliver a presentation on the semantic web at the League for Innovation’s annual Conference on Information Technology. As a sneak peek at my focus, Continue Reading →
Image by Lynoure via Flickr From my journal: I don’t understand it really, but I seem always to think about fountain pens. I just love that they work by “breathing” Continue Reading →
Image by *MizzEl*~Elly*-on cloud 9, hope I can catch up! via Flickr Someone recently repeated to me the old saw that “technology is just a tool, not an end in Continue Reading →
Image by KatieL366 via Flickr I am continuing to find the exercises that I require of my students in Second Life to evoke real pangs of suffering and empathy. (You’ll Continue Reading →
Image via Wikipedia I return, in this post, to the ongoing saga of my students’ Second Life exercise, which I called “Metamorphosis” (with apologies to Franz Kafka). If you haven’t Continue Reading →
Image via Wikipedia Commencement Address Delivered May 8, 2009 West Shore Community College Scottville, Michigan Thank you, President Dillon. And greetings graduates, parents, families, friends, faculty, staff, and members of Continue Reading →
Second chances at life do not come very often. People make wrong choices and then end up living the rest of their lives regretting these choices.These people usually live in Continue Reading →