Mark Pesce explains his theory of hyperpolitics: a paradigm shift of political order brough about by hyperconnectivity via cell phones and the WWW.
Wesch's presentation on teaching with 2.0, emphazing engagement rather than tricks.
Grading Online conversations with ideas for a rubric
The Center for History and New Media at George Mason University is sponsoring a research project involving professors scanning rare documents to add to a public domain database. The project, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, will use the Zotero plugin to collect citations and store pages.
The eventual result of the project, called Zotero Commons, could be reduced need need for research trips, Cohen suggested. “I think it’s really going to have an impact on the way that scholarship is done.” Besides original source documents, scholars could upload their own annotations and finding aids to help other researchers, Cohen suggested.